Mahadev Satyanarayanan

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]

Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya)
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/

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]