Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer currently works for Salesforce.com in the Site Reliability Engineering team. Prior to this, he served as an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore. He has received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering (University first rank) from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India in 2004 and Masters and PhD degrees from National University of Singapore in 2008 and 2012 respectively. He brings in a decade of industry experience in various companies including Sasken Communication Technologies, NXP semiconductors and most recently at Progress software. He has handled several roles in the software industry including QA Architect, Technical Support Manager, Engineering development and Technology Evangelist.
He has strong inclination towards Game Theory. He applies game theory for handling conflicts, enforcing cooperation and for multi-agent systems. His technical knowledge and experience are in various areas including Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing Paradigms (including cloud platforms, Node.js and containers), Computer Networks, Software Engineering practices (Agile) and Quality Analysis, Economic models (Game Theoretic principles) and current day practices on cloud-based enterprise architectures, Internet of Things (IoT) based systems, Machine Learning and technology for traditional Indian dance (such as Kathakali) popularization. His mathematical interests includegame theory, graph theory, optimization principles etc. Over the past several years he has acquired practical knowledge and experience in various cutting-edge software engineering methodologies including Agile framework and has experience formulating and implementing various software engineering principles using Agile for large and small product development teams.
Dr. Iyer is active in doing practical industry-oriented research on the above topics of his interest. He also aspire to do research on technological innovations to popularize traditional classical arts such as Kathakali and Koodiyattam.
He has published two book chapters in the “Encyclopaedia for Cloud Computing” published in 2016 in addition to several book chapters, journals and conference publications. Dr. Iyer has delivered several practical workshops and talks on various cutting-edge technology topics in many academic and industry events in several countries including USA, Europe, Australia and Asia. Many of these were on the contributions made by him in his industry engagement for software quality analysis with current day software engineering principles such as Agile for application development involving cloud platforms, mobile platforms and IoT based systems.
Dr. Iyer is an IEEE and IEEE-CS Member. He has been a reviewer of many internationals Journals including IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and several international conferences. He was also the program chair for several international conferences including ICCCI and ICIWE.
Dr. Iyer has strong teaching skills and boundless passion for teaching. He was a visiting faculty at IIIT-H (International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad), and has been teaching various subjects including “Game Theory for Computer Science", “Computer Networks”, “Advanced Computer Networks” and “Scripting and Computer environments” for which, he has framed the syllabus, developed the materials and references, structured the grading scheme and formulated continuous assessment strategies. Further, he was a member of Board of Studies at JNTU-H (a premium university in India) where he participates in framing the syllabus for the university’s upcoming academic year.
He is also an expert in performing Kathakali, a traditional Indian dance. He has composed a story in Kathakali and he spends a considerable amount of his personal time to uplift this traditional art by organizing Kathakali performances, workshops and demonstrations and performance by himself. He has also composed a Kathakalistory “Sri Mookambika Mahathmyam” which has been staged in multiple venues in India.
Site Reliability Engineer, Salesforce, Hyderabad
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, School of Engineering, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham
Handled several roles during this tenure including QA Architect, Technical Support Manager, Principal Engineer and Technology Evangelist.
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Senior Software Engineer, NXP Semiconductors Ltd, Protocol stack development of UMA (WLAN-GSM dual stack)
Software Engineer, Sasken Communication Technologies, End to End System Integration activities for GPRS/EDGE RAN.
1. Certificate earned on several security and machine learning practices and tools
2. Selected as AWS Educate Cloud Faculty Ambassador by Amazon Web Services in 2019 and 2020 in recognition of his development, implementation and thought leadership in cloud computing programs, curricula and course
3. Invited tutorial on "Game Theory for Networks and Telecommunications" at 26th IEEE ICT, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 2019
4. Invited tutorial on "Game Theory and Engineering Applications" for IEEE INDICON 2018
5. Invited workshop on "Containerization for next-generation application development and deployment" for IEEE INDICON 2018
6. Invited Tutorial workshop at ICIC International conference, Bengaluru in October 2018
7. Invited Keynote speaker for SAPIENCE 2018 in September 2018 at SNGCE, Kolenchery, Kerala
8. Recognition for robustness activities in Rollbase QA, Progress Software, 2016
9. Team Achievement Award for e-commerce integration testing, Progress, 2015
10. Outstanding Contributor Award for Integration QA lead activities, Progress, 2014
11. University Topper (First Rank) for the B-Tech degree examination in 2004
12. National University of Singapore, Postgraduate Research Scholarship, 2009-2012
Supervisor : Prof Bharadwaj Veeravalli
Ph. D. awarded in December 2012
Ph. D. Title : Broker-mediated Multiple - Cloud Orchestration Mechanisms
for
Cloud Computing in
Department of Electrical and Communication Engineering
Completed M.Sc.in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Computer
Engineering. Did a project under the guidance of Dr Kong Peng-Yong at A*STAR
I2R
(Institute
of
Infocomm Research, Singapore).
