| Hiremagalur Krishnaswamy Kesavan | |
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| Born | Bangalore, Karnataka |
| Fields | Electrical Engineering Systems Theory Information Theory |
| Institutions | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur University of Waterloo |
| Alma mater | University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Michigan State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Herman E. Koenig |
| Doctoral students | Numerous |
| Known for | Electrical engineering, Systems theory, Linear graph theory, Entropy optimization |
H.K. Kesavan (Hiremagalur Krishnaswamy Kesavan) is Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
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Kesavan received his undergraduate degrees in science and engineering from the Central College and the Government Engineering College (now called University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering) in Bangalore and his postgraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois and Michigan State University.
During his career, he has served as chairman of Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, and later as the founding chairman of the Department of Systems Design engineering. In between for a period of five years, he served as chairman of Electrical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and concurrently as head of its Computer Centre. He was also the first Dean of Research and Development at the IIT. He has published numerous technical papers and books on systems theory, applications of linear graph theory and entropy optimization principles.
Kesavan has maintained a life-long interest in the philosophical aspects of science. His book, Science and Spirituality presents a global view of Vedic philosophy from the insights that science and spirituality provide.