Vinay V Kumar is a clinician, researcher, and educator in the field of implantology, oral and maxillofacial surgery. He has practicing licenses in India and Germany and is an adjunct specialist faculty at Division of Odontology and Maxillofacial Surgery, Uppsala University, Sweden.

He completed his dentistry from Bangalore (1998- 2003) and did masters in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery from Nair Hospital Dental College, Mumbai (2008). He did his Dr. med dent. from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany (2013) and went on to MD & PhD in Molecular Mechanisms of Regenerative Processes at the department of Immunology, Medical University of Rostock, Germany (2019). He received his Dr. rerum humanarum with magna-cum-laude in 2019.
He was an ITI Scholar (2010) at Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany; director of the ITI Study Club Bangalore (2011) and has been an ITI Fellow since 2012. He is the recipient of the Andre Schroeder Clinical Research Prize in 2017, for the research on implant rehabilitation post maxillofacial reconstruction.

He is the recipient of 6 competitive scholarships, 8 peer reviewed research grants, lectured internationally, has over 50 Pubmed indexed journal publications, and can speak seven languages.

Currently he is the co-director of Oral Rehabilitation Center, a state-of-the-art facility catering towards complex dental rehabilitation needs in Bangalore, India.