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{{Infobox scientist<br />
| name = [[Hiremagalur]] Krishnaswamy Kesavan<br />
| image = HKKesavan2002.jpg<br />
| image_size = 180px<br />
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1926|6|14}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Bangalore]], Mysore State (now [[Karnataka]]), India<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2014|11|26|1926|6|14}}<br />
| death_place = [[Waterloo, Ontario]], Canada <br />
| field = [[Electrical engineering]]<br />[[Systems theory]]<br />[[Information theory]]<br />
| alma_mater = [[University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering]]<br />[[University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]]<br />[[Michigan State University]]<br />
| workplaces = [[Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur]]<br />[[University of Waterloo]]<br />
| doctoral_advisor = Herman E. Koenig<br />
| doctoral_students= <br />
| known_for = [[Linear graph theory]], entropy optimization<br />
| prizes = <br />
}}<br />
'''Hiremagalur Krishnaswamy Kesavan''', known as '''H. K. Kesavan''' (14 June 1926 – 26 November 2014), was an Indian professor in the Faculty of Engineering at the [[University of Waterloo]], Ontario, Canada.<br />
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==Early life and education==<br />
H.K. Kesavan was born on 14 June 1926 in Bangalore, India, to a [[Hebbar Iyengar]] family.<ref name="IRE Transactions on Education 1961">[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=4322205 ''IRE Transactions on Education''], Vol. 4, Issue 3, pub. Sept. 1961, p. 128 (visited 26 November 2014)</ref> He 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]]. He received his M.S. degree from the [[University of Illinois]] in 1956 and his Ph.D. from [[Michigan State University]] in 1959, both in electrical engineering. He was an instructor at Michigan State from 1956 to 1959, and assistant professor in 1959–1960.<ref name="IRE Transactions on Education 1961"/><br />
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==Career==<br />
===Early career, 1960-1963===<br />
In 1960, he was appointed as associate professor at the [[University of Waterloo]],<ref name="IRE Transactions on Education 1961"/> eventually serving as chairman of the Electrical Engineering department. During this time, he also spent a year back at Michigan State where he finished co-authoring his first book, ''Analysis of Discrete Physical Systems'', co-authored with Herman Koenig and Yilmaz Tokad and published several years later.<ref>''Analysis of Discrete Physical Systems'', H. E. Koenig, H. K. Kesavan, and Y. Tokad, McGraw-Hill (1967)</ref><br />
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===IIT Kanpur, 1964-1968===<br />
For a period of five years, he returned to India to serve as the first chairman of Electrical Engineering at the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]] and concurrently as head of its nationally significant Computer Centre. He was also the first Dean of Research and Development at the IIT.<ref>See generally ''An Eye for Excellence: Fifty Innovative Years of IIT Kanpur'' by E. C. Subbarao, HarperCollins (2008). A picture of Prof. Kesavan giving a tour of the Computer Centre to Indian Prime Minister [[Indira Gandhi]] on 17 September 1966 appears on p. 276.</ref><br />
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===Waterloo, 1968-1991===<br />
He returned to Waterloo to serve as the founding chairman of the Department of Systems Design engineering. He has published numerous technical papers and books on [[systems theory]], applications of [[linear graph theory]] and [[entropy]] optimization principles.<br />
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==Science and philosophy==<br />
Kesavan maintained a lifelong 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.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}}<br />
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==External links==<br />
* [https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/facts-and-arguments/lives-lived-hiremagalur-k-kesavan-88/article24486824/ H.K. Kesavan remembrance], ''The Globe and Mail'', 20 May 2015<br />
* [http://sites.google.com/site/hkkesavan/hk-kesavan-publications Books and papers (up to 1992) by H.K. Kesavan]<br />
* [http://www.hkkesavan.com Memorial website (contains extended biography)]<br />
* [http://www.spiritualeducation.org/people/H.%20K.%20Kesavan H.K. Kesavan biography] from the Spiritual Heritage Education Network<br />
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