I am part of Open Networks and Big Data Lab and NYU Systems. My interests in computer science lie in the areas of both networked mobile systems and data science. I am particularly interested in designing smart systems for urban spatiotemporal sensing applications as well as algorithms and methods for spatiotemporal forecasting and analytics. My larger goals are to have such systems deployed in the real world for measurable policy impact.

I am advised by Prof Lakshminarayanan Subramanian.

Prior to this, I spent nearly 3 years at TCS Innovation Labs in Chennai, India, working with a great team headed by Prof Anand Sivasubramaniam on building energy management. The work was mostly experimental research, where we employed building energy simulation tools to test a variety of hypotheses, and validate them against real world data collected from energy meters and sensors.

Prior to NYU, I obtained a Bachelors degree in Computer Science from IIT Madras in 2012.

Current

• The Case for MUSIC: A Programmable IoT Framework for Mobile Urban Sensing Applications.
  Shiva R. Iyer, Soumie Kumar, Kate Boxer, Fatima Zarinni, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian.
  arXiv. 2018.
• Urban Traffic Congestion Mapping using Bus Mobility Data.
  Shiva Iyer, Kate Boxer, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian.
  In Proceedings of the first ACM SIGKDD Workshop on Knowledge Discovery and User Modeling for Smart Cities (UMCit). 2018.
• Data-driven Probabilistic Framework for Student Learning.
  Rishabh Ranawat, Ashwin Venkataraman, Shiva Iyer, Srikanth Jagabathula, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian.
  ICML Workshop on AI and Computational Psychology: Theories, Algorithms and Applications (CompPsy). 2018.
• Crowdsourced Learning.
  Ashwin Venkataraman, Shiva Iyer, Kunal Gugale, Sepehr Vakil, Abhijai Garg, Jay Chen, Krishnaram Kenthapadi, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian.
  Collective Intelligence. 2016.

Prior to grad school

• Centralized Management of HVAC Energy in Large Multi-AHU Zones.
  Srinarayana Nagarathinam, Arunchandar Vasan, Venkata Ramakrishna P, Shiva R. Iyer, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam.
  In Proceedings of second ACM International Conference on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys). 2015
• On the Utility of Occupancy Sensing for Managing HVAC Energy in Large Zones.
  Srinarayana Nagarathinam, Shiva R. Iyer, Arunchandar Vasan, Venkata Ramakrishna P., Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam.
  In Proceedings of the sixth ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy). 2015.
• Energy Disaggregation Analysis of a Supermarket Chain using a Facility-Model.
  Shiva R. Iyer, Maathangi Sankar, Venkata Ramakrisha P., Venkatesh Sarangan, Arunchandar Vasan, Anand Sivasubramaniam.
  Energy and Buildings, Volume 97, 65-76. 2015.
• Comparing apples to oranges: Energy Benchmarking of Supermarkets with Limited Data.
  Maathangi Sankar, Venkata Ramakrishna P., Shiva R. Iyer, Venkatesh Sarangan, Arunchandar Vasan, Anand Sivasubramaniam. 2014.
  In Proceedings of the fifth international Conference on Future Energy Systems (e-Energy). 2014.
• Watts in the basket?: Energy Analysis of a Retail Chain.
  Shiva R. Iyer, Arunchandar Vasan, Venkatesh Sarangan, Anand Sivasubramaniam.
  In Proceedings of the fifth ACM Workshop on Embedded Systems For Energy-Efficient Buildings (BuildSys). 2013.