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Lecturer University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
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Professor Iyer is the George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He holds joint appointments in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) and the Department of Computer Science. He also serves as Director of the Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing at Illinois and as Chief Scientist of the Information Trust Institute.
Prof Iyer’s research contributions have led to major advances in the design and validation of dependable computing systems. He has authored or co-authored close to three hundred refereed publications, graduated over 35 PhD students and many Masters students. He currently leads the Trusted Illiac project at Illinois. Funded by both Industry and government, the project is developing adaptive, application-aware architectures for supporting a wide range of dependability and security requirements.
Iyer is also the founder of Armored Computing Inc. a profitable Illinois company with worldwide customers including Honeywell, Motorola, and Huawei.
Professor Iyer is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the IEEE, and the ACM. He has received several awards, including the Humboldt Foundation Senior Distinguished Scientist Award for excellence in research and teaching, the AIAA Information Systems Award and Medal for “fundamental and pioneering contributions towards the design, evaluation, and validation of dependable aerospace computing systems,” and the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award “for fundamental contributions to measurement, evaluation, and design of reliable computing systems.” Professor Iyer is also the recipient of the degree of Doctor Honaris Causa from France’s Sabatier University of Toulouse in recognition of his outstanding research contributions in dependable computing and for longstanding contributions to joint research LAAS/CNRS in Toulouse. He was recently awarded the 2011 Outstanding Contributions award by the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM)- Special Interest Group on Security and Audit (SIGSAC) for his fundamental and far-reaching contributions in secure and dependable computing systems.