Biography

Dr. Himanshu Asnani is an author, translator, and researcher.

His debut work in fiction—Horizons—released in May 2023 by Hachette India, is a collection of short stories on fundamental questions around life and death. His next work—The Forest of Love—a historical novel set in 16th century Mughal India—is expected to be released in 2025 by Fingerprint. It is coming-of-age saga of love, war, escape, and self-discovery against the backdrop of bhakti renaissance.

A connoisseur of literature, linguistics, and classical music, he actively researches in the areas of philosophy, social psychology, and history, and travels to keenly interact with community, corporate and university audiences in India and abroad through seminars and workshops. He is also involved in English and vernacular translation of ancient Sanskrit wisdom texts.

Previously he held full-time faculty appointment in the School of Technology and Computer Science (STCS) at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai and visiting appointments at the University of Washington-Seattle, Stanford University, and IIT Bombay. His research interests in academia included artificial intelligence, machine learning, information theory and statistics. He had received his B.Tech. from IIT Bombay (IIT JEE Mains All India Rank 4, IIT JEE Screening All India Rank 1) and M.S. and PhD from Stanford University, all in Electrical Engineering. After his post-graduation he worked in Corporate America (Ericsson Silicon Valley) following which he got involved in some of his edu-startups (currently Aveti Learning) which especially focussed on fostering education in underprivileged areas with minimal access to English, Internet, and Electricity. His awards include Stanford Graduate Fellowship, Marconi Society Paul Baran Young Scholar Award, Amazon Catalyst Fellowship and Bronze Medalist in the International Chemistry Olympiad.