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/ |
| Assistant | Jennifer Engleson |
Research Interests
Professor Priya Narasimhan is an Associate Professor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, and a Director of the Mobility Research Center, at Carnegie Mellon. Her research interests lie in the fields of dependable distributed systems, embedded systems and mobile systems. Her research has earned her a Alfred Sloan Fellowship, the 2009 Carnegie Science Center's Emerging Female Scientist Award, an NSF CAREER Award, a Best Paper Award, the 2001 UCSB Lancaster Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award and two IBM Faculty Partnership Awards. She teaches the introductory embedded real-time systems course (18-349) and the capstone embedded-systems design course (18-549). Her teaching has earned her the 2008 Eta Kappa Nu (Carnegie Mellon Sigma Chapter) Excellence in Teaching Award.
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 industrial standard.
Apart from her service on various program committees of conferences, she serves on the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award Committee. She is an elected member of the IFIP Working Group 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. At Carnegie Mellon, she is affiliated with CyLab, the General Motors Collaborative Research Laboratory (GM-CRL), the Parallel Data Lab (PDL) and the Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR).
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 (SALSA, ASDF, Gumshoe and Tiresias). She combines her passion for sports with her research through the Yinz Cam and Football Engineering research projects that leverage embedded and mobile technologies to improve the viewing, scouting, refereeing and training aspects of games such as ice hockey and football. 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 another research project (HandTalk) that focuses on wearable assistive technologies for the deaf.
In the News
- Tudor Dumitras Wins Prestigious Vlissides Award
- Keeping an 'i' on the 'Burgh
- Yinz Cam Watches the Stanley Cup Finals - Very Closely
- Priya Narasimhan Wins 2009 Carnegie Science Center Award
- Smart Footballs and Smart Gloves at the Steelers Game?
- ECE Launches New Ph.D. Program in Mobility
- Carnegie Mellon Launches New Research Center to Grow Mobile Device Technologies and Services
- 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, mobile systems
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