Computer and Systems Research Laboratory The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics ACM, The Association for Computing Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society International Federation for Information Processing

Ravishankar K. Iyer holds a joint appointment as professor in the departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is also co-director of the Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing and the Illinois Computing Laboratory for Aerospace Systems and Software -- a NASA Center for Excellence in Aerospace Computing. Iyer's research interests are in the area of reliable computing, measurement and evaluation, and automated design. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Queensland University in Australia and has held positions at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the IBM Research Laboratories in Zurich. He is an IEEE Computer Society distinguished visitor, an associate fellow of the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), a fellow of the IEEE, and a mem- ber of ACM and the Sigma Xi honorary research society. He has published extensively in archival journals and refereed conferences; recently, he edited an International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) volume on dependable computing for critical applications. He has chaired several conferences and program committees and given invited and keynote presentations. He is on the IFIP Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing and chairs the IEEE Technical Committee on Fault-Tolerant Computing. In 1991, he received the Senior Humboldt Foundation Award for excellence in research and teaching and in 1993 was awarded the AIAA Information Systems Award and Medal for "fundamental and pioneering contributions toward the design, evaluation, and validation of dependable aerospace computing systems."