Carnegie Mellon Professor to Lead New Research Center

Priya Narasimhan was named c0-director of the Intel Science and Research Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. The center will be funded with a five-year, $15 million grant from Intel. The research will focus on technology innovations for the home, the car, and the retail environment. Mei Chen, senior research scientist at Intel, will be the co-principal investigator on the project.

Dr. Narasimhan is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University. She is a graduate of BMS College for Women in India. She hold a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara.