Sati Shankar
Founder — Global Synergetic Foundation
ORCID: 0000-0003-4638-1745
Sati Shankar (Sati Shankar Dutta Pandey, Ph.D.) is an independent Indian scholar and applied mathematician whose research investigates structural relationships between classical intellectual traditions and contemporary theoretical sciences.
He founded the Global Synergetic Foundation (GSFN) in 1992 as an interdisciplinary research and publishing initiative based in New Delhi, India.
He is the principal author of the research programme represented in the Astitva Archive, an open scholarly publication platform (ISSN 2454-602X) dedicated to interdisciplinary research examining the conceptual foundations of knowledge, existence, and consciousness.
Academic Formation
He received his Bachelor's degree in 1981 (First Class First in Institution) from the University of Gorakhpur with studies in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Psychology, Philosophy, and Symbolic Logic.
He pursued postgraduate studies in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics at Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, receiving his Master's degree in 1983 as First in Order of Merit and recipient of both the Wagle Gold Medal and the BHU Gold Medal.
His doctoral research (Ph.D., BHU, 1991) examined intersections between Mathematical Control Systems, the Economics of Information, and Psycho-physiological Behavioural Science.
Research Orientation
His research investigates conceptual structures embedded in Vedic knowledge traditions and explores their philosophical significance for contemporary discussions in mathematics, cognition, cosmology, and philosophy of science.
The work combines close textual analysis of Vedic and classical Indian sources with systematic philosophical and analytical reasoning.
Astitva → Vedic-Hṛdaya-Cakṣu → Svagarbhā → Astitva
The intellectual framework of this work is outlined in the Research Programme of the Global Synergetic Foundation.
Scholarly Identifiers
| Registry | Identifier |
|---|---|
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4638-1745 |
| ISNI | 0000 0005 2727 9715 |
| VIAF | 96175412862703712037 |
| Personal Website | www.satishankar.in |