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Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma, formerly Professor of Sanskrit at Aligarh Muslim University, wrote extensively on history of science in India. Born in Andhra Pradesh in 1937, he studied Sanskrit at Santiniketan and Indology in Germany, where he earned his Ph.D. from Philipps Universitat, Marburg, for his thesis on a tenth century Sanskrit astronomical text. He has been a fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service at the universities of Marburg and Frankfurt; visiting associate professor at Brown University, Providence; visiting professor at the Universite de Paris III and at Kyoto University. For over a decade he has been surveying Indian astronomical and time-measuring instruments presented in India and abroad. He visited more than seventy-five museums and private collections in India, Belgium Germany. France, the Netherlands, UK and USA and identified some 400 Indian instruments. A descriptive catalogue of these instruments is in preparation.

Takanori Kusuba, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Osaka University of Economics, published, Jointly with Professor David, Arabic Astronomy in Sanskrit: Al-Birjandi on Tadhkira II, Chapter 11 and its Sanskrit Translation. Currently he is preparing a critical edition and translation of Narayana Pandita’s Ganitakaumudi.

Takao Hayashi, Professor of History of Science at Doshisha University, Kyoto, wrote extensively on the history of Indian mathematics and translated Bhaskara;s Livavati into Japanese. He was awarded the Salomom Reinach Foundation Prize by the Institute de France, Paris, in 2001 for The Bakhshali Manuscript: An Ancient Mathematical Treatise.

Michio Yano, Professor and Dean of the faculty of Cultural Studies at the Kyoto Sangyo University and the chief editor of SCIAMVS, published several studies on Indology and History of science, including Japanese translation of Aryabhata’s Aryabhatiya, Varahamihira’s Brhatsahita and the Carakasamhita ( Sutrasthana).