Mahadev Satyanarayanan

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Mahadev Satyanarayanan (Satya)
Born	1953
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
Awards	ACM Software System Award ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award ACM Fellow IEEE Fellow
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 "Satya" Satyanarayanan is an Indian experimental computer scientist, an ACM^[1] and IEEE^[2] fellow, and the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU).^[3]

He is credited with many advances in edge computing, distributed systems, mobile computing, pervasive computing, and the Internet of Things. His research focus is on performance, scalability, availability, and trust challenges in computing systems from the cloud to the mobile edge.

His work on the Andrew File System (AFS) was recognized with the ACM Software System Award in 2016 and the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2008 for its influence and impact. His work on disconnected operation in the Coda File System received the ACM SIGOPS Hall of Fame Award in 2015 and the inaugural ACM SIGMOBILE Test-of-Time Award in 2016.^{[citation needed]}