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Dr. Utkalika Satapathy is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at IIIT Bhubaneswar. She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur under the supervision of Prof. Sandip Chakraborty and was a member of the Ubiquitous Networked Systems (UbiNet) Lab. Her doctoral research focused on Provenance and Observability Frameworks for Secure Distributed Microservices, addressing challenges in security, attack investigation, and system observability for large-scale distributed applications.

Her research interests span Systems, Distributed Systems, Security, Observability, and Provenance Tracking. She is particularly interested in building secure, observable, and trustworthy infrastructures for modern cloud-native and microservice-based applications. Her current work explores operating-system and kernel-level technologies, including eBPF (Extended Berkeley Packet Filter), Linux Security Modules (LSMs), Loadable Kernel Modules (LKMs), and system-level observability frameworks for security monitoring, root-cause analysis, and automated incident investigation.

Dr. Satapathy's research has been published in leading venues, including IEEE INFOCOM, COMSNETS, and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing. Her work on provenance tracking for distributed microservices received the Best Paper Honourable Mention Award at COMSNETS 2025. She has also contributed to several collaborative research initiatives with industry partners, including IBM Research and Ericsson Research, helping bridge the gap between academic research and real-world systems deployment.

Her broader research vision is to develop scalable, practical, and deployable systems that enhance the security, reliability, and explainability of next-generation distributed computing platforms.

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