Priya Narasimhan

Associate Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow

"The MSIT-MOB program, with its focus on Mobility, gives students valuable insight into a dynamic technology. The master's project practicum and the internship in Silicon Valley allow students to take the knowledge and skills covered in the core courses and become hands-on with the surging issues in mobility today. As a result, students become technology experts, strategists, and problem-solvers in an area of the industry that is thirsting for talent."

"In my research, my students and I have taken engineering solutions and tried to give blind people a better quality of life and complete independence so that they can shop independently in a store using technology. Three years ago, we started a company and hope to get this solution into every blind person's hands in the United States. There's nothing that beats the adrenal rush of someone using your stuff for the first time."

Dr. Narasimhan ran a start-up company that stemmed from her Ph.D. work at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Since coming to Carnegie Mellon, she has worked on several research projects, including Trinetra ("third-eye" in Sanskrit), a smart phone-based assistive technology for the blind.