Karthik Pattabiraman

Karthik Pattabiraman is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada. He received his 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 B. Tech. from the University of Madras, India, in 2001. Before joining UBC, he was a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research in 2009. Karthik’s research interests are in dependable computer systems, computer security, cyber-physical systems and software engineering. Karthik has won awards such as the Inaugural Rising Star in Dependability Award in 2020, UIUC CS department’s early career alumni achievement award in 2018, UBC Killam mentoring excellence award in 2020, UBC Killam Faculty Research Prize in 2018, UBC Killam Faculty Research Fellowship in 2016, NSERC Discovery Accelerator Supplement (DAS) in 2015, and the William Carter Dissertation Award in 2008. His students have won awards such as the SPEC Kaivalya Dixit Distinguished Dissertation award, the William Carter dissertation award in dependability, and the SIGHPC distinguished dissertation award (honorable mention). Karthik is a member of the IFIP Working Group (WG) 10.4 on Dependable Computing and Fault-tolerance (vice-chair from 2019-2021), 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, and a distinguished contributor of the IEEE Computer Society.

Topics: Convolutional Neural Network, Deep Neural Network, Defect Model, Machine Learning Models

Region: North America

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