Автор: Jerry F. Miller

Dr. S. S. “Ram” Iyengar is currently a Distinguished University Professor and a former Director of the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at FIU, Miami, Florida. He is also the founding director of the Discovery Lab, an undergraduate lab for mentoring students in research. Prior to joining FIU, Dr. Iyengar was Roy Paul Daniel”s Distinguished Professor and Chairman of the Computer Science department at Louisiana State University for over 20 years. During the last four decades, he has supervised and mentored over 55 Ph.D. students, more than 100 Master”s students, and many undergraduate students who are now faculty at major universities worldwide, as well as scientists or engineers at national labs and industries around the world. He has published more than 500 research papers, and authored, co-authored, or edited 22 books. Dr. Iyengar is a member of the European Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Society for Design and Process Science (SDPS), the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) and the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE).