Priya Narasimhan

Priya Narasimhan is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a serial entrepreneur, and the CEO and founder of YinzCam, a U.S.-based technology company that provides mobile apps for professional sports teams in the United States, Canada, Mexico, U.K., Australia, New Zealand, and South America.

Biography Narasimhan was born in India and completed her high school in Zambia, in Africa. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering, and was awarded the 2000 Lancaster Best Doctoral Dissertation Award for her research in providing fault tolerance transparently (i.e., with no code modifications) to existing distributed applications. Heinz History Center's History Maker in Innovation, 2017

Research Narasimhan has served as co-director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University, and headed the Intel Science and Technology Centre in Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University. She has also worked to incorporate embedded systems into sports through a project that tracks the trajectory of footballs, players and other equipment on the field during a game.

Social impact During the 2010 Northa American blizzard, Narasimhan and her students worked with the Pittsburgh City Council to launch a website, How's My Street, to allow Pittsburgh residents to know which streets were freshly plowed and, therefore, passable for driving. Through the Trinetra project, she developed mobile technologies to provide increased independence to blind people in their daily activities such as shopping, taking public transportation. She and her students collaborated with the Pittsburgh City Council to develop and launch iBurgh, a mobile app to allow citizens to report complaints to the city's IT departments via smartphones. Narasimhan helped to start Eternal Systems, Inc., a California-based company where she served as Chief Technology Officer and the Vice-President of Engineering, to transition her Ph.D. research into products for commercial use. to sports leagues, tournaments, and stadiums.

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