David Irwin
ProfessorUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstCollege of EngineeringElectrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentAddress: 151 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003Email: deirwin@umass.eduOffice: Knowles 215CPhone: 413-545-5822David Irwin
ProfessorUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstCollege of EngineeringElectrical and Computer Engineering DepartmentAddress: 151 Holdsworth Way, Amherst, MA 01003Email: deirwin@umass.eduOffice: Knowles 215CPhone: 413-545-5822SIGMETRICS '24 Best Student Paper Award
For CarbonScaler: Leveraging Cloud Workload Elasticity for Optimizing Carbon-Efficiency
2 papers selected out of 52 accepted papers
e-Energy '24 Inaugural Test-of-Time Award
For SmartCharge: Cutting the Electricity Bill in Smart Homes with Energy Storage
Recognizes research with long-lasting influence at least 10 years after publication
e-Energy '24 paper selected as Best Paper Award runner-up
Runner-up out of 31 accepted full papers
EuroSys '24 paper awarded Artifact Available Badge, Artifacts Functional Badge, and Results Reproduced Badge
For On the Limitations of Carbon-Aware Temporal and Spatial Workload Shifting in the Cloud
One of 12 papers to be awarded all three badges out of 41 accepted papers
ISCA '06 paper selected for inclusion in ISCA@50 25-year Retrospective 1996-2020
98 papers selected out of 1077 accepted papers over 25 years
IGSC '23 paper selected for Best Student Paper Award
For No Free Lunch: Analyzing the Cost of Deep Decarbonizing Residential Heating Systems
One out of 14 accepted full papers
IGSC '23 paper selected as Best Paper Award runner-up
For CASPER: Carbon-Aware Scheduling and Provisioning for Distributed Web Services
Runner-up out of 14 accepted full papers
ICPE '23 paper selected as Best Paper Award runner-up
For Is Sharing Caring? Analyzing the Incentives for Shared Cloud Clusters
Runner-up out of 15 accepted full papers in the Research Track
BuildSys '21 paper selected as Best Paper Award runner-up
For VPeak: Exploiting Volunteer Energy Resources for Flexible Peak Shaving
Runner-up out of 16 accepted full papers and 107 submissions
For Take it to the Limit: Peak Prediction-driven Resource Overcommitment in Datacenters
One of 14 papers to be awarded all three badges out of 38 accepted papers and 191 submissions
Supercomputing '20 paper selected as Best Paper Award Finalist and Best Student Paper Award Finalist
For Waiting Game: Optimally Provisioning Fixed Resources for Cloud-enabled Schedulers
One of 4 finalists in both categories out of 380 submissions and 68 accepted papers
IGSC '20 paper selected as Best Paper Award
For Phone-based Ambient Temperature Sensing Using Opportunistic Crowdsensing and Machine Learning
Awarded best paper out of 4 nominees and 24 full papers
e-Energy ’20 paper selected as Best Paper Award runner-up
For Emission-aware Energy Storage Scheduling for a Greener Grid
Runner-up out of 88 full paper submissions
Google Faculty Research Award ’19
For Optimizing Energy Procurement for Data Centers using Machine Learning
Selected as one of 158 projects funded out of 910 submissions
Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty Award ’18
For outstanding scholarship by an untenured faculty member in the UMass College of Engineering
BuildSys ’17 paper nominated for Best Paper Award
For Enforcing Fair Grid Energy Access for Controllable Distributed Solar Capacity
Selected as one of 5 best paper nominees out of 96 submissions
Google Faculty Research Award ’16
Selected as one of 151 projects funded out of 950 submissions
BuildSys ’14 paper selected as Best Paper Award Finalist
For PowerPlay: Creating Virtual Power Meters through Online Load Tracking in Smart Homes
Selected as one of 3 best paper finalists out of 59 submissions
BuildSys ’14 paper selected as Best Paper Award Finalist
For Minimizing Electricity Costs by Sharing Energy in Sustainable Microgrids
Selected as one of 3 best paper finalists out of 59 submissions
NSF CAREER Award ’13
Funded by Computer and Networked Systems (CNS) division of CISE
e-Energy ’13 paper selected as Best Paper Award Runner-up
For Scaling Distributed Energy Storage for Grid Peak Reduction
Runner-up out of 76 full paper submissions
PerCom ’12 paper selected for Best Papers Session
For SmartCap: Flattening Peak Electricity Demand in Smart Homes
One of 3 papers selected out of 150 submissions
ASPLOS ’11 paper selected as IEEE Sustainable Computing Register’s Pick of the Month (June 2012)
The first paper showing how to run server clusters on renewable energy!
GreenNets ’11 paper selected as Best Paper Award
For Towards Continuous Policy-driven Demand Response in Data Centers
Awarded best paper out of 19 submissions
ORCA software selected in 2008 as NSF GENI control framework
Software designed as part of Ph.D. dissertation
Orca served as the foundation for the ExoGeni testbed
HPDC ’03 paper selected in 2012 as one of twenty best papers in HPDC’s first twenty years (1992-2012)
One of the first papers on what are now known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platforms!