Florida International University

S. S. Iyengar

Distinguished University Professor, Ryder Professor

Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences

Keywords

Protocol Security Analysissystems security analysisformal methods
malware analysiscryptographyinformation theory
coding theory authentication machine/deep learning
game theoryreverse engineering digital forensics process
zero-knowledge proofs consensus algorithms graph theory
user studies/surveys organizational behavior.

Biography

Dr. S.S. Iyengar is a Distinguished University Professor and Ryder Professor of Computer Science at Florida International University (FIU), Miami, and the founding director of the Discovery Lab. Previously, he served as the Roy Paul Daniels Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science department at Louisiana State University for over 20 years. He has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions including Oak Ridge National Lab, Jet Propulsion Lab, IISc, IGCAR, University of Paris, Tsinghua University, and KAIST.

Dr. Iyengar’s research spans High-Performance Algorithms, Biomedical Computing, Sensor Fusion, and Intelligent Systems, supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, DOE/ORNL, NASA, and other agencies. Notably, he has developed computational methods for cancer genome research and patented a low-cost device for early glaucoma intervention. He has authored over 500 research papers and 22 books, with significant contributions like the Brooks-Iyengar Algorithm.