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]