Faculty - Prof. B. V. Venkatakrishna Sastry, Ph.D

Dr. B.V. VenkataKrishna Sastry is a full-time faculty member at HU. He has a Doctoral degree in Sanskrit language, training in the traditional South Indian Vedic priestly services, astrology, vastu and yoga meditation disciplines. He is a language technologist, promoting Vedic Sanskrit modeled digital technology solutions as a non-roman script initiative for text encoding in these areas: Human Computing, Online education of classical Sanskrit language, Education of Hinduism, Intelligent systems, NLP speech solutions, multilingual multimodal interfaces, and digital libraries. He is the founder-director of International Sanskrit Research Academy, and an adjunct faculty at Florida International University. His current research includes South Indian secret yoga tradition Vak-yoga (Spiritual linguistics) from Sanskrit grammar and Srividya Tantra works. He can be contacted at - sastry_bvk@hua.edu

Teaching Courses

• HUC 5001 - Principles of Hinduism
• HUC 5002 - Practices of Hinduism
• HUC 5003 - Basic Sanskrit
• YPM 5203 - Spiritual Linguistics
• YPM 5001 - Patanjali Yoga Darshana