News

2024

March 2024 - Many papers published in 2023-24!  Updated paper pdf links!

2023

September 2023 - Congrats to Noman on receiving MIT's Climate & Computing Impact Fellowship!

August 2023 - Papers accepted at SIGMETRICs, Performance, SoCC, SEC, IGSCC, and HotCarbon!

May 2023 - New paper accepted at e-Energy!

April 2023 - ICPE paper awarded best paper runner-up!

February 2023 - New paper accepted to IoTDI!

2022

December 2022 - New papers accepted at ASPLOS and BuildSys!

October 2022 - Multiple new NSF projects starting in CCRI and CSR programs!

July 2022 - Papers presented at ACM COMPASS, ACM e-Energy, and  HotCarbon!

2021

December 2021 - Our work on SunDown was featured in PVMagazine!

November 2021 - BuildSys '21 paper runner-up for Best Paper Award!

August 2021 - Two papers accepted to ACM SoCC 2021!

June 2021 - Another article on NSF/VMware grant and VMware press release!

May 2021 - New NSF/VMware grant and article on CarbonFirst!

April 2021 - New paper at EuroSys on optimizing resource overcommitment in Google datacenters!

March 2021 - New paper on optimizing eBike sharing at IMWUT/Ubicomp!

2020

December, 2020 - Akansha and Noman won second place and honorable mention, respectively, in the Duke Energy Symposium Lightning Talk Competition!

December 2020 - News article on recent Supercomputing paper!

November, 2020 - Akansha's presentation at BuildSys honorable mention for best presentation award!

October, 2020 - IGSC paper receives best paper award!

September, 2020 - 3 papers accepted to BuildSys 2020!

September, 2020 - SC paper selected as Best Paper Award Finalist and Best Student Paper Award Finalist!

August, 2020 - Posted camera-ready of SC paper!

August, 2020 - Two papers accepted to IGSC!

June, 2020 - e-Energy paper selected as Best Paper Award runner-up!

May, 2020 - New papers accepted to SC, e-Energy, HotCloud, TDS, and COMPASS!

April, 2020 - Congratulations to Supreeth on joining Iowa's CS department as a tenure-track Assistant Professor!

April, 2020 - New papers at CPS Week in IoTDI and IC2E!

January, 2020 - David Irwin is serving as the TPC Co-Chair for HPDC 2020. Please submit!

2019

December, 2019 - NSF report on research challenges in Cloud Economics, co-edited by David Irwin, published!

November, 2019 - Solar-TK solar performance modeling and forecasting toolkit released!

November, 2019 - Recent papers accepted to BuildSys, SmartGridComm, and MASS!

September, 2019 - New NSF award on optimizing distributed machine learning in the cloud!

June, 2019 - David Irwin gives keynote on solar energy modeling at Energy Data Analytics workshop (at FCRC)!

May, 2019 - Papers accepted at BigData, IC2E, SIGMETRICS, ICCCN, and TCPS!

April, 2019 - Google Research Award on optimizing data center energy awarded!

2018

August, 2018 - Papers on programmable solar and solar performance modeling accepted to BuildSys 2018!

August, 2018 - Paper on cloud index tracking accepted to SoCC 2018!

May, 2018 - David Irwin co-organized and co-chair'd the NSF Workshop on Cloud Economics at Stanford! Stay tuned for the final report!

May, 2018 - David Irwin receives the Barbara H. and Joseph I. Goldstein Outstanding Junior Faculty award!

May, 2018 - Paper on analyzing big energy data to identify faults in energy-inefficient buildings accepted to KDD 2018!

May, 2018 - Paper on mechanisms and policies for solar control accepted to ACM TOSN!

May, 2018 - Papers accepted to ACM e-Energy and IEEE ICDCS on energy data analytics and privacy!

May, 2018 - David Irwin is co-chairing the ACM e-Energy Conference! Please submit by 1/22/18!

2017

December, 2017 - David Irwin is serving as the TPC Co-Chair for NILM 2018! Please submit by 1/7/18!

November, 2017 - BuildSys paper nominated for best paper award!

October, 2017 - Paper on exposing weather-based privacy threats in big energy data accepted to BigData 2017!

September, 2017 - David Irwin is serving as the TPC Co-Chair for ACM e-Energy 2018! Please submit!

August, 2017 - New papers over the summer at SoCC, BuildSys, Greenmetrics, ICCCN, and IEEE IoT

July, 2017 - New NSF grant on Software-defined Solar awarded!

