Priya Narasimhan
Priya Narasimhan is Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Co-Director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center.
Her 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.
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
Professional Background
Before coming to Carnegie Mellon, she served as the Chief Technology Officer and, later, 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.