Ravishankar K Iyer

Ravishankar K. Iyer is the George and Ann Fisher Distinguished Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, holding appointments in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL), National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), Carle Illinois College of Medicine, and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. He is also a Research Affiliate at Mayo Clinic and Yeoh Ghin Seng Visiting Professor at National University Health System, Singapore. His work bridges

• Dependable and secure systems
• Computational genomics
• Health analytics
• Machine learning
• AI in personalized medicine

His research focuses on systems and software combining deep measurement-driven analytics and machine learning for applications in critical infrastructure resilience, healthcare cybersecurity, and genomic medicine. Key article trends include

• Smart grid security frameworks
• EEG-based cognitive modeling
• Pharmacogenomic drug response prediction
• Hardware/software fault tolerance
• Malware detection in autonomous systems
• Genomic data analysis

Scientific accolades include Fellowships in AAAS, IEEE, and ACM, the IEEE Emanuel R. Piore Award, ACM Outstanding Contributions Award, and an Honorary Doctorate from Toulouse Sabatier University. He leads the DEPEND Group at CSL and directs the NSF-funded Illinois/Mayo Center for Computational Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine.