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We recorded a video about the CarbonFirst project! (View it here.)

Congrats to Walid A. Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, Noman Bashir, David Irwin and Prashant Shenoy for receiving the best student paper award for CarbonScaler at ACM SIGMETRICS / IFIP Performance 2024. (view paper here)

Congrats to Diptyaroop Maji, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Ramesh Sitaraman for receiving the best paper runner-up award for The Green Mirage at ACM e-Energy 2024. (view paper here)

Our 2012 e-Energy paper “SmartCharge: Cutting the Electricity Bill in Smart Homes with Energy Storage” won the 2024 ACM e-Energy Test of Time award.

NSF Expeditions in Computing project funded on “Computational Decarbonization of Societal Infrastructures at Mesoscales.”

Congrats to Bhawana Chhaglani who was selected as one of the 2024 ML and Systems Rising Stars.

Congrats to Bin Wang who was awarded a UMass CICS Dissertation Writing Fellowship.

Anupama Sitaraman awarded UMass Rising Researcher award.

Prashant Shenoy named Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association Fellow.

Congrats to Priyanka Mammen who was awarded a UMass CICS Dissertation Writing Fellowship.

Co-chaired ACM SigEnergy workshop on Societal Decarbonization

Tergel Molom-Ochir awarded UMass Rising Researcher award.

Adam Lechowicz awarded DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship. Congrats!

Congrats to Akanksha Atrey who is awarded a 2023 UMass CICS Dissertation Writing Fellowship.

Keynote talk on Edge computing at IEEE Milcom workshop on IoT.

Co-chaired ACM SigEnergy workshop on Society, Climate and Sustainability.

LASS helps host Turing Summer Program for local high school students.

Two NSF medium grants awarded on edge computing and IoT.

Adam Lechowicz awarded UMass Rising Researcher award.

Distinguished Lecture on decarbonizing computing at Juniper Networks.

Tian Guo awarded CICS Outstanding Young Alumni award.

Congrats to Tian Guo who is awarded the 2022 UMass CICS Outstanding Young Alumni award!

Smart Energy Management: A Computational Approach is published, authored by Krithi Ramamritham, Gopinath Karmarkar, and Prashant Shenoy.

Congrats to Akanksha Atrey who is awarded the 2021 UMass CICS Outstanding Teaching Assistant award.

Congrats to Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj, John Wamburu, David Irwin and Prashant Shenoy for receiving the best paper runner-up award for VPeak at ACM BuildSys 2021. (view paper here)

Prashant Shenoy will deliver a keynote talk at the 2022 ACM FATEsys workshop.

Joint project on distributed energy resources with John Hopkins and Caltech is successfully funded by NSF grant.

Our CarbonFirst project on sustainable cloud computing is successfully funded by NSF and VMware.

Prashant Shenoy co-founded ACM Special Interest Group on Energy (SIGEnergy).

Congrats to Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy for being nominated by ACM/IEE Supercomputing 2020 for the best paper and best student paper awards. (view paper here)

Congrats to Amee Trivedi, Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj, Joseph Breda, Prashant Shenoy, Jay Taneja and David Irwin for receiving the best paper award for ISGC 2020. (view paper here)

Congrats to Prashant Shenoy for being awarded the Distinguished Professor rank.

Congrats to Rishikesh Jha, Stephen Lee, Srinivasan Iyengar, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, David Irwin and Prashant Shenoy for receiving the best paper runner-up award for ACM e-Energy. (view paper here)

Congrats to Prashant Shenoy for receiving the Conti Research Fellowship.

Congrats to Ahmed Aley who will be joining Chalmers University as an Assistant Professor.

Congrats to Stephen Lee who is awarded the 2020 UMass CICS Outstanding Dissertation award.

Congrats to Prashant Shenoy for being selected a Fellow of the ACM.

Congrats to Stephen Lee and Vani Gupta who successfully defended their Ph.d thesis.

Congrats to Ahmed Ali-Eldin, Jonathan Westin, Bin Wang, Prateek Sharma, Prashant Shenoy. Their HPDC 2019 SpotWeb paper was a Best Paper Finalist. (view paper here)

Congrats to Vani Gupta, Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh K. Sitaraman for receiving the best paper award for ACM e-Energy 2019. (view paper here)

Congrats to Stephen Lee, Jeremy Gummeson and Vani Gupta who will join the faculty at University of Pittburgh, University of Massachusetts ECE and Providence College, respectively.

Prashant Shenoy will deliver a keynote talk at the 2019 CPSWeek Fog-IoT workshop.

Congrats to Prateek Sharma who is awarded the 2019 UMass CICS Outstanding Dissertation award.

Resource Deflation paper accepted at 2019 ACM Eurosys.

Prashant Shenoy will be the new Director of the UMass Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM).

Congrats to Srinivasan Iyengar for joining Microsoft Research India as a post-doctoral researcher.

Congrats to Prateek Sharma for being nominated for ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award.

Congrats to Prateek for accepting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Indiana University, Bloomington.

Srinivasan Iyengar successfully defended his thesis.

Prashant Shenoy to host P. Anandan, CEO of Wadhwani AI, for the Future series talk.

Paper on programmable solar accepted to BuildSys 2018.

Prateek Sharma successfully defended his thesis.

Prashant Shenoy to deliver Distinguished Lecture at Colorado State University.

