Dr. Ravi Iyer is the senior principal engineer, CTO, and director in New Business Initiatives (NBI) at Intel Corporation. He directs a team of 15-plus senior technologists incubating technologies and emerging new business opportunities in NBI.
Iyer attended Texas A&M University for his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees, receiving his Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE). He joined Intel that same year.
He is an IEEE Fellow and has received more than 20 recognition awards at Intel. Iyer is well recognized in the world-wide architecture community, has numerous academic collaborations, and has chaired multiple conferences and workshops. He has also been an associate editor for IEEE/ACM journals.
Iyer's research and development interests include computer architecture and design such as SoCs (system-on-a-chips), CMPs (chip multi-processors), wearable/IOT (Internet of Things) devices, accelerators, cache/memories, small cores, recognition and analytics, performance modeling and analysis.
He collaborates with several academic groups on architecture research for CMP and SoC platforms, and mentors and advises Ph.D. students, sitting on several dissertation committees. At the CSE department's annual awards banquet on April 20 this year, Iyer will receive a Distinguished Former Student plaque, and a scholarship in his name will be presented to a computer science or computer engineering student.