CLOUD COMPUTING SEMINAR SERIES
Title: Context-aware Optimizations for Efficient Edge Computing
Speaker: Prof. Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA
Date & Time : November 20, 2025 (Thursday),12:00 Noon
Venue: CDS 102 Seminar Hall
ABSTRACT
Recent years have seen the advent of edge computing—computing near the users at the edge of the network—fueled by the increasing generation of data from mobile phones, wearable devices, and IoT sensors. Many emerging applications across healthcare, transportation, social networking, and business domains rely on extracting real-time information from such data. However, deploying such edge-native applications is challenging due to limited edge resources and energy constraints, coupled with user mobility and real-time requirements. A key observation is that many edge applications are context-dependent: they are often user-facing and rely on location, time, and the environment. In this talk, I will present our work that uses this context (application, data, and user information) to achieve resource efficiency, low latency, and accuracy in edge systems.
BIOGRAPHY
Abhishek Chandra is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in the areas of Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, with current focus on performance, energy, and resource management in Cloud and Edge computing, Data analytics, and Mobile/IoT systems. He received his B.Tech. from IIT Kanpur, India, and M.S. and PhD from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, IBM Faculty Award, Cisco Research Award, and ACM Dissertation Award nomination. He is also a co-author on multiple Best Paper/Poster Awards. Prof. Chandra has served on the Editorial Boards for IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Springer Cluster Computing Journal, and IEEE Transactions on Computers. He is currently serving as the Program co-chair for ACM/IFIP Middleware 2026, and on the Steering Committees for IEEE IC2E (as co-chair) and ACM HPDC conferences. In addition, he has served in leadership roles for several conferences: as General co-chair for ACM HPDC 2022; as Program co-chair for ACM/USENIX/IFIP Middleware 2026, IEEE ICDCS 2021, ACM HPDC 2018 and IEEE IC2E 2018 conferences; and as TPC Vice Chair for ICDCS 2016, 2018, 2020.
Host Faculty: Prof. Yogesh Simmhan
ABOUT: The IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud Lab (IIHCL) hosted at IISc is curating the Cloud Computing Seminar series with guest speakers from Industry and Academia speaking about the latest technologies and research on Cloud and edge computing, distributed computing systems, and AI/ML/Big Data platforms.
ALL ARE WELCOME
