Dr. Karuna Pande Joshi

Dr. Karuna Pande Joshi

Professor · Tenured

Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department of Information Systems

College of Engineering and Information Technology

About

Dr. Karuna Pande Joshi is a 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

Education

  • Ph D, Computer Science — University of Maryland, Baltimore County (2012)
    Service lifecycle and negotiation on the cloud, Quality framework for IT Services
  • MS, Computer Science — University of Maryland, Baltimore County (1999)
    Analysis and Mining of Web Logs
  • Other, Computer Engineering — University of Bombay (1993)
    Portable Graphical Interface for Parallel Programs

Publications

  • Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption 2021 IEEE Maithilee Joshi, Karuna Joshi, Timothy W Finin
  • Delegated Authorization Framework for EHR Services using Attribute Based Encryption 2019 IEEE Transactions on Services Computing · Accepted Maithilee Joshi, Karuna Panda Joshi, Timothy W Finin

Presentations

  • LLM based Knowledge Graph Approach to Automating Medical Device Regulatory Compliance 2025 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · IEEE · Paper Subhankar Chattoraj (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Security Compliance for Smart Manufacturing using Knowledgegraph based Digital Twin 2025 2025 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · IEEE · Paper Javed Tamboli (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Ommo Clark (Author)
  • Integrating Knowledge Graphs with Retrieval-Augmented Generation to Automate IoT Device Security Compliance 2025 2025 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) · IEEE · Paper Mohammed Islam (Author & Presenter), Lavanya Elluri (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Evaluating Causal AI Techniques for Health Misinformation Detection 2025 Causal AI for Robust Decision Making (CARD 2025) Workshop, held in conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2025) · ACM · Paper Ommo Clark (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Real-Time Detection of Online Health Misinformation using an Integrated Knowledgegraph-LLM Approach 2025 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2025 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2025 · IEEE · Paper Ommo Clark (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author & Presenter)
  • MedReg-KG: KnowledgeGraph for Streamlining Medical Device Regulatory Compliance 2024 2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · IEEE · Paper Subhankar Chattoraj (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Global Relevance of Online Health Information Sources: A Case Study of Experiences and Perceptions of Nigerians 2024 AMIA 2024 Annual Symposium · AMIA · Paper Ommo Clark (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Tera Reynolds
  • Semantically Rich Approach to Automating Regulations of Medical Devices 2024 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2024 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2024 · IEEE · Paper Shubhankar Chattoraj (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author & Presenter)
  • Exploring the Impact of Increased Health Information Accessibility in Cyberspace on Trust and Self-care Practices 2024 ACM Workshop on Secure and Trustworthy Cyber-Physical Systems (ACM SaT-CPS 2024), · ACM · Paper Ommo Clark (Author & Presenter), Tera Reynolds, Karuna Joshi (Author), E. Ugwuabonyi
  • IoT-Reg: A Comprehensive Knowledge Graph for Real-Time IoT Data Privacy Compliance 2023 2023 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData) · IEEE · Paper Kelvin Echenim (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Ensuring Privacy Policy Compliance of Wearables with IoT Regulations 2023 5th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA) · IEEE · Paper Kelvin Echenim (Author & Presenter), Lavanya Elluri (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Policy Integrated Blockchain to Automate HIPAA Part 2 Compliance 2023 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2023 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2023 · IEEE · Paper James Clavin (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author & Presenter)
  • Semantically Rich Differential Access to Secure Cloud EHR 2023 IEEE 9th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2023) · IEEE · Paper Redwan Walid (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Seung Geol Choi (Author)
  • Semantically Rich Access Control in Cloud EHR Systems Based on MA-ABE 2022 IEEE 8th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2022) · IEEE · Paper Sharad Dixit (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author & Presenter), Seung Geol Choi (Author), Lavanya Elluri (Author)
  • Trusted Compliance Enforcement Framework for Sharing Health Big Data 2021 IEEE BigData 2021 4th Special Session on HealthCare Data · IEEE · Paper Dae-young Kim (Author & Presenter), Lavanya Elluri (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • The Effect of Text Ambiguity on creating Policy Knowledge Graphs 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2021) · IEEE · Paper Ananta Kotal (Author & Presenter), Anupam Joshi (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Secure Cloud EHR with Semantic Access Control, Searchable Encryption and Attribute Revocation 2021 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health (ICDH) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021 · IEEE · Paper Redwan Walid (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Seung Geol Choi (Author)
  • Analyzing GDPR compliance in Cloud Services' privacy policies using Textual Fuzzy Interpretive Structural Modeling (TFISM) 2021 IEEE International Services Computing Conference (SCC) 2021 in IEEE World Congress on Services 2021 · IEEE · Paper Ronak Razavisousan (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • A Semantically Rich Knowledge Graph to Automate HIPAA Regulations for Cloud Health IT Services 2021 IEEE 7th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021) · IEEE · Paper Dae-young Kim (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Automated Compliance of Mobile Wallet Payments for Cloud Services 2021 IEEE 7th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2021) · IEEE · Paper Ankur Nagar (Author & Presenter), Lavanya Elluri (Author), Karuna Joshi (Author)
  • Cloud-based Encrypted EHR System with Semantically Rich Access Control and Searchable Encryption 2020 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). · IEEE · Paper Redwan Walid (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Seung Geol Choi (Author), Dae-young L Kim (Author)
  • Measuring Semantic Similarity across EU GDPR Regulation and Cloud Privacy Policies 2020 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). · IEEE · Paper Lavanya Elluri (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Anantaa Kotal (Author)
  • ViCLOUD: Measuring Vagueness in Cloud Service Privacy Policies and Terms of Services 2020 IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) · IEEE · Paper Anantaa Kotal (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Anupam Joshi (Author)
  • Affinity Propagation Initialisation Based Proximity Clustering For Labeling in Natural Language Based Big Data Systems 2020 IEEE 6th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020) · IEEE · Paper Adithya Bandi (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author), Varish Mulwad (Author)
  • Automating GDPR Compliance using Policy Integrated Blockchain 2020 IEEE 6th Intl Conference on Big Data Security on Cloud (BigDataSecurity 2020) · IEEE · Paper Abhishek Mahindrakar (Author & Presenter), Karuna Joshi (Author)

