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Research Group: PANIC Laboratory

Current Projects:

• Parasol: Rutgers's Green uDatacenter
• RelaxedQ: Searching Personal Information Management Systems
• Living-Learning Community for Women in Computer Science at Rutgers

Recent Publications:

• Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters. FAST 2016. Best paper award.
• Related ZDNet article.
• Invited presentation at USENIX ATC 2016
• Invited presentation at SDC 2016
• GreenCassandra: Using Renewable Energy in Distributed Structured Storage Systems. IGSC 2015.
• Grid-Aware Placement of Datacenters and Wind Farms. IGSC 2015.
• CoolProvision: Underprovisioning Datacenter Cooling. SoCC 2015.
• GreenPar: Scheduling Parallel High Performance Applications in Green Datacenters. ICS 2015.
• ApproxHadoop: Bringing Approximations to MapReduce Frameworks. ASPLOS 2015.
• CoolAir: Temperature- and Variation-Aware Management for Free-Cooled Datacenters. ASPLOS 2015.
• Matching Renewable Energy Supply and Demand in Green Datacenters. Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, Special Issue on Energy-Aware Data Centres: Architecture, Infrastructure, and Communication, Volume 25, Part B, February 2015.

Recent Activities:

• IEEE International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS 2017), PC member
• ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems (APSys 2017), PC member
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2017), PC member
• Greenmetrics Workshop 2017, Co-organizer
• Summit on Scalability and Diversity in Computer Science Education 2017, Co-organizer
• Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPERF 2017), PC member
• IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2017), PC member
• International Green and Sustainable Computing Confernece (IGSC) 2016 , PC member
• IEEE International Conference on Computing and Communication Technologies (RIVF) 2016 , PC member
• International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN) 2016 , PC member
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2016 , PC Track Chair
• International Workshop on Big Data and Cloud Performance (DCPref) 2016 , PC member
• ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2016 , PC member
• GreenMetrics Workshop 2016 , Co-organizer
• Summit on Scalability and Diversity in CS 2016, Co-organizer.

Honors & Awards:

• Environmental Conditions and Disk Reliability in Free-cooled Datacenters. FAST 2016. Best paper award.
• Designing and Managing Datacenters Powered by Renewable Energy.  IEEE Micro Top Picks 2014.
• PlanetP: Using Gossiping to Build Content Addressable Peer-to-Peer Information Sharing Communities.  HPDC, 2003.  Republished in "Best Papers From The Last 20 Years of HPDC", 2012.
• Capping the Brown Energy Consumption of Internet Services at Low Cost.  IGCC 2010.  Best paper award.  Also IEEE Sustainable Computing Register (Newsletter of the Computer Society Technical Community on Sustainable Computing) Pick of the Month, April 2012.
• CAREER: Recipe for the Taming of a Chimaera: Toward No-Futz Computing.  NSF CNS.  2005-2010.

Current Students:

• Guangyan Hu
• William Katsak
• Ioannis Manousakis (Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini)
• Abu Awal Md Shoeb
• Daniela Vianna (Co-advised by Amelie Marian)

Students Graduated:

• Md Ehtesamul Haque (PhD, 2016, Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini): post-doc at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
• Cheng Li (PhD, 2015, Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini): VMWare.
• Andrew Tjang (PhD, 2014): Rutgers University.
• Kien Le (PhD, 2012, Co-advised by Ricardo Bianchini): A10 Networks.
• Wei Wang (PhD, 2010, Co-advised by Amelie Marian): Electronic Arts.
• Christopher Peery (PhD, 2009): Amazon.
• Kiran Nagaraja (PhD, 2005): Ericsson Research.
• Tuan Phan (MS, 2005): EBay.
• Francisco Matias Cuenca-Acuna (PhD, 2004): Intel Argentina Software Design Center.
• Zhijun He (MS, 2004)
• Samian Kaur (MS, 2001)