Iyengar, Sundararaja Sitharama

Prof. Dr. S.S. Iyengar is currently the Distinguished University Professor, Founding Director of the Discovery Lab, and Director of the US Army-funded Center of Excellence in Digital Forensics at Florida International University, Miami. He is also the Distinguished Chaired Professor at National Forensics Sciences University, Gandhinagar, India. He was honored as the ‘Founding Father of AI Science in Digital Forensics’ by the Soft Computing Research Society in February 2025. This prestigious recognition is a testament to his lifelong contributions to artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and digital forensics. He was recently awarded the 2025 Distinguished Career Award in Computer Science and Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the 2023 Karnataka Rajyotava Award (Karnataka State’s 2nd Highest Civilian Award) on November 1st, 2023. He has been involved with research and education in high-performance intelligent systems, Data Science and Machine Learning Algorithms, Sensor Fusion, Data Mining, and Intelligent Systems. Since receiving his Ph.D. degree in 1974 from Missi. State Univ., USA, he has directed over 65 Ph.D. students, many number of postdocs, and many research undergraduate students who are now faculty at Major Universities worldwide or Scientists or Engineers at National Labs/Industries around the world. He has published more than 600 research papers, has authored/co-authored and edited 32 books, and hold various patents. Over the lifetime, his work, Brooks-Iyengar Algorithm has over 5223 publications(s) within this topic and has received 138,976 citation(s). The topic is also known as the Brooks–Iyengar hybrid algorithm.