Awards

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

• For Ensemble-level Power Management for Dense Blade Servers

• 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

EuroSys '21 paper awarded  Artifact Available Badge, Artifacts Functional Badge, and Results Reproduced Badge

• 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

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

• For Enhancing the Value of Preemptible Instances

• 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 

• For Model-based Energy Management for Sustainable Buildings

• 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) 

• For Blink: Managing Server Clusters on Intermittent Power

• 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)

• For Dynamic Virtual Clusters in a Grid Site Manager

• One of the first papers on what are now known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud platforms!