Presenter

Karthik Pattabiraman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He received a PhD in 2009 in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), an MS in computer science also from UIUC in 2004, and a B. Tech from the University of Madras, India, in 2001. Before joining UBC in 2010, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond. Karthik’s research interests are in dependable computer systems, high-performance computing, cyber-physical systems and software security.

Karthik has won awards such as the Inaugural IEEE Rising Star in Dependability Award, UIUC CS Department’s Early Career Alumni Achievement Award, the UBC Killam Award for Excellence in Mentoring, the UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize and the Killam Faculty Research Fellowship, the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) in Canada, and the William C. Carter PhD Dissertation Award.

Karthik is vice-chair of the IFIP Working Group (WG) 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-tolerance, and a member of the steering committee of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). He is a distinguished member of the ACM, a distinguished contributor of the IEEE Computer Society, and a professional engineer (P.Eng.) in Canada. More info at: https://blogs.ubc.ca/karthik/