Subhash Kak
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Subhash Kak at the Inner Science Seminar at Conoco Phillips Hall in Stillwater, Oklahoma
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March 26, 1947 Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India |
| Alma mater | NIT Srinagar, IIT Delhi |
| Occupation | Computer Scientist |
| Known for | Cryptography, Instantaneously trained neural networks, Kak's three-stage protocol, Quantum information, History of science |
| Notable credit(s) | Author of In Search of the Cradle of Civilization, The Architecture of Knowledge |
| Website | www |
Subhash Kak (born March 26, 1947 in Srinagar) is an Indian American computer scientist. He is Regents Professor and a previous Head of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater who has made contributions to cryptography, artificial neural networks, and quantum information.
Kak is also notable for his Indological publications on the history of science, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics.Alan Sokal labeled Kak "one of the leading intellectual luminaries of the Hindu-nationalist diaspora."
His brother is the computer scientist Avinash Kak.
Subhash Kak completed his BE from Regional Engineering College, Srinagar (Presently National Institute of Technology, Srinagar) and Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in 1970. He taught there. During 1975-1976, he was a visiting faculty at Imperial College, London, and a guest researcher at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill. In 1977, he was a visiting researcher at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay. In 1979 joined Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where he was the Donald C. and Elaine T. Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2007, he joined the Computer Science department at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater.
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