Katia Obraczka is Professor of Computer Engineering and her main research focus is in computer networking. She is working with other SSRC faculty on ways to deploy large-scale storage systems using commodity networks. She received her B.S. and M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She received her M.S and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1990 and 1994