Priya Narasimhan

Priya Narasimhan
Occupation Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Founder and CEO, YinzCam

Priya Narasimhan is a Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[1][2] She is also the founder of YinzCam, a mobile app development company that provides official apps for a number of professional sports teams.[3]

Narasimhan was born in India and lived in Africa.[4] She attended University of California, Santa Barbara.[4] Her academic interests include dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance, embedded systems, mobile systems and sports technology.[4] She received a Sloan Fellowship.[1] She has served as co-director of Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University.[4] She has written extensively on fault tolerance, research that led to the development of the Fault Tolerant CORBA industrial standard.[1] Her Ph.D. research was commercialized through Eternal Systems, Inc., a company where she served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice-President of Engineering.[1] Her research led to the development of 24x7 highly available platforms and solutions for data centers and large online systems.[1]

She became a fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins upon moving to Pittsburgh in 2001.[3] She is also a fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers.[1]

Her interest in computers and Pittsburgh-based sports led her to develop mobile apps bringing real-time statistics, multimedia, streaming radio, social media, and live video feeds.[5] She has incorporated YinzCam into her Sports Technology course at Carnegie Mellon University.[6] Through YinzCam, she also developed iBurgh, a groundbreaking mobile app to allow citizens to report complaints to the city's IT departments via smartphones.[4][7]

She had also developed AndyVision, a robot project funded by the Intel Science and Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University that is capable of quickly inventorying merchandise and detecting out-of-stock conditions in retail environments.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Priya Narasimhan, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  2. ↑ Lindeman, Teresa F. (May 3, 2013). "Priya Narasimhan / Carnegie Mellon University Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering; YinzCam Inc., CEO". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  3. 1 2 "The Pittsburgh-India connection has paid off for Pittsburgh". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. May 1, 2011. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "YinzTech". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. December 20, 2009. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  5. ↑ "YinzCam (R) Inc." (About). YinzCam.
  6. ↑ Price, Karen (December 3, 2009). "Students bring together sports and smarts". Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. Retrieved January 11, 2014.
  7. ↑ Schwartzel, Erich (July 20, 2010). "Visitors descend upon CMU research labs". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 12, 2014.
  8. ↑ Sathian, Sanjena (July 29, 2012). "Retailing with a robot: Carnegie Mellon professor's software package can keep track of inventory". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Retrieved January 11, 2014.


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