Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Indian experimental computer scientist
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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]
Coda File System
Mobile Computing
Edge Computing
Internet of Things[1]
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
Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya) | |
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| Education | 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 |
| Workplaces | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Thesis | A methodology for modeling storage systems and its application to a network file system (1983) |
| William Wulf, George G. Robertson | |
| Website | https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya/ |
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]
In 2025, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.[13]