Grants and Contracts

  • Digital Twin for Wildfire Worldwide 2025 NSF · Grant · Not Funded Karuna Joshi (Principal), Milton Halem (Co-Principal), Charles Ichoku (Co-Principal), Belay B Demoz (Co-Principal), Anupam Joshi (Supporting), Timothy W Finin (Supporting), Adam Bargteil (Supporting)
  • Collaborative Research: FDT-BioTech: Aspects of Digital Twin Studies for Neuroimages 2024 NSF · Grant · Funded Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal), Snigdhansu Chatterjee (Principal), Animikh Biswas (Co-Principal)
  • Optimizing Knowledge Graph Reasoning for High-Performance Computing Environments 2023 DoD · Sponsored Research · Funded Timothy W Finin (Co-Principal), Karuna Joshi (Principal), Anupam Joshi (Principal)
  • Optimizing Knowledge Graph Reasoning for High-Performance Computing Environments 2023 Dod · Sponsored Research · Funded Anupam Joshi (Co-Principal), Timothy W Finin (Co-Principal), Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal)
  • AIM-AHEAD Coordinating Center Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Consortium to Advance Health Equity and Researcher Diversity 2021 NIH · Sponsored Research · Funded David Chapman (Principal), Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal), Anupam Joshi (Co-Principal), Milt Halem (Co-Principal), Yaacov Yesha (Supporting), Phuong Nguyen (Co-Principal)
  • Beyond Watson Research Support 2015 DoD (via supplement to CHPMR I/UCRC) · Grant · Funded Anupam Joshi (Principal), Timothy W Finin (Co-Principal), Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal)
  • Situational Awareness for Cybersecurity -- Cloud Security and Service Agreements 2014 DoD (via NSF supplement to CHMPR) · Grant · Funded Anupam Joshi (Co-Principal), Timothy W Finin (Co-Principal), Karuna Joshi (Principal)
  • AI-Driven Modeling of Clinician Well-Being and Workforce Optimization Using Multi-Modal EHR Data and Knowledge Graphs National Institutes of Health · Grant · Currently Under Review Sun Kai (Principal), Ian Stockwell (Co-Principal), Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal), Jianwu Wang (Co-Principal)
  • The Interconnected Multiscale Connectome: Discovering Biomarkers of Neurodegeneration National Institutes of Health / University of Minnesota · Grant · Currently Under Review Christophe Lenglet (Principal), Karuna Joshi (Co-Principal)

Courses Taught

  • Decision Support Systems IS 425 · Fall 2024
  • Decision Support Systems IS 425 · Fall 2023
  • Decision Support Systems IS 425 · Fall 2021
  • Database Program Dev IS 610 · Spring 2021
  • Intro To Database Design IS 410 · Spring 2021
  • Decision Support Systems IS 425 · Fall 2020
  • Big Data Funda. & Techniques IS 789 · Spring 2020
  • Intro To Database Design IS 410 · Fall 2019
  • Master's Thesis Research (Thesis Research) CMSC 799 · Spring 2016
  • Software Engineering I CMSC 447 · Spring 2016
  • Special Topics – Big Data CMSC 691 · Fall 2015
  • Special Topics – Big Data CMSC 491 · Fall 2015
  • Software Engineering I CMSC 447 · Spring 2014
  • Software Design and Development CMSC 345 · Spring 2013
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