Ada Gavrilovska is an associate professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia Tech, where she also completed her PhD in 2004. She directs the Kernel research group, which focuses on performance, scalability and efficiency problems across the systems software stack, including operating, distributed, and high-performance computing systems. Her recent research is centered around the areas of edge computing and memory-centric computing. Gavrilovska's research is supported by the National Science Foundation, the US Department of Energy, and through many industry awards, including from Cisco, HPE, IBM, Intel, Intercontinental Exchange, LexisNexis, VMware, and others.