Sundar Iyer

Sundar Iyer (BS CS ’98 IIT Bombay, MS/PhD CS Standford ‘00/’08), co-founded Nemo Systems where he was the CTO and Principal Architect. Nemo (acquired by Cisco Systems in ’05), specialized in memory algorithms (whose mathematical framework was developed during his PhD thesis), for high-performance networking. At Cisco, Iyer co-led the network memory group which focused on the research, development and deployment of memory solutions for Data Center and Enterprise networks. Iyer started his career as a founding member and senior architect at SwitchOn Networks (acquired by PMC-Sierra in ’00), where he developed algorithms for associative memory and deep packet classification. In 2008, he was awarded the MIT technology review (TR35) young innovator award for his work on network memory.