Lata Narayanan

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Lata Narayanan (born 1966) is an Indian-Canadian computer scientist whose research concerns distributed algorithms and wireless ad hoc networks. She is a professor and chair of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University in Montreal. [1]

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Early life and education

Narayanan is originally from Chennai, where she was born in 1966. [2] She went to high school in New Delhi, [2] and is a 1987 graduate of the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, [3] majoring in computer science. [2]

Next, she traveled to the University of Rochester in the US for graduate study in computer science, earning a master's degree in 1989 and completing her Ph.D. in 1992. [3] Her dissertation, Selection, Sorting, and Routing on Mesh-Connected Processor Arrays, was supervised by Danny Krizanc. [2]

Career

After postdoctoral research at the University of Manitoba, Narayanan joined the Concordia University faculty in 1993. [3]

Before taking her current role as department chair, she was associate dean for academic programs in the Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, stepping down in 2012. [4]

References

  1. ↑ "Lata Narayanan", Faculty, Concordia University, retrieved 2023-02-20
  2. 1 2 3 4 Narayanan, Lata (1992), Selection, Sorting, and Routing on Mesh-Connected Processor Arrays, University of Rochester, hdl:1802/815
  3. 1 2 3 "Lata Narayanan", IEEE Xplore, IEEE, retrieved 2023-02-20
  4. ↑ Tribute to Lata Narayanan, Concordia University Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, June 4, 2012, retrieved 2023-02-20
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