Biographical Sketch
Kartik Gopalan is a Professor and Associate Chair for Research and Graduate Programs in the Computer Science Department at Binghamton University. He received a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University, M.S. from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and B.E. from Delhi Institute of Technology.

At Binghamton, he heads the Operating Systems and Networks (OSNET) Group where he enjoys working with a highly talented group of students on cool new ways to build and use virtual machines, containers, and hypervisors. Some recent projects include virtualization for bare-metal cloud, live replacement of hypervisors, live migration, and privacy-preserving VMs.

He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service, Watson School Recognition Award for Outstanding Research Achievement, Watson College Recognition Award for Outstanding Faculty Service, Educator of the Year Award (2022), and IEEE TCC Editorial Excellence and Eminence Award. He serves as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He has authored over 70 publications and received 18 US patents. Before joining Binghamton, he was a faculty at Florida State University, Lead Architect and Developer at Rether Networks Inc., and Senior Software Engineer at Wipro Global R&D.