Background
Iyer, Ravishankar Krishnan was born on December 4, 1949 in New Delhi. Son of Krishna Venkateshwara and Janaky (Narayana) Iyer. came to the United States, 1979.
electrical and computer engineering educator
Iyer, Ravishankar Krishnan was born on December 4, 1949 in New Delhi. Son of Krishna Venkateshwara and Janaky (Narayana) Iyer. came to the United States, 1979.
Bachelor of Engineering, University Queensland, Australia, 1973. Doctor of Philosophy, University Queensland, Australia, 1977.
Research fellow, Norwegian Institute Technology, Trondheim, Norway, 1978-1979;
visiting scholar, Stanford University, California, 1979-1980;
acting assistant professor, Stanford University, 1980-1983;
assistant professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1983-1985;
associate professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1985-1989;
co-director ICLASS, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1985;
professor, University of Illinois, Urbana, since 1989;
director, Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, Urbana, since 1989. Consultant Stanford Design Associations for International Business Machines Corporation, New York City, 1981-1982, International Business Machines Corporation Corporation, Poughkeepsie, New York, 1984, Palyn Associations, Santa Clara, California, 1983-1985, Siemens Corporation, West Germany, 1987, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, since 1988, NCR Corporation, since 1988. Visiting professor Laboratoire d-Automatique etd'Analyse des Systemes, Toulouse, France, 1987.
Visiting scientist, International Business Machines Corporation Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland, 1987. Technical consultant Digital Eqiup. Corporation, Malborough, Massachusetts, 1986, 88, 90, Bell Canada, Montreal, since 1989.
Technical advisor National Aeronautics and Space Administration Space Station Advisory Council, Washington, since 1990.
Chairman panel on issues in dependable computing, ARPA, 1995. Fellow Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (chair technical committee on fault tolerant computing, advisory board member technical committee on fault tolerant computing 1989, editor Transactions on Software Engineering, 1990, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, guest editor Transactions on Computers 1994, Humboldt Foundation award 1991), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (associate, executive member technical committee on computer systems 1990, founding member standards committee 1990, Information Systems award and medal 1993), International Federal for Information Processing (member editorial board series on dependable computing, technical committee of reliable computing 1986), Association for Computing Machinery.
Married Marie Pamela Carpenter, August 19, 1982. Children: Priya, Marika.