Faculty - Prof. Andrew Foss
Professor Andrew Foss has an MA from Oxford University, UK, an MSc from the University of Alberta and is completing a Ph.D. in Computing Science at Alberta. He is the editor of the journal Gochara and President and co-founder of the British Association for Vedic Astrology and a faculty member of the American College of Vedic Astrology.
His special research interest is in the medical applications of his new techniques. He has published a number of papers in data mining and software engineering. Previously he worked for the Royal Greenwich Observatory (UK) where he co-authored a research report in the leading scientific journal Nature, entitled 'Is there a 10th Planet?' He has worked on the relationship of fundamental physics and consciousness, established a research center in Hong Kong and extensively studied Yoga, Jyotish and Ayur-veda in India. He did a critical assessment of scientific papers on 'meditation' resulting in the production of 3,000 pages of collected papers. He has developed the leading Vedic Astrology software 'Śrī Jyoti Star', which is widely used by persons in all five continents. He has developed an automatic clustering algorithm that may prove useful in, amongst other things, helping process the large numbers of palm-leaf manuscripts held by Indian universities and institutions. He has lectured on Jyotish and other aspects of Vedic science throughout the world.
