Rudolf Kruse (born 12 September 1952 in Rotenburg/Wümme) is a German computer scientist and mathematician.
Following a stay at the Fraunhofer Society, in 1986 he joined the University of Braunschweig as a professor of computer science.
From 1996–2017 he was a professor at the Department of Computer Science of the Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg where he has been leading the computational intelligence research group.
His research group was very successful in various industrial applications.
Rudolf Kruse has coauthored 40 books as well as more than 450 refereed technical papers in various scientific areas.