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. She is also the founder of YinzCam, a mobile app development company that provides official apps for a number of professional sports teams.

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

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

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. She has incorporated YinzCam into her Sports Technology course at Carnegie Mellon University. Through YinzCam, she also developed iBurgh, a groundbreaking mobile app to allow citizens to report complaints to the city's IT departments via smartphones.

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.