Parameshwar P Iyer (Ramesh) has retired as a full-time faculty member from the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from the University of California, Davis, USA; M.S in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana – Champaign, USA; and B.Tech. (Hons.) from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur India.
 
Prof. Iyer’s teaching and research interests include Project Management; Technology Management and Entrepreneurship; Business Systems Analysis; and Knowledge Management. He has authored three books on Engineering Project Management with Case Studies; Project Evaluation and Implementation; Strategic Management (all published by Vikas Publishing, New Delhi); and has contributed one Chapter on Biodiesel Energy Systems and Technology, in a Book on Capacity Building for Sustainable Development published by the Third World Academy of Sciences, Trieste, Italy.

Post his retirement, Prof. Iyer has taken up Honorary positions as Executive Director, AMBA; Director (Advisory), EggHeads; Technical Director, MindMatrix; and President, Vidya Mandir Trust. He is also starting up his own Venture, Iyer’s Café LLP.