Professor Iyer leads the DEPEND Group at CSL, with a multidisciplinary focus on systems and software that combine deep measurement-driven analytics and machine learning with applications in two important domains: i) trust (that spans resilience and the security of critical infrastructures) and ii) health (that spans computational genomics and health analytics focused on personalized medicine).
The Depend Group has developed a rich AI analytics framework that has been deployed on real-world applications in collaborations with industry, health providers, and government agencies including NSF, NIH, and DoD.
He is also a faculty Research Affiliate at the Mayo Clinic, and a Yeoh Ghin Seng Distinguished Visiting Professor of the National University Health System, Singapore.
He has consulted with and advised major vendors such as IBM, HP, Motorola, SUN, Huawei and Infosys Technologies and government agencies like, DARPA, NASA, the DoD, JPL and CNRS-LAAS; He currently leads the University’s effort to create unique corporate funded offices in India and China.
Iyer is the founder of Armored Computing[7] a profitable Illinois company with worldwide customers including Honeywell, Motorola, Ansaldo Corporation and Huawei.