Karthik received his M.S. and PhD degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Karthik has been a post-doctoral researcher at Microsoft Research (MSR), Redmond. Karthik’s research spans the areas of web applications’ reliability, software fault tolerance for hardware faults and security. He was awarded the William Carter award for best student paper in DSN 2008, the best paper runner up award at ICST 2013, and the SIGSOFT distinguished paper award at ICSE 2014. He was recently general chair for PRDC 2013 in Vancouver, BC.