Our WattHome paper accepted to KDD 2018.

Our 2005 Sigmetrics paper won the 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time award.

Google Research Award announced on enhancing the value of preemptible instances.

MGHPCC Net Zero Solar Data Center Groundbreaking.

• Featured on Masslive.
• UMass Weekly Newsletter and Video.
• Write-up’s in Data Center Knowledge, ComputerWeekly.com, Hampshire Gazette, and 22 News.

Our paper SpotLight accepted at ICDCS 2016.

Flint paper accepted to EuroSys.

NSF Grant on Improving Privacy in Smart Homes and Buildings.

Two papers accepted to ICPE.

Stephen and Srini’s Solartopia project wins the UMass Hackathon.

NSF grant on creating utility-driven smart energy driven services announced.

Lucas joined as a M.S/ Ph.D Student.

HPDC paper accepted.

Video BenchLab 3.0 released.

Eurosys paper accepted.

LASS research was featured in ResearchNext.

Two papers selected as top three papers in Buildsys.

Patrick joined as a BayState scholar.

Benoy Varghese joins as a visiting researcher from NICTA.

Program chair for ACM Buildsys 2013 and ACM e-Energy 2014.

mBenchLab gets Best paper award at ACM/IEEE IWQOS.

Keynote talk at ACM GreenMetrics.

Best paper runner-up at ACM e-Energy 2013.

Keynote talk at ACM ICPE.

4.5M award from MLSC for MGHPCC life sciences cluster.

R. Singh to join IBM Watson.

Lab alums Tim Wood and David Irwin get NSF Career awards.

Yank paper accepted at NSDI.

Selected as IEEE fellow.

MRI MGHPCC Cluster awarded.

D. Irwin to join UMass ECE as Asst Professor;

U. Sharma to join IBM Watson.

SmartCap paper presented in Percom Best papers session.

GreenNet paper wins best paper.

Comsnets paper makes best paper.

Upendra Sharma awarded a prestigious IBM Fellowship.

Papers accepted at Eurosys, ASPLOS, Sigmod and VLDB.

3LM, company co-founded by Lass alum Gaurav Mathur acquired by Motorola. (Read more)

Industry grants from IBM and NEC. Thank you to our sponsors.

Papers accepted at ACM MMSys, VEE, Infocom.

GENI grant on cloud control.

Prashant Shenoy named Distinguished member of the ACM.

Prashant Shenoy promoted to Full Professor.

Papers accepted at INFOCOM, VEE, ICDE, and EWSN.

GENI grant for Sensor Virtualization awarded.

Peter Desnoyers wins department’s Yahoo Outstanding Thesis Award and nominated for ACM Dissertation Award.

Peter Desnoyers joins Northeastern University as Assistant Professor.

Emmanuel Cecchet joins LASS as Senior Research Fellow.

Rick Cocci defends MS thesis and joins State Street.

Aditya Nemmaluri defends MS thesis and joins Cisco.

Peter Desnoyers defends Ph.D thesis and joins VMware.

Puru Kulkarni defends Ph.D thesis. To join IIT Bombay as Assistant Professor.

Ferret RFID paper featured in the news.

RFID Tag Spotter. Technology Research Magazine describes Ferret project.

Xiaotao Liu defends Ph.D thesis; joins EMC as Senior Research Scientist.

Li Huan defends PhD thesis; to join Beihang University, Beijing as Associate Professor.

Capsule paper to appear at Sensys’06.

Ferret RFID paper to appear at Ubicomp.

Puru Kulkarni to join IIT Bombay as Asst. Professor, Xiaotao Liu to join EMC Advanced Technology Labs as Sr. Research Scientist.

Deepak Ganesan receives NSF Career award.

Xiaotao Liu receives Best Paper award at ACM Multimedia 2005. SensEye paper is a Best Student Paper Finalist.

Vijay Sundaram defends his Ph.D. thesis. Will join Microsoft.

Bhuvan Urgaonkar defends his Ph.D. thesis.

Two papers nominated for awards. Puru Kulkarni’s SensEye paper nominated for Best Student paper at ACM Multimedia. Xiaotao Liu’s SEVA paper nominated for Best Paper at the conference.

Abhishek Chandra’s Ph.D. thesis nominated for the ACM Best Dissertation Award by the department.

Bhuvan gets Best Student paper award at Autonomic Computing conference.

Bhuvan Urgaonkar to join Penn State as Assistant Professor.

Sensor group web site goes online.

Arun Venkataramani joins as Assistant Professor.

The UMass Trace Repository goes online.

Abhishek Chandra joins Univ of Minnesota as Asst. Professor.

Abhishek Chandra successfully defends his Ph.D thesis.

Deepak Ganesan joins as Assistant Professor.

Prashant Shenoy promoted to Associated Professor.

W3C works on standards development. An InfoWorld article touches upon on our World Wide Web paper on Adaptive Push Pull of Dynamiata.

Pull or push: How about both?. An article on CNN.com on our adaptive push pull paper. Also featured on Computer World Hong Kong.

Researcher at WWW10 proposes ‘push and pull’ protocol. The above story was first featured on IDG.net technology news.

The Changing Rules of the Storage Game. A ComputerWorld article on our “Rules of Thumb” paper that appeared in ICDE 2001.

Shenoy Receives NSF CAREER Award. An article in the August 25th issue of The Campus Chronicle.