page_title: Avinash Kak
hierarchical_section_title: Avinash Kak
caption_attribution_description: English: avinash kak
context_page_description: Avinash C. Kak is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has conducted pioneering research in several areas of information processing. His most noteworthy contributions deal with algorithms, languages, and systems related to networks, robotics, and computer vision. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, he was educated at College of Engineering, Guindy and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1971.
  His brother is the computer scientist Subhash Kak and sister the literary theorist Jaishree Odin.
context_section_description: Avinash C. Kak (born 1944) is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University who has conducted pioneering research in several areas of information processing. His most noteworthy contributions deal with algorithms, languages, and systems related to networks (including sensor networks), robotics, and computer vision. Born in Srinagar, Kashmir, he was educated at College of Engineering, Guindy and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He joined the faculty of Purdue University in 1971.
  His brother is the computer scientist Subhash Kak and sister the literary theorist Jaishree Odin.
caption: Kak in 2016
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