Kumble R. Subbaswamy

Kumble Subbaswamy
11th Chancellor of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
In office
July 1, 2012  June 30, 2023
Preceded byRobert C. Holub
Succeeded byJavier Reyes
Personal details
BornBangalore, India
EducationBangalore University (BS)
University of Delhi (MS)
Indiana University, Bloomington (PhD)

Kumble R. Subbaswamy is an Indian physicist and college administrator who served as the 11th chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He currently serves as Interim Senior Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs and Equity, serving the five-campus University of Massachusetts system. He formerly served as the provost of University of Kentucky.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and also an elected fellow of the American Physical Society, and has research interests in computational chemistry and condensed matter physics.

On June 2, 2022, Subbaswamy announced that he would retire from being the chancellor by the end of June 2023.