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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]
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]
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]
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