About Us

The Center for Vedantic Studies is a 501(c)(3) [EIN:99-2140696] nonprofit research and educational organization registered in California, USA. It was officially established in March 2024 to understand and promote Vedantic teachings to address contemporary scientific and social challenges.

We are constantly seeking like-minded people and organizations to collaborate on this journey. If interested, please get in touch with us at vedanticstudies1@gmail.com.

People

Dr. Satya B. Pradhan, Founding Director

Satya Pradhan is a technology professional with a long career in aerospace engineering and computer science. He received a Masters of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India, and a PhD from the Univ of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. Dr. Pradhan has worked in leading networking companies, e.g. Nortel Networks and Cisco Systems in Silicon Valley, California. He is currently working at Google in Sunnyvale, California. Outside his professional work, Dr. Pradhan is passionate about Vedanta and its application to contemporary scientific and social problems.

Dr. Subhada Mishra, Advisor

Subhada Mishra works as a solution architect in the area of semiconductor design and automation. He received a PhD in Computer Science from University of Louisiana at Lafayette and has been working at companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems and Synopsys. Over these years he has worked on products that power the highest selling mobile phones and personal computers and other computing devices. Subhada loves spending time with family and hiking with friends. He is passionate about ideas and effort that drive people to be fair and balanced for a sustainable global future.

Sapan Panigrahi, Advisor

Sapan Panigrahi is a software executive in the San Francisco Bay Area, USA. He has worked on large-scale systems and infrastructure at Sybase, Yahoo, SAP, and Workday and currently works at Oracle. In addition to technology, he has diverse interests in world religions, culture, music, and history. Sapan is specifically interested in understanding the relationship between quality of life and spirituality.

Prof. Ramesh Rao, Advisor

Ramesh Rao is a professor in the Department of Communication at Columbus State University in Columbus, GA. He has taught in the US since 1987, and is the author/co-author of several books on communication studies as well as Indian politics and society. At present, Dr. Rao is also the Chief Editor of India Facts, an online portal devoted to publishing commentaries and analyses of anti-Hindu depictions in media, academia, and society. His op-eds and commentaries have been published in newspapers, magazines, and online portals across the US, Europe, and India.