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.
[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.
[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.