May 2021: Our CarbonFirst project on sustainable cloud computing is successfully funded by NSF and VMware.
Feb 2021: Prashant Shenoy co-founded ACM Special Interest Group on Energy (SIGEnergy).
2020
Nov 2020: 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)
Oct 2020: 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)
Jul 2020: Congrats to Prashant Shenoy for being awarded the Distinguished Professor rank.
Jun 2020: 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)
Apr 2020: Congrats to Prashant Shenoy for receiving the Conti Research Fellowship.
Apr 2020: Congrats to Ahmed Aley who will be joining Chalmers University as an Assistant Professor.
Mar 2020: Congrats to Stephen Lee who is awarded the 2020 UMass CICS Outstanding Dissertation award.
2019
Dec 2019: Congrats to Prashant Shenoy for being selected a Fellow of the ACM.
Jul 2019: Congrats to Vani Gupta, Prashant Shenoy and Ramesh K. Sitaraman for receiving the best paper award for ACM e-Energy 2019. (view paper here)
Jul 2019: 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)
Jul 2019:Congrats to Stephen Lee and Vani Gupta who successfully defended their Ph.d thesis.
Jun 2019: 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.
Mar 2019: Congrats to Prateek Sharma who is awarded the 2019 UMass CICS Outstanding Dissertation award.
Mar 2019: Prashant Shenoy will deliver a keynote talk at the 2019 CPSWeek Fog-IoT workshop.
2018
Dec 2018: Resource Deflation paper accepted at 2019 ACM Eurosys.
Nov 2018: Prashant Shenoy will be the new Director of the UMass Center for Personalized Health Monitoring (CPHM).
Oct 2018: Congrats to Srinivasan Iyengar for joining Microsoft Research India as a post-doctoral researcher.
Oct 2018: Congrats to Prateek Sharma for being nominated for ACM Distinguished Dissertation Award
Sep 2018: Prashant Shenoy to host P. Anandan, CEO of Wadhwani AI, for the Future series talk
Sep 2018: Congrats to Prateek for accepting a tenure-track Assistant Professor position at Indiana University, Bloomington
Sep 2018: Srinivasan Iyengar successfully defended his thesis
Aug 2018: Paper on programmable solar accepted to BuildSys 2018
Jun 2018: Prateek Sharma successfully defended his thesis
Mar 2018: Prashant Shenoy to deliver Distinguished Lecture at Colorado State University
Feb 2018: Our WattHome paper accepted to KDD 2018
2016
Apr 2016: Our 2005 Sigmetrics paper won the 2016 ACM SIGMETRICS Test of Time award.
Feb 2016: Our paper SpotLight accepted at ICDCS 2016
8/28/06: Xiaotao Liu defends Ph.D thesis; joins EMC as Senior Research Scientist.
8/1/06: Li Huan defends PhD thesis; to join Beihang University, Beijing as Associate Professor.
6/29/06: Capsule paper to appear at Sensys'06.
6/8/06: Ferret RFID paper to appear at Ubicomp.
6/2/06: Puru Kulkarni to join IIT Bombay as Asst. Professor,
Xiaotao Liu to join EMC Advanced Technology Labs as Sr. Research Scientist.
1/15/06: Deepak Ganesan receives NSF Career award.
2005
11/9/05: Xiaotao Liu receives Best Paper award at ACM Multimedia 2005. SensEye paper is a Best Student Paper Finalist.
10/17/05: Vijay Sundaram defends his Ph.D. thesis. Will join Microsoft.
9/1/05: 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.
8/15/05: Abhishek Chandra's Ph.D. thesis nominated for the ACM Best Dissertation Award by the department.
8/9/05: Bhuvan Urgaonkar defends his Ph.D. thesis.
6/16/05: Bhuvan gets Best Student paper award at Autonomic Computing conference
5/15/05: Bhuvan Urgaonkar to join Penn State as Assistant Professor
4/15/05: Sensor group web site goes online
1/22/05: Arun Venkataramani joins as Assistant Professor
2004
10/6/04: The UMass Trace Repository goes online.
10/4/04: Abhishek Chandra joins Univ of Minnesota as Asst. Professor
9/20/04: Abhishek Chandra successfully defends his Ph.D thesis
9/1/04: Deepak Ganesan joins as Assistant Professor
8/6/04: Prashant Shenoy promoted to Associated Professor
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