Subhash Kak

Subhash Kak (born 26 March 1947 in Srinagar) is an Indian American computer scientist and a Hindutva historical revisionist. Kak has been criticised for propagating fringe and revisionist views. He is the Regents Professor of Computer Science Department at Oklahoma State University–Stillwater and has made contributions to cryptography, artificial neural networks, and quantum information. Kak has also published on the history of science, the philosophy of science, ancient astronomy, and the history of mathematics. He is also an honorary visiting professor of engineering at Jawaharlal Nehru University.In 2019, Government of India awarded him with Padma Shri award for science and engineering, the fourth highest civilian award in India.