Prof P. J. Narayanan is a familiar name and face in the technology city of Hyderabad. An IIT Kharagpur and University of Maryland alumnus, he has an enviable career track with Carnegie Mellon University, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Bangalore before he joined IIIT Hyderabad, where he is now the Director. A passionate tech-educator, he is known for his work in Computer Vision, Computer Graphics, and GPU Computing. A CUDA and INAE Fellow, Prof Narayanan has been the President of Association of Computer Machinery India.