Kumar Murty is an Indo-Canadian mathematician who obtained his BSc in 1977 from Carleton University and his PhD in mathematics in 1982 from Harvard University.

He is currently head of the mathematics department at the University of Toronto. His research area is number theory. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 1995. In 1996, he, along with his brother, M. Ram Murty, received the Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize for the book "Non-vanishing of L-functions and their applications." The Murty brothers have written more than 20 joint papers In a book edited by Alex Michalos, there is a description of how the Murty brothers learned mathematics in their teens. Murty received the Coxeter–James Prize in 1991 from the Canadian Mathematical

Professor Kumar Murty is the Chair of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Toronto. His research fields are Analytic Number Theory, Algebraic Number Theory, Arithmetic Algebraic Geometry and Information Security. He is the founder of the GANITA lab, co-founder of Prata Technologies and PerfectCloud. His interest in mathematics ranges from the pure study of the subject to its applications in data and information security.Society.