Prof. Adrian V. Gheorghe, the Editor of IJSSE, a world-renowned systems scientist, as well as holder of the prestigious Batten Endowed Chair on System of Systems Engineering and Professor of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering with the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering at Old Dominion University, Virginia, USA, said:

“We at IJSSE are honored to bring this incredible work to the world of systems and medicine. This work demonstrates the power of a systems engineering approach to reveal the invariance of foundational engineering principles, across both cultural and temporal scales spanning 5,000 years.”

Rudolph Tanzi, Joseph P. and Rose F. Kennedy Professor of Neurology at Harvard University, and Director of the Genetics and Aging Research Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, who attended the Conference said:

“This discovery is not based on a reductionist medical approach but on an engineering systems approach, and conclusively ends the age-old debate on whether Ayurveda and Siddha have scientific integrity. This ‘Rosetta Stone’ provides a much-needed gateway across east and west, ancient and modern, science and tradition, to illuminate western scientists and the modern world to the scientific foundation of Siddha and Ayurveda.”

Dr. Deborah J. Nightingale, former Director of the MIT’s Sociotechnical Systems Research Center and Professor of Practice in Engineering Systems and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT for nearly 17 years, said:

“This is a seminal paper that unequivocally proves the scientific basis of Ayurveda and Siddha. The research demonstrates that the ancient scientists of India, over 5,000 years ago, independent of the Western world, discovered principles of systems science, the underpinnings of Ayurveda and Siddha as well as the underpinnings of modern systems engineering principles (which were defined by the West in the 1930s) that govern modern technologies from the thermostat to the spacecraft, as well as the functioning of the human body.”