April, 2017 - Eleven new papers this year at SIGMETRICS, e-Energy, ICCPS, TPDS, TCPS, and Internet Computing

2016

August, 2016 - Seven papers accepted over the summer at SC, e-Energy, SmartGridComm, IGSC, BuildSys!

April, 2016 - Two papers on spot markets accepted to HotCloud!

March, 2016 - ICDCS paper on SpotLight accepted!

March, 2016 - News article on MassNZ data center!

February, 2016 - Ribbon cutting for the Massachusetts Net Zero data center we built!

February, 2016 - Google Research Award announced on enhancing the value of preemptible instances!

January, 2016 - Flint paper accepted to EuroSys!

January, 2016 - David Irwin is serving as TPC Co-Chair of BuildSys 2016. Please submit!

2015

November, 2015 - Two papers accepted to ICPE!

September, 2015 - NSF grant on creating utility-driven smart energy services announced!

August, 2015 - iProgram paper accepted to BuildSys!

August, 2015 - IGSC paper on optimizing HPC applications for green energy accepted!

July, 2015 - Posted camera-ready version of SoCC paper!

September, 2015 - SoCC paper on optimizing spot markets for batch jobs accepted!

May, 2015 - Posted camera-ready version of e-Energy paper!

May, 2015 - NSF grant on smart meter privacy funded!

April, 2015 - Posted camera-ready version of HPDC paper!

April, 2015 - e-Energy paper on distributed energy storage placement accepted!

March, 2015 - HPDC paper accepted on using spot markets for online Internet services!

January, 2015 - SpotCheck paper accepted to EuroSys!

2014

December, 2014 - Journal version of CHPr paper accepted to Transactions on Smart Grid!

November, 2014 - PowerPlay paper selected as one of top three best papers at BuildSys!

November, 2014 - Micorgrid paper selected as one of top three best papers at BuildSys!

August, 2014 - Three papers accepted to BuildSys!

August, 2014 - CloudLab grant funded and Slashdotted!

August, 2014 - Posted recent papers on publications page.

August, 2014 - NSF grant to study Transient Servers funded!

July, 2014 - NSF grant to build programmable building testbed funded!

July, 2014 - Paper on Non-Intrusive Load Identification accepted to SmartGridComm!

July, 2014 - Cloudy Computing journal paper accepted to SUSCOM!

April, 2014 - Paper smart meter data analysis accepted to NILM!

April, 2014 - BlinkFS journal paper accepted to SUSCOM!

March, 2014 - Paper on smart meter data analysis accepted to JSAC!

February, 2014 - Paper on transient servers accepted to IEEE Internet Computing!

January, 2014 - Posted final version of PerCom paper

2013

December, 2013 - Paper on Smart Meter Privacy accepted to PerCom 2014!

October, 2013 - David Irwin is on the cover of the CoE annual report (article inside)!

October, 2013 - Consider submitting to Workshop on Cloud Analytics, due 11/24

September, 2013 - Two papers accepted to BuildSys 2013!

May, 2013 - Our e-Energy 2013 paper was runner-up for the best paper award!

April, 2013 - Two papers accepted to IEEE IGCC 2013!

March, 2013 - Paper accepted to ACM e-Energy 2013!

February, 2013 - The lab's research is featured on UMass InPictures website!

February, 2013 - More press coverage on In the Loop!

February, 2013 - Posted final version of Yank paper published in NSDI 2013!

February, 2013 - Article on the lab's research in UMass's Daily Collegian Newspaper!

February, 2013 - Article on CAREER grant posted to UMass Engineering website!

January, 2013 - Paper on energy sharing in microgrids accepted to ICCPS!

January, 2013 - NSF CAREER grant on model-based energy management is awarded!

2012

December, 2012 - Yank paper accepted to NSDI 2013!

November, 2012 - GreenCache paper accepted to MMSys 2013!

September, 2012 - CloudCast paper accepted to IPCCC 2012!

September, 2012 - Released initial energy data set from Smart* Project!

September, 2012 - David Irwin joins the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at UMass Amherst

July, 2012 - Journal version of MultiSense paper accepted to MMSJ!

July, 2012 - Paper on linking weather radars to clouds accepted to LCN 2012!

June, 2012 - Blink selected as Pick of the Month in June's issue of the IEEE Sustainable Computing Register!

June, 2012 - Paper describing the open release of our energy data accepted to SustKDD 2012!

May, 2012 - David Irwin presents work on using Intermittent Energy in the Internet at e-Energy 2012 in Madrid!

April, 2012 - David Irwin accepts faculty position in ECE department at UMass Amherst, starting next fall!