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Anna Karanika

Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant

CS @ UIUC

Room #3111, Thomas M. Siebel Center

201 N. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL, 61801, USA

annak8@illinois.edu

Skills

C, Java, Python

100%

Git, SQL, OpenMP, CUDA, scikit-learn

90%

C++, Maven, R, MATLAB, Keras, LATEX, HTML, CSS

70%

Go, JavaScript, Scala, Rust, MPI, Tensorflow, PyTorch

50%

Languages

Greek

Native

English

Fluent

French

Basic


About

I am a 5th year Ph.D. student at the Computer Science Department of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working with Professor Indy Gupta as a member of the Distributed Protocols Research Group (DPRG).
Before starting my Ph.D., I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science at the University of Thessaly, Greece.
My main research interests lie in the areas of Distributed Systems, Internet of Things, Edge Computing, State Machine Replication, Cloud Computing, Storage Systems and Software Reliability. Currently, I am working on abstractions for device and automation management in an IoT/Edge setting, optimizing replicated file systems as well as on human-computer interaction aspects of smart homes. You can find my CV here.

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL

Ph.D. in Computer Science
Advised by Indranil Gupta
Distributed Protocols Research Group (DPRG)
August 2020 - Present

University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece

M.Sc. in Computer Science
Advised by Kostas Kolomvatsos
Intelligent Pervasive Systems Research Group (iPRISM)
October 2019 - June 2020

University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Diploma (B.Eng. + M.Eng.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advised by George Stamoulis and Kostas Kolomvatsos
September 2014 - June 2019

Selected Publications

EuroSys '23 Lilia Tang, Chaitanya Bhandari, Yongle Zhang, Anna Karanika, Shuyang Ji, Indranil Gupta, and Tianyin Xu. "Fail through the Cracks: Cross-System Interaction Failures in Modern Cloud Systems." [pdf] [doi] [data/code]
CSUR '21 Panagiotis Oikonomou, Anna Karanika, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Kostas Kolomvatsos. "On the Use of Intelligent Models towards Meeting the Challenges of the Edge Mesh." [doi]
EVOS '21 Madalena Soula, Anna Karanika, Kostas Kolomvatsos, Christos Anagnostopoulos, George Stamoulis. "Intelligent Tasks Allocation at the Edge based on Machine Learning and Bio-Inspired Algorithms." [doi]
CD-MAKE '20 Anna Karanika, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Kostas Kolomvatsos, Christos Anagnostopoulos. "An Ensemble Interpretable Machine Learning Scheme for Securing Data Quality at the Edge." [doi]
FUZZ-IEEE '20 Anna Karanika, Panagiotis Oikonomou, Kostas Kolomvatsos, Thanasis Loukopoulos. "A Demand-driven, Proactive Tasks Management Model at the Edge." [doi]
IDCS '19 Anna Karanika, Madalena Soula, Christos Anagnostopoulos, Kostas Kolomvatsos, George Stamoulis. "Optimized Analytics Query Allocation at the Edge of the Network." [doi]

Conferences Attended

SOSP '21, EuroSys '21, NSDI '21, SoCC '20, IDCS '19

Industrial Experience

AIML Intern
Internship
Apple
Seattle, WA, USA
May 2024 - August 2024
Engineering Intern
Internship
Twitter
San Francisco, CA, USA
May 2022 - August 2022
PLC Programmer and SCADA Designer
Internship
APOSTOLAKIS Engineering
Farsala, Greece
July 2017 - August 2017