Katia Obraczka is a professor of computer science and engineering at UC Santa Cruz. Her research and teaching interests include computer networks, distributed systems, internet information systems, and operating systems. She is the director of the Inter-Networking Research Group, i-NRG, which conducts research on computer communication networks, including the Internet and the internets of the future. i-NRG research focuses on the design, implementation, evaluation and testing of network protocols and services spanning wired- and wireless networks, including wireless multi-hop ad-hoc networks, wireless sensor networks, delay- and disruption-tolerant networks and IoT.