Background
Iyengar, Arun K. Son of Raja M. and Chung Wha L. Iyengar.
Iyengar, Arun K. Son of Raja M. and Chung Wha L. Iyengar.
Bachelor in Chemistry summa cum laude, University Pennsylvania, 1985. Master of Science in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1988. Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992.
Software design engineer Hewlett-Packard Company, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, 1992—1995. Research staff member International Business Machines Corporation Research, Yorktown Heights, New York, since 1995. Master inventor International Business Machines Corporation, since 2001.
Achievements include invention of and implementation of widely used methods for improving computer performance. Patents for determining how changes to underlying data affect cached objects. Patents for systems and methods for persistent and robust memory management.
Patents for preserving state information in a continuing conversation between a client and server networked via a stateless protocol. Patents for new method for debugging optimized computer programs. Other national and international patents in field.
Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (senior. Treasurer 1998—2000, vice chair 2000-2003, chair technical committee on internet since 2003, Best Paper award 2010), Association Computing Machinery (co-editor-in-chief transactions on Web since 2005), International Federation Information Processing (United States national delegate since 1999, chair working group 6.4 on Internet applications engineering since 2000), Sigma Xi.
Married Louise O. Knapp, January 18, 1992. 1 child Roger A.