Impact of Research Contributions 

  • Dr. Iyengar's research contributions have spanned a large number of disciplines emphasizing Computational problems in Sensor Networks/Robotics in the context of Signal/Image Integration and Sensor Fusion problems. The application of this work lies in real time tumor tracking systems that is currently involved in development with UT South Western Medical Center.
    His computational framework has led to a novel range of applications in Sensor Architecture, Oceanographic Image Understanding, and Autonomous Systems. He has laid the scientific foundations for cutting-edge software technologies that provide solutions to fundamental problems in sensor fusion, critical event processing, and autonomous systems and led their deployment to a whole range of commercial and government applications.
    More Specifically, Computational aspects of sensor networks are a fascinating area of fundamental scientific interest as well as their technological applications.

  • Contributions to Theoretical Framework and Applications

    Notable Contribution to the discovery of new results in Computational Sensor Networks/ Robotics/ Image Processing and Applications


  • Mission-Agile Complex Event Processing System

  • Startup Companies

    • Dr. Iyengar invented the Cognitive Information Management Shell a complex event processing architecture and engine that innovatively combines multiagent systems with machine learning-based agile analytics and distributed middleware. This shell introduced a new paradigm for combining machine learning with expert knowledge and human input and is perhaps the most important advance in complex event processing technology for many decades.

    Dr. Iyengar led the engineering team at Nulogix Labs, a start up company that he co-founded, since 2010 for commercializing this technology and leading its deployment for precision agricultural domain in India and US in collaboration with Morph2o, a reputed scientist from NASA and Indian Agricultural Research Institute.

    The system developed by his team provides soil and water management for precision agriculture with the ability to deal with unpredictable environmental conditions. It receives data from ground sensors and as well as satellite imagery and both proactively and reactively provide analytics and control for irrigation, fertilization, yield management, etc.

    In 2010-11 the company has been collaborating with several non-governmental organizations in developing countries for deploying this technology and has received grants/contracts worth 0.5 million dollars. In the near future, this system will provide a convergent platform for providing wide area analytics for several hundred governmental and nongovernmental organizations in the developing world.

    In the News : Baton Rouge Today         LSU Media Center

  • Media

    • His research work was shown on the Discovery channel, History channel, local ABC news affiliates(WBRZ News), Fox TV channel(Fox 44 WGMB), Youtube and major news outlets(LSUReville, The Advocate) around the world, over 60 million homes distributed worldwide (Russia, Korea, Europe, China, India etc.)

    In the News

    India Times   Deccan Herald   Indian Express  LSU Today   LSU Reveille

    The Advocate   The Times of India


    One of Dr. Iyengar's students Brian Obee’s love of digital artistry emerged in 1990 with a visit to LSU robotics research laboratory where he was introduced to many techniques and that ended him getting an animation award at the 78th Academy Awards.

  • Contribution to US NAVY

    • Dr. Iyengar’s research on image processing systems was used in 1988-93 by the US Navy as a centerpiece of architecture. Dr. Iyengar addressed the problem on linkage of low level features to oceanographic objects. Without useful results in this key area, the work of other laboratories involved with this project could not have been integrated into a working prototype system.    For three years Dr. Iyengar's research served well as the centerpiece of this pioneering effort in computerized image analysis system.


  • Contribution to DARPA

    • His work on Brooks-Iyengar fusion algorithm has been used in:
    (1) DARPA SensIT program field test
    (2) DARPA/ARO ESP MURI and various universities around the world as a foundation topic for information fusion.



  • Detection of Glaucoma(submitted) nominated for Asian Innovative Award 2010

    • The research findings uniquely connect computing techniques to techniques to biological systems protocols and modeling. Dr. Iyengar's work has led to fundamental breakthroughs that allow users to program on many of his protocols and techniques including a framework for detecting glaucomatous progression in the optic nerve head of an eye using proper orthogonal decomposition (IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine) – 2009


  • Influential Text Books

    • Dr. Iyengar's influential text books in Multi-Sensor Fusions , Sensor Network Programming , Wavelet Analysis, Distributed Sensor Networks have been used extensively and translated into many languages worldwide. The research findings uniquely connect computing techniques to imaging techniques to biological systems protocols and modeling.

  • CACM review , MIT Technology review[Submitted](Editor- Tom Simonite), and ORNL news report


  • Research into Commercial Arena

    • One of Dr. Iyengar's project along with Dr. Phoha(LA Tech) and Dr. Kannan(LSU) entitled "Fast Web Page Allocation on a Server Using Self-Organizing Properties of Neural Networks" was selected in World's Best Technology Showcase in the year 2007. This is a highly competitive summit and other competitors were Los Alamos Labs, Johns Hopkins University, EPA , NASA and many other.


  • Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Study Group


  • His research has spanned over three decades producing a number of new inventions and has led him to have his impact on thousands of researchers.