Dirk Pieter Kroese (born 1963) is a Dutch-Australian mathematician and statistician, and Professor at the University of Queensland.

He is known for several contributions to applied probability, kernel density estimation, Monte Carlo methods and rare-event simulation.

Born in Wapenveld (municipality of Heerde), Dirk Kroese received his MSc (Netherlands Ingenieur (ir) degree) in 1986 and his Ph.D. (cum laude) in 1990, both from the Department of Applied Mathematics at the University of Twente.

[2] Kroese's work spans a wide range of topics in applied probability and mathematical statistics, including telecommunication networks, reliability engineering, point processes, kernel density estimation, Monte Carlo methods, rare-event simulation, cross-entropy methods, randomized optimization, and machine learning.

He is a Chief Investigator of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers (ACEMS).