Carnegie Mellon University

Priya Narasimhan

Priya Narasimhan

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Address 5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Bio

Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineeringat Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests lie in the fields of dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance, embedded systems, mobile systems and sports technology. She serves as the academic lead of the Intel Science and Technology Center in Embedded Computing (ISTC-EC) that comprises Carnegie Mellon, Penn State, UIUC, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, UC Berkeley and Georgia Tech. Priya Narasimhan is the CEO and Founder of YinzCam, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon spin-off company focused on mobile live streaming and scalable video technologies to provide the ultimate mobile fan experience to 40+ professional sports teams/venues. Her spare time is devoted to to watching professional (American) football and ice-hockey games. She is a rabid fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Here we go, Steelers! Let's go, Pens! 

Education

Ph.D., 1999 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of California, Santa Barbara

M.S., 1995 
Electrical and Computer Engineering 
University of California, Santa Barbara

Research

Keywords

  • Fault tolerance
  • Distributed systems
  • Embedded systems
  • Mobile systems