Dr. Narasimhan is an Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon. Her current research projects address a variety of related issues: proactively fault-tolerant and adaptive systems (about the Mobility Research Center
In light of the dramatic technical, economic, and socially disruptive effects of the global development of mobility technology, Carnegie Mellon has launched the new CyLab Mobility Research Center (MRC) that leverages our west coast facilities. This Center, an extension of CyLab at Carnegie Mellon, will link existing research, education and entrepreneurship programs at Carnegie Mellon’s Silicon Valley campus and Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh. This center also encompasses the SmartSpaces research activities.
Innovative & Interdisciplinary
The Center's research program is intrinsically multi-disciplinary and experimental, combining innovative research in technology, usability, behavior, business and policy. Application-driven research and systems prototyping, along with large-scale pilots, will provide a context to drive the integrated experimental research into technology, usability, business, and policy. This effort is unique in examining these forces in a unified way.
In addition to advancing hardware and software technology, the Center’s research will include studies of how people work, play, shop and collaborate within the test-bed, and how new applications and services can change their lives. The Center will conduct usability studies to improve the value and ease of use for different populations and will build-on existing software engineering expertise to improve ways of developing such applications. The Center will study business and organizational issues related to mobility, including new ways of monetizing services, managing distributed mobile development and dynamically allocating resources to enhance mobile services.
Carnegie Mellon’s broad and deep expertise in related research activities in software engineering, open source (COSI), robotics (CMIL) and context-aware systems (SmartSpaces) and expertise in the academic departments and schools at Carnegie Mellon including Electrical and Computer Engineering, Human Computer Interaction, School of Computer Science ensure that the CyLab Mobility Research Center is uniquely positioned to partner with organizations around the world including to advance the state of the art in Mobility Systems.
Outstanding Faculty
The MRC will leverage faculty from colleges and departments across Carnegie Mellon University. As part of CyLab, the MRC has access to many resources. CyLab is one of the largest university-based cybersecurity education and research centers in the U.S. It is multi-disciplinary and university-wide program, involving six colleges from Carnegie Mellon, 50 plus faculty and over 130 graduate students. In addition to the campus affiliations below, CyLab also engages with a consortium of industry partners in support of innovtive research and technology transfer.
- CERT, at the Software Engineering Institute
- Information Networking Institute
- School of Computer Science
- Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
- Engineering & Public Policy Department
- Heinz School of Public Policy & Management
- Department of Statistics
- Tepper School of Business