Priya Narasimhan is a serial entrepreneur, and the CEO and Founder of YinzCam, a US-based technology company that provides the official mobile apps for 200+ professional sports teams, leagues, venues, and events in the United States, Canada, Mexico, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South America.
17 Facts About Priya Narasimhan
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Priya Narasimhan attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she received her Ph.
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Priya Narasimhan became an avid fan of the Pittsburgh Penguins upon moving to Pittsburgh in 2001, and her experience at a Penguins' hockey game was the inspiration for YinzCam.
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Priya Narasimhan founded YinzCam as a Carnegie Mellon spin-off in 2009, after working on research to provide in-venue, multi-angle, real-time streaming to fans within the Pittsburgh Penguins' arena.
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Priya Narasimhan served as the Director of Intel Labs Pittsburgh, the head of the Intel Science and Technology Center for Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon.
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Priya Narasimhan has been a faculty member in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Carnegie Mellon University since 2001.
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Priya Narasimhan has served as co-director of the CyLab Mobility Research Center at Carnegie Mellon University and headed the Intel Science and Technology Centre in Embedded Computing at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Priya Narasimhan has written and published more than 150 research papers on distributed systems and fault tolerance, research that led to the development of a fault-tolerance industrial standard.
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Priya Narasimhan had developed AndyVision, a robotics project under the Intel Science and Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, to build an indoor robot that is capable of quickly inventorying merchandise and detecting out-of-stock conditions in retail environments.
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Priya Narasimhan's research led to the development of 24x7 highly available platforms and solutions for data centers, large online systems and deeply embedded systems.
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Priya Narasimhan co-authored a commercial fault-tolerance standard, the Fault-Tolerant CORBA standard, based on her Ph.
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Priya Narasimhan has developed data-warehouse platforms to help sports teams understand their business operations and to improve the fan experience.
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Priya Narasimhan has developed new augmented-reality experiences for sports teams, along with bridging digital and physical technologies through collaborations with industry partners such as Avery Dennison.
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Priya Narasimhan brings the lessons from her industry experience with YinzCam into her graduate-level Sports Technology course in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, as well as to motivate Ph.
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Priya Narasimhan has worked to incorporate embedded systems into sports through her Football Engineering project that aimed to track the real-time trajectory of footballs, players and other equipment on the field at game-time.
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Priya Narasimhan's teaching involves sports entrepreneurship, and she works with students on their startup ideas, particularly to brings sports-related innovations to life in the market.
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Priya Narasimhan writes a weekly newsletter offering her perspectives on taking products to market.