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Karuna Pande Joshi

Karuna Pande Joshi

Associate Professor

Information Systems

Information Technology & Engineering 424

Education

Ph D University of Maryland, Baltimore County 2012

MS University of Maryland, Baltimore County 1999

Bachelor of Engineering University of Bombay 1993

karuna.joshi@umbc.edu

+1 410 455 8775

About

Dr. Karuna Pande Joshi is an Associate Professor of Information Systems and UMBC Director of the Center for Accelerated Real Time Analytics (CARTA). She also directs the Knowledge Analytics Cognitive and Cloud (KnACC) Lab. Her research focus is in the areas of Data Science, Cloud Computing, Data Compliance and Privacy, and Healthcare IT systems. She has published over 80 papers, and her research is supported by ONR, NSF, DoD, GE Research, and Cisco. She received her MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from UMBC, where she was awarded the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship, and her Bachelors in Computer Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India. Dr. Joshi also has extensive experience working in the industry, primarily as an IT Program/Project Manager at the International Monetary Fund.

Research Interests

Cloud Computing, Data Science, Text Analytics, Cybersecurity Analytics, Security and Privacy of Cloud Data

Teaching Interests

Big Data and Cloud Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Databases, Software Engineering, Legal Aspects of Information Systems

Selected Classes
  • Fall 2023 IS 425 – Decision Support Systems
  • Fall 2021 IS 425 – Decision Support Systems
  • Spring 2021 IS 410 – Intro To Database Design
  • IS 610 – Database Program Dev
  • Fall 2020 IS 425 – Decision Support Systems
  • Spring 2020 IS 789 – Big Data Funda. & Techniques
  • Fall 2019 IS 410 – Intro To Database Design
  • Spring 2016 CMSC 447 – Software Engineering I
  • CMSC 799 – Master's Thesis Research (Thesis Research)
  • Fall 2015 CMSC 691 – Special Topics – Big Data
  • CMSC 491 – Special Topics – Big Data
  • Spring 2014 CMSC 447 – Software Engineering I
  • Spring 2013 CMSC 345 – Software Design and Development

Contracts, Fellowships, Grants, and Sponsored Research

Joshi, Anupam (Co-Principal), Finin, Timothy W. (Co-Principal), Joshi, Karuna (Principal). “Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity -- Cloud Security and Service Agreements,” Grant (Funded). Sponsored By: DoD (via NSF supplement to CHMPR). (Jul 1, 2014 – Dec 31, 2018).

Joshi, Anupam (Principal), Finin, Timothy W. (Co-Principal), Joshi, Karuna (Co-Principal). “Beyond Watson Research Support,” Grant (Funded). Sponsored By: DoD (via supplement to CHPMR I/UCRC). (Aug 1, 2015 – Aug 31, 2017).

Chapman, David (Principal), Joshi, Karuna (Co-Principal), Joshi, Anupam (Co-Principal), Halem, Milt (Co-Principal), Yesha, Yaacov (Supporting), Nguyen, Phuong (Co-Principal). “AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity,” Sponsored Research (Funded). Sponsored By: NIH. (Sep 1, 2021 – Dec 31, 2022).

Intellectual Contributions

Joshi, Maithilee, Joshi, Karuna, Finin, Timothy W. (2021). Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption. IEEE.

Joshi, Maithilee, Joshi, Karuna Panda., Finin, Timothy W. (2019). Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.

Presentations

Echenim, Kelvin (Author & Presenter), Elluri, Lavanya (Author), Joshi, Karuna (Author). 5th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA). Paper. "Ensuring Privacy Policy Compliance of Wearables with IoT Regulations," IEEE. (Dec 16, 2023).

Echenim, Kelvin (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author). 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData). Paper. "IoT-Reg: A Comprehensive Knowledge Graph for Real-Time IoT Data Privacy Compliance," IEEE. (Dec 16, 2023).

Clavin, James (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author & Presenter). IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2023 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2023. Paper. "Policy Integrated Blockchain to Automate HIPAA Part 2 Compliance," IEEE. (Jul 1, 2023).

Walid, Redwan (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author), Choi, Seung Geol (Author). IEEE 9th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2023). Paper. "Semantically Rich Differential Access to Secure Cloud EHR," IEEE. (May 1, 2023).

Dixit, Sharad (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author & Presenter), Choi, Seung Geol (Author), Elluri, Lavanya (Author). IEEE 8th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2022). Paper. "Semantically Rich Access Control in Cloud EHR Systems Based on MA-ABE," IEEE. (May 1, 2022).

Kim, Dae-young (Author & Presenter), Elluri, Lavanya (Author), Joshi, Karuna (Author). IEEE BigData 2021 4th Special Session on HealthCare Data. Paper. "Trusted Compliance Enforcement Framework for Sharing Health Big Data," IEEE. (Dec 1, 2021).

Kotal, Ananta (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Anupam (Author), Joshi, Karuna (Author). IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2021). Paper. "The Effect of Text Ambiguity on creating Policy Knowledge Graphs," IEEE. (Oct 1, 2021).

Razavisousan, Ronak (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author). IEEE International Services Computing Conference (SCC) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021. Paper. "Analyzing GDPR compliance in Cloud Services' privacy policies using Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling (TFISM)," IEEE. (Sep 1, 2021).

Walid, Redwan (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author), Choi, Seung Geol (Author). IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021. Paper. "Secure Cloud EHR with Semantic Access Control, Searchable Encryption and Attribute Revocation," IEEE. (Sep 1, 2021).

Nagar, Ankur (Author & Presenter), Elluri, Lavanya (Author), Joshi, Karuna (Author). IEEE 7th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021). Paper. "Automated Compliance of Mobile Wallet Payments for Cloud Services," IEEE. (May 1, 2021).

Kim, Dae-young (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author). IEEE 7th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021). Paper. "A Semantically Rich Knowledge Graph to Automate HIPAA Regulations for Cloud Health IT Services," IEEE. (May 1, 2021).

Elluri, Lavanya (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author), Kotal, Anantaa (Author). 7th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2020), in conjunction with 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020).. Paper. "Measuring Semantic Similarity across EU GDPR Regulation and Cloud Privacy Policies," IEEE. (Dec 1, 2020).

Walid, Redwan (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author), Choi, Seung Geol (Author), Kim, Dae-young L (Author). 7th International Workshop on Privacy and Security of Big Data (PSBD 2020), in conjunction with 2020 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2020).. Paper. "Cloud-based Encrypted EHR System with Semantically Rich Access Control and Searchable Encryption," IEEE. (Dec 1, 2020).

Kotal, Anantaa (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author), Joshi, Anupam (Author). IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD). Paper. "ViCLOUD: Measuring Vagueness in Cloud Service Privacy Policies and Terms of Services," IEEE. (Oct 1, 2020).

Mahindrakar, Abhishek (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author). IEEE 6th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020). Paper. "Automating GDPR Compliance using Policy Integrated Blockchain," IEEE. (May 1, 2020).

Bandi, Adithya (Author & Presenter), Joshi, Karuna (Author), Mulwad, Varish (Author). IEEE 6th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020). Paper. "Affinity Propagation Initialisation Based Proximity Clustering For Labeling in Natural Language Based Big Data Systems," IEEE. (May 1, 2020).