Priya Narasimhan
Associate Professor – ECE
Carnegie Mellon, 2001 –
| Contact Information | |
|---|---|
| Department | Electrical and Computer Engineering |
| Office | 2202 Collaborative Innovation Center |
| Telephone | (412)-268-8801 |
| Fax | (412)-268-1124 |
| priyan@ece.cmu.edu | |
| Website | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~priya/ |
Research Interests
Professor Priya Narasimhan's research interests lie in the following areas: dependable distributed systems, embedded systems, and distributed system security. Her current research projects address a variety of related issues: proactively fault-tolerant and adaptive systems (MEAD), applying compiler techniques for reliable distributed computing (Midas), distributed secure sensor middleware (Maples, Sluice), secure Web Services (Thema), survivability benchmarking (Vajra) and automated failure prediction and root-cause analysis in distributed systems (Sherlock and Tiresias).
She is also interested in the application of embedded systems to make society better -- in particular, she leads a research project (Trinetra) for assistive technologies for the blind, and the UNESCO Intelligent Book Reader project aimed at tools for enhancing education in the rural areas of Africa.
At CMU, she teaches the introductory embedded real-time systems course and the capstone embedded-systems design course. She is affiliated with CyLab, the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory (GM-CRL) and the Parallel Data Lab (PDL).
Before coming to CMU, she served as the Chief Technology Officer and, later, the Vice-President of Engineering of Eternal Systems, Inc., a high-tech startup company that commercialized the results of her Ph.D. research to develop reliable systems that are successfully used today. Her research greatly influenced the development of the Fault Tolerant CORBA specification, which has been officially adopted as an industrial standard.
For her research, she has received an NSF CAREER Award, a Best Paper Award, the UCSB Lancaster Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and two IBM Faculty Partnership Awards. She is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. Her spare time is devoted to watching the Pittsburgh Steelers play (American) football. Go Steelers!
In the News
- Sight for the Blind and Speech for the Deaf
- Hey, can yinz see anything from up there?
- Turning Gestures into Speech
- Glove converts sign language into sound
- ECE Students Win Grants for Undergraduate Research
- Narasimhan Selected to Participate in NAE Symposium
- Narasimhan and Song Named Sloan Research Fellows
- ECE Students Awarded NSF Graduate Research Fellowships
- ECE Senior a Finalist in CRA Outstanding Undergraduate Award Contest
- System allows blind to 'see' to shop
- Carnegie Mellon Team Develops Disability-Friendly Devices
- ECE Graduate Student Wins Homeland Security Fellowship
- Narasimhan Elected to IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance
- Carnegie Mellon Wins Best Paper Award; Faculty Help Plan RTSS
- Narasimhan Speaks At WinECE Welcome Dinner
- Narasimhan Appointed to ACM Doctoral Dissertation Subcommittee
- Narasimhan Wins Best Paper Award at Joint Systems and Software Engineering Symposium
- Narasimhan Receives NSF Career Award
- Narasimhan Wins IBM Faculty Partnership Award
Research Area
Computer Systems
Keywords
fault tolerance, distributed systems, embedded systems, security
Education
PhD, 1999
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
MS, 1995
Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara
BS, 1993
Physics, Mathemetics, and Electronics
BMS College for Women