Dr. Subhash Kak is an Indian-American computer scientist, theoretical physicist, historian, Indologist, Vedic scholar, linguist, philosopher, and poet. He is Regents Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater and a member of the India Prime Minister's Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC).

In 2019, Dr. Kak was awarded the Padma Shri, India's 4th highest civilian award, for his immense contributions in multiple areas of expertise.

Dr. Kak's scientific research has spanned the fields of information theory, cryptography, neural networks, quantum information, and theoretical physics. He is one of the pioneers of quantum learning. He coined the term "quantum neural computing" which is a theory of consciousness that is partly classical and partly quantum.

He has authored and co-authored at least thirty books including In Search of the Cradle of Civilization (1995), Matter and Mind (2016), and The Astronomical Code of the Rgveda (3rd edition, 2016); The Idea of India: Bharat as a Civilisation (2023), and Eternal Bharat: Truth, The Vedic Tradition. Motilal Banarsidass, 2025; The Saka Language and Sanskrit. Aditya Prakashan, 2025; The Age of Artificial Intelligence. Garuda, New Delhi, 2024.

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