Mamidala Jagadesh Kumar (born 1962) is an Indian academic, electrical engineer and education administrator.

[4][5] Kumar was born in Mamidala village in Tipparthi mandal, Nalgonda district, Telangana.

He did his Masters and PhD in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, followed by post doctoral research at University of Waterloo, Canada.

[2] He was selected as the Vice-Chancellor of Jawaharlal Nehru University from among four others including Rameshwar Nath Koul Bamezai, Virander Singh Chauhan and Ramakrishna Ramaswamy.

Critics say that he is "implementing the agenda of the RSS", the reason why he has been made VC in the first place.