Presenter

Karthik Pattabiraman received his M.S and PhD. degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2004 and 2009 respectively. After a postdoctoral stint at Microsoft Research (Redmond), Karthik joined the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he is an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering. Karthik’s research interests include dependable systems and software engineering. Karthik has won best paper or runner-up awards at the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), 2008, the IEEE International Conference on Software Testing (ICST), 2013 and the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2014. He was also awarded the NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement award in Canada. Karthik is a member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC), 2013 and the IFIP WG 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault Tolerance. He is a senior member of the IEEE.