Rangasami L. Kashyap
Rangasami L. Kashyap | |
|---|---|
| Born | 28 March 1938 |
| Died | November 11, 2022 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | Harvard University Indian Institute of Science University of Mysore |
| Awards | Padma Shri (2021) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Pattern recognition |
| Institutions | Purdue University |
| Thesis | Pattern Classification and Switching Theory |
| Doctoral advisor | Yu-Chi Ho |
Rangasami Lakshminarayan Kashyap (born 28 March 1938 - died 11 November 2022) was an Indian applied mathematician and a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Purdue University.
He developed (with Harvard professor Yu-Chi Ho) the Ho-Kashyap rule, an important result (algorithm) in pattern recognition.
In 1982, he presented the Kashyap information criterion (KIC) to select the best model from a set of mathematical candidate models with different numbers of unknown parameters. These parameters are adjusted to adapt the models to data (observations) that have trends and statistical variation in the measured values.
He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the International Association for Pattern Recognition, and the Indian Institute of Electronic and Telecommunication Engineers.
In the field of Vedic studies, he has made contribution including the complete translation into English all the four major and most ancient collection of verses in Sanskrit namely Rigveda Samhita, Krishna Yajurveda Samhita, and Samaveda, and Atharvaveda, consisting together of about 25000 metrical verses in the Sanskrit of Vedas (different from classical Sanskrit).
Kashyap is the only person in the world to translate all the 4 vedas recognizing his achievement he was honored by the Govt. of India with the prestigious Padma Shri award in 2021 under the Literature and Education field.
Selected publications
Thesis
- Rangasami L. Kashyap at the Mathematics Genealogy Project ; 1965 ; Thesis title is Pattern Classification and Switching Theory ; Doctoral advisor was Yu-Chi Ho
Articles
- Kashyap, R.L. 1982; Optimal choice of AR and MA parts in autoregressive moving average models; Article printed in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI); Published by IEEE; March 1982; volume PAMI-4(2); pages 99–104; doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1982.4767213
- Ho, Y.C. and Kashyap, R.L. 1965; An algorithm for linear inequalities and its applications; Article printed in IEEE Trans. Electron. Comput.; Published by IEEE; 1965; volume 14 (5); pages 683–688; http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?4038553 ; doi:10.1109/PGEC.1965.264207 ; Access date 19 May 2008
