Lata Narayanan

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]

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. ^ a b c d Narayanan, Lata (1992), Selection, Sorting, and Routing on Mesh-Connected Processor Arrays, University of Rochester, hdl:1802/815
  3. ^ a b c "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