Systems

systems group

Research Areas

Cloud Computing and Edge Computing
  •       Data Center and multi-tier computing
  •       Mobile computing systems
  •       Wireless network systems
Next Generation Operating Systems and Optimizations
  •       Distributed and parallel computing
  •       Memory intensive computing 
  •       Embedded systems
Machine Learning and AI for Systems
  •       Performance, availability
  •       Reliability, dependability
  •       Privacy and security

 

Faculty

Greg Eisenhauer

Greg Eisenhauer

Areas of Interest
  • Distributed systems
  • Operating systems
  • High performance systems
  • Edge and cloud computing
Funding & Collaborations

  • Agencies: DARPA, DOE, NSF

  • Industry: IBM, Intel, HP Lab

Ada Gavrilovska

Ada Gavrilovska

Areas of Interest
  • distributed and operating systems, from edge to cloud and HPC
  • impact of emerging hardware technologies on systems software e.g., persistent & heterogeneous memories, disaggregation, in-network computing
  • impact of emerging application classes on system software
  • distributed AI/ML, decentralized privacy, IoT, AR/VR, visual analytics
Funding & Collaborations
  • Agencies: SRC/DARPA, DOE, NSF
  • Industry: Cisco, Facebook, HP Labs, Intel, VMware
  • Other universities: Michigan, UIUC, Emory, … 
Teaching in AY’21/22
  • Distributed Computing (Fall’21), Advanced OS (Spring’22)
     

Ling Liu

Ling Liu

Areas of Interest
  • Distributed data intensive systems for videos, images, graphs, and NLP
  • Machine learning for systems: performance, reliability, and availability optimizations 
  • Systems for machine learning, edge AI, resource efficient distributed learning
  • Privacy, security, and trust in cloud, edge, AI/ML
     

Calton Pu

Calton Pu

Areas of Interest
  • Distributed system performance and robustness
  • Latency long tail in web-facing applications
  • Cloud, n-tier, microservice-based systems
  • Millibottleneck theory of latency long tail
  • Transient (subsecond) resource contention can cause serious effects, e.g., dropped packets
  • Invisible (to sec/min sampling) interference of QoS, whether unintentional or intentional
Kishore Ramachandran
Kishore Ramachandran
 
Areas of Interest
 
  • Parallel and distributed systems
Current Projects
  • eCloud
    • Device-Edge-Cloud continuum for emerging apps (space-time vehicle tracking, autonomous vehicles, drone farms, Collaborative AR/VR)
    • Control Plane for orchestrating geo-distributed infrastructures
    • Data Plane for real-time communication
    • Low-cost edge architecture for camera processing
  • Foresight and ClairvoyantEdge
    • Short range mmWave augmentation for high bandwidth video delivery
    • Bandwidth prediction across space and time for mobile users
  • NFSlicer
    • Optimizing network function implementation to reduce system bottlenecks
  • Edge computing solution for underserved communities
    • Smart information services without WAN connectivity
Collaborators

Alex Daglis, Ashutosh Dhekne, Joy Arulraj, Tushar Krishna, Abhijit Chatterjee, Mustaque Ahamad, Mostafa Ammar, Shatakshee Dhongde, Nisha Botchwey

Alexey Tumanov

Alexey Tumanov

 Areas of Interest
  • Systems for machine learning (SysML)
  • Resource management and scheduling
  • Neural architecture search
  • Federated learning
  • Soft real-time serving, queueing networks, network calculus
Teaching in AY21-22
  • CS8803-SMR (Special Topics in SysML), CS3210 (OS Design)
Current/Recent SAIL lab projects
  • Soft real-time ML inference (training & serving), weight shared training, distributed dataframe analytics, SysML for healthcare

 

Top Achievements

  •  Top Journals
    • ACM TCS, ACM TOIT, ACM TOIT, ACM TWeb, ACM Computing Surveys, ACM TKDD, ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking, ACM TOSN
    • IEEE TMC, IEEE TCS, IEEE TPDS, IEEE TDCS, IEEE TIFS, IEEE TSC, IEEE TEC,  IEEE TBD, IEEE Trans on Storages
       
  • Top Conferences 
    • SOSP, OSDI, USENIX ATC, Eurosys, World Wide Web, SIGMOD, IEEE ICDCS, IEEE Infocom, ACM Middleware, IEEE S&P, ACM CCS, USENIX Security, VLDB, ACM SIGMOD, ACM SIGKDD, CVPR, AAAI, IJCAI, ICDM, ACM/IFIP Sigmetrics, ACM SoCC, ACM SEC, ACM IoTDI, ACM DEBS, ACM/IEEE ASPLOS
       
  • Best Paper Awards at Top Venues
    • World Wide Web, IEEE ICDCS, ACM/IEEE CCGrid, IEEE Cloud Computing, IEEE ICWS

Alumni Placement

  • Academic Positions
    • US: Emory University, Rutgers University, Pittsburg Univ., Penn State Univ. Texas A&M, University of Georgia, Clemson
    • EU: Koç University, IMDEA, EPFL
    • Asia: KAIST, SKKU, North South University-Bangladesh
       
  • Top Industry
    • IBM TJ Watson, IBM Almaden, Google (California + Seattle), Microsoft, Amazon, Intel, Facebook, Motorola, Oracle, NCR Teradata, AT&T, VMware