Her research interests center around environment-aware runtime measurement and performance/security diagnosis of large scale systems, including all levels of the software stack, the underlying hardware platform, and the surrounding data center environment. Dr. Karavanic received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, where she was a member of the Paradyn Parallel Performance Tool Research group, a WARF Fellow, and a NASA GSRP Fellow. She earned her B.A. in Computer Science from New York University.