Dr.Sivaram Sivasubramanian
Since January 2025, I am pursuing an independent career as a Researcher and Technology Compliance Consultant. This model represents a thrilling opportunity to support my growth as I gradually aspire to become a full-time researcher while still contributing to technology compliance. I am deeply committed to serving as a knowledge steward, a mission I hold dear, by providing unwavering support, encouragement, and mentorship to individuals, helping them to see research as a transformative journey. I envision contributing to digital humanities, integrating learning analytics in research, advancing public policy around UN SDG target 9.5, and supplementing efforts on improving the underrepresentation of countries and communities in global research output.
With a journey from a masters in Chemistry to a fulfilling career in Cyber Security to a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies, I aspire to bring in a dimension of transdisciplinarity to the thoughts, discussions, and projects that I either lead or part of.
I worked in the capacity of Principal, Compliance at BHP (a leading global resources company) based in Bangalore, India from Oct 2020 to Nov 2024. Initially, I joined this role as a consultant from June 2019 to Sep 2020.
With a deep interest in rationally understanding scriptures, I enrolled for a PhD program in Fall 2017 at the Dept of Cultural Studies, JAIN (deemed-to-be University) in Bangalore under the guidance of Prof.Dr. Rajani Jairam. I successfully completed PhD defence in a public vivavoce on 15th Sep 2023 and formally awarded the PhD degree at the 13th Annual Convocation of JGI which was held on 22nd Nov 2023. My PhD topic focused on an area at the confluence of physical cosmology and ancient Indian scriptures.
I have over 20 years of experience as a Cyber Security Professional focusing on Technology, Audit, Business Continuity, Information Security Risk Management, SOx-DPA-GDPR-HIPAA Tech Control Compliance. I focus on creativity and innovation at everyday work and am one of the inventors for a patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on ‘compliance control framework’ (US Patent No: 7,865,382) and was a Recipient of Accenture Inventor Award in 2011 for this invention.
I obtained a MSc in Chemistry from IIT Chennai in 1997.
With a journey from a masters in Chemistry to a fulfilling career in Cyber Security to a doctoral degree in Cultural Studies, I aspire to bring in a dimension of transdisciplinarity to the thoughts, discussions, and projects that I either lead or part of.
I worked in the capacity of Principal, Compliance at BHP (a leading global resources company) based in Bangalore, India from Oct 2020 to Nov 2024. Initially, I joined this role as a consultant from June 2019 to Sep 2020.
With a deep interest in rationally understanding scriptures, I enrolled for a PhD program in Fall 2017 at the Dept of Cultural Studies, JAIN (deemed-to-be University) in Bangalore under the guidance of Prof.Dr. Rajani Jairam. I successfully completed PhD defence in a public vivavoce on 15th Sep 2023 and formally awarded the PhD degree at the 13th Annual Convocation of JGI which was held on 22nd Nov 2023. My PhD topic focused on an area at the confluence of physical cosmology and ancient Indian scriptures.
I have over 20 years of experience as a Cyber Security Professional focusing on Technology, Audit, Business Continuity, Information Security Risk Management, SOx-DPA-GDPR-HIPAA Tech Control Compliance. I focus on creativity and innovation at everyday work and am one of the inventors for a patent issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office on ‘compliance control framework’ (US Patent No: 7,865,382) and was a Recipient of Accenture Inventor Award in 2011 for this invention.
I obtained a MSc in Chemistry from IIT Chennai in 1997.
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potential for application in incorporating ethics into the entrepreneurial
culture of technological start-ups comprehensively. Current scholarship on
ethical concepts in Hindu texts suggests that more efforts are needed to
apply these concepts to businesses, including technology start-ups.
Furthermore, the Bhagavad Gita is the most common reference and
preferred anchor in contemporary conversations about business ethics. The need for this study works at this convergence, with the need for the
application of scriptural ethical notions on the one hand and interpretation
of texts beyond the Bhagavad Gita on the other. Thus, this research paper
analyzes various genres within Hindu literature utilizing pramaanas as a
source of knowledge to provide significant insights into ethics for
technological start-ups. Based on the findings, this paper proposes a novel schema encompassing people, processes, business offerings, and technology. This research attempt envisages that such a model can be essential in advancing a holistic approach to embedding ethics while striving for excellence in ethical conduct. Consequently, the authors assert that the new approach discussed in this paper can help technology start-ups navigate the “right versus wrong” and “collective versus individual good” ethical balance more effectively in a fresh perspective, augmenting their current efforts. Finally, as a future potential, this research endeavor presents a persuasive case for re-examining ancient Indian scriptures in a modern context that looks beyond conventional wisdom to benefit the third millennium more broadly. At the same time, this work also allows yet another opportunity to appreciate India's rich intellectual and cultural heritage.
Conference Presentations by Dr.Sivaram Sivasubramanian
Through this paper, the authors illustrate that harnessing scriptural insight in virtue ethics is possible across all four dimensions of research – content, context, culture, and communication. This work has synthesized and organized the wisdom from select texts into various areas beneficial for researchers. By combining this knowledge with contemporary practices and a practical problem-solving method of examining ethical concerns with causes and countermeasures, authors propose a holistic 'virtues-based ethical decision model.' This paper also reinforces the role of virtue ethics as a catalyst in achieving self-actualization and wellbeing, two essential goals of all researchers.
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As the world slowly resumes normalcy from the extended lockdown, it is not surprising to expect the effects of the pandemic to remain far longer. With the impact of this crisis being multidimensional - from humanity to science to economy to governance, the "new normal" can manifest in many ways from the practice of self-hygiene to behavioral to societal health to steward leadership. Therefore, the COVID-19 situation has presented another opportunity in human history for people from all walks of life to collectively reflect in finding suitable solutions for a swift recuperation. Such an approach can potentially include a sensible reconsideration of ancient wisdom that can complement current global efforts and make them more comprehensive. This paper seeks to follow this line of thought and presents a careful reappraisal of Vedic Literature by selectively focusing on certain portions of Samhitas and Upanishads to deduce practical notions that could be of value today. Paper contends that such scriptural wisdom, combined with transformative approaches that many currently use, can proffer a more credible headstart for future generations in handling similar adversity with a greater determination.
The purpose of this paper is to understand how Upanishads have dealt with fundamental thoughts on creator, creation and causal relationship between them. For the scope of this paper, authors have considered six principal Upanishads associated with Krishna and Shukla Yajur Veda. Authors reckon these Yajur vedic upanishads provide adequate opportunities for research using various pramaanas, namely pratyaksha; anumaana; upamaana; arthaapatthi; anupalabhdhi and abhaava. In this paper, authors examine the theological (that focuses on the nature of creator) and cosmological (that focuses on the nature of creation) aspects explained in the selected Upanishads and critically analyze them to look for a possible convergence. Through this paper, authors would like to highlight the need for an approach that not only explores plausible congruence between theology and cosmology, but also prospect for convergence. Authors contend that implications of convergence would be considerable and could mutually benefit research pursuits in both these areas.
Consciousness can be defined as the state of awareness of one’s existence through sentience, the ability to feel, perceive and experience subjectively. Ancient philosophical text and yoga treatise, Yoga Vasista, has documented in great details about consciousness and elucidated its connection with body and mind and hence on yoga, pranayama and meditation. Recent scientific researches in the context of biology and psychology, have not only substantiated the existence of consciousness but also have helped us better understand how yoga and meditation can positively impact consciousness. Objectives of this paper are, a) to provide an overview on important philosophical and yogical aspects of consciousness as described in Yoga Vasista, and b) to present a brief on some of the recent scientific and psychological researches on consciousness.