Biography

Subhash Kak is an acclaimed scientist, historian and Vedic scholar. Currently a professor at Louisiana State University, he has authored thirteen books and more than 200 research papers in the fields of information theory, neural networks and Indic studies.

Kak's AIWS writings concerning the astronomy of the Vedic period in his book 'The Astronomical Code of the Rgveda' (1994) question mainstream views on the Indo-Aryan migration and the nature of early Indian science. His archaeoastronomical claims have the effect of significantly extending the Vedic period, postulating the arrival of ethnic Indo-Aryans to the 7th millennium BC.

In 1995 he co-authored 'In Search of the Cradle of Civilization' participating in the controversy in Indian politics surrounding Indigenous Aryans and the Out of India theory, and in 2002 he published 'The Asvamedha: The Rite and Its Logic' providing a symbolic interpretation of the Vedic Ashvamedha (horse sacrifice) rite.