Thesis Title : Belief based cooperation enforcement in wireless sensor
networks
Completed B.Tech in Computer Science and Engineering with University
FIRST rank.
Final year project was done as DRDO (Defence Research and Development Organization),
Bengaluru, India in 2003 on Secure email transfer
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| 1 | 2020 | S. S. Arun and G. Neelakanta Iyer, "On the Analysis of COVID19 - Novel Corona Viral Disease Pandemic Spread Data Using Machine Learning Techniques," 2020 4th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems (ICICCS), Madurai, India, 2020, pp. 1222-1227, doi: 10.1109/ICICCS48265.2020.9121027. |
| 1 | 2020 | G. N. Iyer, B. Vignesh S, B. Sohan, D. R and V. Raman, "Automated Third Umpire Decision Making in Cricket Using Machine Learning Techniques," 2020 4th International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems (ICICCS), Madurai, India, 2020, pp. 1216-1221, doi: 10.1109/ICICCS48265.2020.9121078. |
| 1 | 2020 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Vishal Raman, Aswin K. S., and Bharadwaj Veeravalli, “On the strategies for Risk Aware Cloud and Fog Broker Arbitrage Mechanisms”, in 4th International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication (ICCMC 2020), India, 2020. |
| 2 | 2020 | Sanjay Kumar K. K R., Goutham Subramani, Rishinathh K. S., and Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, “ On multi-class currency classification using Convolutional Neural Networks and Cloud Computing systems for the Blind”, in Springer International Conference on Advances in Distributed Computing and Machine Learning(ICADCML-2020), VIT, Vellore, India, VIT, Vellore, India, 2020. |
| 3 | 2020 | Lakshmi Tulasi Bhavanam and Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, “On the Classification of Kathakali Hand Gestures Using Support Vector Machines and Convolutional Neural Networks”, in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing (AISP) 2020, VIT, Amaravathi, India, 2020. |
| 4 | 2019 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer and Kon, P. E. - Y., “B-Coop: A Novel Cooperation Enforcement Scheme for Wireless Networks”, in 26th IEEE International Conference on Telecommunications (IEEE ICT 2019), Hanoi, Vietnam, April 8-10,, Hanoi, Vietnam, April 8-10 2019, 2019.[Abstract] |
| 5 | 2019 | Lakshmi Tulasi Bhavanam and Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, “On the Classification of Kathakali Hand Gestures Using Support Vector Machines and Convolutional Neural Networks”, in International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing (AISP) 2020, VIT, Amaravathi, India, 2020. |
| 6 | 2018 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, “Evolutionary Games for Cloud, Edge and Fog Computing – A Comprehensive Study”, in 5th International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Data Mining (ICCIDM-2018), Odisha, India , 2018. |
| 7 | 2015 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Silas, S., and Iyer, G., “An optimized cloud based big data processing mechanism using Self-Organizing Map in Hadoop environments”, in 2015 International Conference on Green Computing and Internet of Things (ICGCIoT), 2015.[Abstract] |
| 8 | 2014 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Maddala, S., Kishore, S., and Kolamala, P. S., “WaFeR: Model-driven test-framework for testing web UI-based applications”, in ", IEEE Computer Society IT Professional Conference on Challenges in Information Systems Governance, National In-stitute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD, USA (IEEE ITPRO,'14), 2014.[Abstract] |
| 9 | 2013 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Pasimuthu, J., and Loganathan, R., “PCTF: An Integrated, Extensible Cloud Test Framework for Testing Cloud Platforms and Applications”, in 2013 13th International Conference on Quality Software, 2013.[Abstract] |
| 10 | 2012 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer, Chandrasekaran, R., and Veeravalli, B., “Auction-based vs. incentive-based Multiple-Cloud orchestration mechanisms”, in 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (ComNetSat), 2012.[Abstract] |
| 11 | 2011 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer and Lim, Y. Cai, “Efficient multi-channel MAC protocol and channel allocation schemes for TDMA based cognitive radio networks”, in 2011 International Conference on Communications and Signal Processing, 2011.[Abstract]/td> |
| 12 | 2011 | Dr. Ganesh Neelakanta Iyer and Veeravalli, B., “On the resource allocation and pricing strategies in Compute Clouds using bargaining approaches”, in 2011 17th IEEE International Conference on Networks, 2011.[Abstract] |