Krzysztof Stefan Kulpa (born April 13, 1958) – Polish electronics engineer, university lecturer, professor since 2014.

He studied at the Faculty of Electronics, Warsaw University of Technology, graduating in 1982. From 1985 to 1988 he worked as an assistant at the Institute of Electronics Fundamentals, Warsaw University of Technology. He defended his doctorate at his home faculty in 1987, after which he was an assistant professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Białystok University of Technology, from 1988 to 1990, after which he moved to the position of assistant professor at the Institute of Electronic Systems, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Warsaw University of Technology. Also in 1990, he began working as a scientific consultant at WZR RAWAR and worked there until 2005. From 1999 he worked at the NATO Science and Technology Organization, leading research groups and lecture series, mainly in the Sensors and Electronics Technology Panel. In 2009, he completed his habilitation at his alma mater, and in subsequent years, he assumed positions including the position of Scientific Director of the University’s Defense and Security Research Center. In 2014, President Bronisław Komorowski awarded him a professorship. In 2025, he became a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.

His research interests include digital signal processing, primarily in radar applications, tracking maneuvering objects on 2D and 3D radars, detecting small surface objects by coastal radars and radars on flying platforms, and passive and noise radars. The results of his research and studies have been applied in products for the radar industry, including the first Polish SAR radar. He is the author of over 500 articles on radar technology, including over 100 on passive radars. He has been awarded the Medal of the National Education Commission, the Gold Cross of Merit (2017), the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta, and the Gold Medal “For Merit to National Defense.” He is also a recipient of the SET Panel Excellence Award (four times) and was the first Pole to be awarded the von Kármán Medal.

A member of the Microwave and Radiolocation Section of the Committee on Electronics and Telecommunications of the Polish Academy of Sciences. From 2002 to 2005, he served as the chairman of the Polish chapter of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.