Priya Narasimhan – Page 2 of 2 – Entrepreneur. Engineer. Educator. Page 2

100 students, 5 time zones, 10,000 miles apart. This summer,

Personal

I want to be a coach, not an advice monster

A good part of my job involves giving advice on a daily basis. As a professor,

PhDs

Learning to think inside the box (of scientific assumptions)

Behind every research result is a box of assumptions. That box is a set of constraints for your research. These constraints breed creativity. It’s important to learn to think creatively inside that box, instead of worrying about the box, the size of the box, or that the box even exists. View the box of assumptions […]

PhDs

When your research hands you lemons

When you try something in research and it doesn’t work out, when you hit a research dead-end, tell the world. Shout it out from the rooftops. Write the paper you wish you had read before you went down the wrong path. Get a publication out of your research dead-end. Write about the negative result. Write […]

Personal

Bad examples are powerful teachers

Bad examples are powerful teachers.
Good examples are aspirational, but bad examples are practical.

Personal

What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger

Hercules went in search of the things that would be painful,

Careers

Who carries your paper into the room where decisions get made?

Who carries your paper into the room? Today, I listened to a remarkable TED talk from Carla Harris on How to find the person who can help you get ahead at work. There’s no question that you want to have a mentor for your professional life. A mentor tells you the good, the bad, the […]

Personal

I saw a sign, I opened up my eyes, I saw a sign

His words stayed with me and changed something in me.

PhDs

A Ph.D. student’s manual: The tactical, the strategic, the emotional

What I would tell my younger Ph.D. self about how to handle the day-to-day aspects, the longer-term aspects, and the emotional aspects of a Ph.D. career.