Assistant Professor, Information Systems
UMBC Site Director, Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA)
Karuna Pande Joshi’s primary research area is Data Science, Cloud Computing and Healthcare IT systems. She has developed a framework to automate the acquisition and consumption of cloud based services. She teaches courses in Software Engineering and Systems Design. She received her MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UMBC, where she was twice awarded the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, and her Bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India.
She is the director of the Knowledge, Analytics, Cognitive and Cloud Computing (KnACC) Lab. She is also affiliated with UMBC’s Ebiquity Research Group .
Dr. Joshi also has extensive experience of working in the industry primarily as an IT manager. She worked at the International Monetary Fund for nearly a decade. She has also worked for MORENet, Missouri and Silverline Industries Ltd. in India. Her managerial experience includes IT portfolio management, program/project management, and change management.
Her extensive industrial and research experience provides her a deep understanding of the practical issues faced by organizations that are transitioning or plan to move their IT systems to the Cloud.
Current Research Projects
Contact
Office: ITE 424
E-mail: karuna.joshi@umbc.edu