Truchard Foundation Chair Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University
Narasimha Reddy received a B.Tech. degree in Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in August 1985, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in May 1987 and August 1990, respectively.
Reddy’s research interests are in Computer Networks, Storage Systems, Multimedia Systems, and Computer Architecture. During 1990-1995, he was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose. Reddy served as an Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and an Associate Agency Director for Strategic Initiatives in TEES during 2016-21.
Reddy holds five patents and was awarded a technical accomplishment award while at IBM. He received an NSF Career Award in 1996. He was a Faculty Fellow of the College of Engineering at Texas A&M during 1999-2000. His honors include an Outstanding Professor award by the IEEE student branch at Texas A&M during 1997-1998, an Outstanding Faculty award by the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering during 2003-2004, a Distinguished Achievement award for teaching from the Former Students Association of Texas A&M University, and a citation “for one of the most influential papers from the 1st ACM Multimedia Conference”.
Reddy is a Fellow of IEEE Computer Society and is a member of ACM.