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 the 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 is currently a J.W. Runyon Professor in the department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering at Texas A & M University. 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, where he worked on projects related 
to disk arrays, multiprocessor communication, hierarchical storage systems 
and video servers. 


Reddy holds five patents and was awarded a technical accomplishment award
while at IBM. He has 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 Acheivement 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.