Current: Priya Narasimhan is the CEO and Founder of YinzCam, Inc., a Carnegie Mellon spin-off company focused on mobile live streaming and technologies to provide sports fans with the ultimate experience in NHL/NFL stadiums. Prof. Priya Narasimhan is also an Associate Professor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department. Her research interests lie in the fields of dependable distributed systems, fault-tolerance, embedded systems, mobile systems and sports technology.

Her work has earned her a 2011 ad:tech Innovation Award, an 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. Her students selected her as the recipient of the 2008 Eta Kappa Nu (Carnegie Mellon Sigma Chapter) Excellence in Teaching Award, and Carnegie Mellon's College of Engineering selected her as the recipient of its 2009 Benjamin Richard Teare Teaching Award.

Her spare time is devoted to to watching professional (American) football and ice-hockey games. She is a rabid fan of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pittsburgh Penguins. Here we go, Steelers! Let's go, Pens!

Previous: She was the CTO and, later, the VP of Engineering of Eternal Systems, Inc., a startup company that commercialized the results of her Ph.D. research to develop and sell 24x7 highly available platforms and solutions for data centers and large online systems. Her research greatly influenced the development of the Fault Tolerant CORBA industrial standard. She has also served as the Director of Intel Labs Pittsburgh in 2010, and the Director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center, at Carnegie Mellon University in 2009.