Mahadev Satyanarayanan

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Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya)
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Alma mater Carnegie Mellon University (Ph.D.), IIT Madras (M.Tech., B.Tech.)
Known for Andrew File System
Coda File System
Mobile Computing
Edge Computing
Internet of Things [1]
Awards ACM Software System Award
ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award (2008 and 2015)
ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award (2016, 2018, 2020, 2022, and 2024)
ACM Fellow
IEEE Fellow
Member, National Academy of Engineering
Scientific career
Fields Edge Computing, Mobile Computing, Internet of Things, Distributed File Systems
Institutions Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis A methodology for modeling storage systems and its application to a network file system  (1983)
Doctoral advisor William Wulf, George G. Robertson
Website https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/

Mahadev Satyanarayanan is an American experimental computer scientist, an ACM [2] and IEEE [3] fellow, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and the Jaime Carbonell University Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). [4] [5]

He is credited with advances in mobile computing, edge computing, Internet of Things and the distributed systems. [6] [7] [8] He is known for publishing the first paper on the topic of edge computing, “The Case for VM-Based Cloudlets in Mobile Computing” in 2009. [8] [9] He is also known for publishing the first paper (in 1997) on offloading AI tasks such as speech recognition from resource-poor mobile devices to resource-rich infrastructure [10] [11] -More details on his technical contributions can be found on his web site. [12]

References

  1. Mahadev Satyanarayanan. "Research Biography" (PDF). Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  2. "Mahadev Satyanarayanan". awards.acm.org. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  3. "IEEE Fellows Directory - Chronological Listing". IEEE . Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  4. "Mahadev Satyanarayanan | Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science". www.cs.cmu.edu. 2015-10-15. Retrieved 2018-03-18.
  5. University, Carnegie Mellon. "Mahadev Satyanarayanan - Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology - Carnegie Mellon University". www.cmu.edu. Archived from the original on 2025-07-14. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  6. "Carnegie Mellon Researchers Tap Edge Computing to Resolve Real-World Challenges". statetechmagazine.com. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  7. "Mahadev Satyanarayanan: Computing at the Cloud's Edge". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  8. 1 2 "Edge Computing". Microsoft Research. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  9. "CSDL | IEEE Computer Society". www.computer.org. Retrieved 2025-09-13.
  10. Noble, Brian; Satyanarayanan, M.; Narayanan, Dushyanth; Tilton, Eric; Flinn, Jason; Walker, Kevin (1997-10-01). "Agile Application-Aware Adaptation for Mobility". dl.acm.org.
  11. Noble, Brian D.; Satyanarayanan, M.; Narayanan, Dushyanth; Tilton, James Eric; Flinn, Jason; Walker, Kevin R. (1997-10-01). "Agile application-aware adaptation for mobility". Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles. SOSP '97. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery: 276–287. doi:10.1145/268998.266708. ISBN   978-0-89791-916-6.
  12. "Working Code Trumps All Hype". www.cs.cmu.edu. Retrieved 2025-09-13.