Priya Narasimhan I was born in Madras, India, and grew up in Ndola, Zambia, where I completed my high school education. I returned to India to complete my B.S. (majoring in Physics, Mathematics and Electronics) from the BMS College for Women in Bangalore, India. I came to the United States in 1994, and completed my M.S. (in 1995) and my Ph.D. (in 1999), both from the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1995-1999, as a part of my doctoral research, I designed and implemented the Eternal System, which was aimed at enhancing CORBA applications transparently with support for reliability and live software upgrades. My Ph.D. dissertation on Transparent Fault Tolerance for CORBA won the 1999-2000 UCSB Lancaster Award for the best graduate dissertation in the collective fields of engineering and sciences. From 1998-2000, I was actively involved in the efforts of the Object Management Group to develop a new standard for building fault-tolerant CORBA applications. My doctoral research greatly influenced the development of the Fault Tolerant CORBA specification, which the Object Management Group officially adopted as an industrial standard in March 2000. From 1999-2001, I served as the Chief Technology Officer and, later, the Vice-President of Engineering of Eternal Systems, Inc., a high-tech startup company aimed at commercializing the results of my doctoral research in order to develop reliable software products that are being successfully used today. In Fall 2001, I moved from Santa Barbara to Pittsburgh, to join Carnegie Mellon University, where I am an Assistant Professor of ECE and CS. I do active research and teaching in the areas of fault tolerance, security, distributed systems and middleware. My current research projects include the MEAD System for real-time fault-tolerant middleware support, and the Starfish System for scalable survivable infrastructural support.

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