Speakers
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, USA
Talk Title: Sustainable Cloud Computing and the Role of AI
Bio: Prashant Shenoy is currently a Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Information and Computer Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
He received the B.Tech degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and the M.S and Ph.D degrees in Computer Science from the University of Texas, Austin. His research interests lie in distributed systems and networking, with a recent emphasis on cloud and sustainable computing.
He has been the recipient of several best paper awards at leading conferences, including a Sigmetrics Test of Time Award. He is a fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS and AAIA.
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Talk Title: “Transparency first: assessing (and reporting) the Software Carbon Intensity of large-scale AI systems?”
Bio: Ivano Malavolta is currently an Associate Professor at VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and a member of the Software and Sustainability (S2) research group.
His research interests include energy efficient software, software architecture, empirical software engineering.
He was awarded the prestigious Dutch Prize for ICT Research for his innovative research on energy-efficient software for robotics.
He has authored several scientific articles in international journals and refereed international conference proceedings, and he is PC member and reviewer of international conferences and journals in the field of software engineering.
IMDEA Software Institute
Madrid, Spain
Talk Title: “Keep it Simple, Sustainable! When Is ML Necessary in Cloud Resource Management?”
Bio: Thaleia Dimitra Doudali is an Assistant Professor at the IMDEA Software Institute in Spain.
She holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech, USA, and an undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from NTUA, Greece.
Her research focuses on leveraging methodologies such as machine learning to enhance computer system-level resource management for emerging computing platforms and applications.
She has received the 2024 César Nombela and 2021 Juan de la Cierva award grants and was recognized as a Rising Star in EECS in 2020.
Beyond her research, Thaleia is a strong advocate for diversity in STEM through her active participation in the NGO ‘Greek Women in STEM’ and the ‘MAR’ chapter of Women in HPC.
University of L'Aquila
L'Aquila, Italy
Talk Title: “25+ years of Software Performance: from integrated system modelling to AI-based runtime analysis… any relation to sustainability?”
Bio: Vittorio Cortellessa is Full Professor and Associate Dean at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Mathematics of University of L’Aquila (Italy).
His research interests are in software performance and reliability, where he has experimented a wide range of methodologies that span from model-driven engineering through multi-objective optimization to AI-based approaches.
He has published about 150 papers on international conferences and journals in his area of interest.
Vittorio has received two 10-years most influential paper awards and five best paper awards.
He has served in two editorial boards of journals, and he serves as program and general chair, as well as program committee member of leading conferences in his area of interest.
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Talk Title: “GreenDIGIT: Towards Environmentally Sustainable Research Infrastructures”
Bio: Yuri Demchenko is a Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Complex Cyber Infrastructure Research Group of the University of Amsterdam.
He is graduated from the National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorski Kiev Polytechnic Institute” where he also received his PhD (Cand. of Science) degree.
His main research areas include Big Data and Data Intensive Technologies and Infrastructure, Cloud and Intercloud architecture, general security architectures and distributed access control infrastructure for cloud based services and data centric applications.
He is actively contributing to the standardisation activity at RDA, OGF, IETF, NIST, TMF on defining general Cloud and Intercloud architectures for infrastructure services provisioning on-demand, Data Science competences and taxonomy.