Yogesh Simmhan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. His research explores scalable software platforms, algorithms and applications on distributed systems. These span Cloud and Edge Computing, Temporal Graph Processing, and Scalable Machine Learning to support emerging Big Data and Internet of Things (IoT) applications. He has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers, and won the Best Paper Award at IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) 2019, IEEE TCSC SCALE Challenge Award in 2019 and 2012, the Distinguished Paper award at EuroPar 2018, and the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing HPC Storage Challenge Award in 2008. He is the recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship in 2019 and IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Mid Career Researcher) in 2020. He is an Associate Editor of Future Generation Computing System (FGCS), and earlier served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems (JPDC), Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and a member of the IEEE Future Directions Initiative on Big Data.

Yogesh has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and was previously a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Postdoc at Microsoft Research, San Francisco. He is a Distinguished Member of ACM, a Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society and serves on the ACM India Executive Council.

Research Themes

Key Research Areas

Yogesh Simmhan leads the Distributed Research on Emerging Applications and Machines Lab (DREAM:Lab) at the Indian Institute of Science, where he is joined by an enthusiastic team of PhD and Masters students, research staff and interns who conduct cutting-edge research on distributed systems.

Our research vision centers on developing novel programming abstractions, distributed algorithms, and resilient runtime platforms to manage the complexity of next-generation distributed systems and applications. This advances both the foundations and practice of distributed systems across Cloud and Edge Computing, Temporal Graph Processing, and Scalable Machine Learning. While these areas may appear diverse, they are unified by a common focus on emerging computing hardware and evolving data-driven applications, realized through intelligent, scalable middleware and algorithmic innovations that enable next-generation workloads.

This vision responds to a fundamental shift in computing platforms and applications. Infrastructure is evolving from centralized datacenters to a heterogeneous computing continuum that combines high-end cloud platforms with resource-constrained, yet increasingly accelerator-enabled, edge devices. In parallel, applications have moved beyond traditional batch analytics toward time-critical machine learning and decision-making over complex, linked, and continuously evolving data. Together, these trends introduce new challenges in scalability, adaptability, and efficiency that cannot be addressed by existing systems abstractions alone.

Our contributions address both fundamental and systems-engineering challenges arising from these trends, with an emphasis on originality, non-triviality, and demonstrable impact on scientific knowledge, design methodology, and real-world deployments. Our work has appeared in premier systems venues, produced open-source artifacts, and been validated at scale using real applications, production datasets and hardware testbeds.

Our work is organized into four themes: (1) Systems for Edge Intelligence & Federated Learning, (2) Orchestration & Data Management on the Hybrid-Cloud Continuum, (3) Scalable Temporal & Streaming Graph Processing, and (4) Translational Research into Emerging Applications for societal benefit. Explore the research themes of the lab below.

Systems for Machine Learning

Federated platforms and optimizations for efficient ML/LLM training/inferencing on edge accelerators.

We design next-generation platforms that make ML and LLM training and inference more scalable, efficient and adaptive. Our work explores edge accelerators, GPU clusters and federated environments, enabling models to run seamlessly from cloud data centers to resource-constrained edge devices.

Hybrid Cloud, Agentic and Quantum Platforms

Serverless, Agentic, and Quantum Middleware for Next-Generation Distributed Applications

We are engineering resilient hybrid-cloud software and middleware platforms that support serverless execution, agentic workflows and quantum-classical integration. This includes application orchestrating across public clouds, private clusters and emerging quantum backends to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant and cost-effective computing pipelines.

Scalable Graph Analytics

Distributed and Temporal Analytics for Billion-Scale Dynamic Graphs

We build distributed systems for billion-scale, real-time graph analytics, including platforms for Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) operating on temporal, streaming and dynamically evolving graphs. Our aim is to push the boundaries of low-latency, high-throughput graph computation at scale.

Emerging Applications

Scalable Platforms and Algorithms for Autonomous Systems, Urban Mobility, and Fintech

We apply core distributed systems research to high-impact domains such as smart city infrastructures, autonomous systems (drones/UAVs) and fintech analytics and blockchain platforms. These collaborations with industry and academic partners help validate our innovations in real-world, data-rich environments.

Recent News & Activities

[2025-08] Our article on AerialDB, a federated spatio-temporal edge datastore for drones, jointly with Shashwat and Subhajit, accepted at Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal.
[2025-08] Our paper at IEEE eScience 2025 on FL for microgrids shortlisted as a best paper finalist. Congrats to the team!
[2025-08] New academic year starts! DREAM:Lab kick off on Independence Day, welcoming new students to the lab (Debarthi, Sakshi and Abinav), brainstorming new ideas, fall-cleaning of lab space, and a pizza lunch :-)
[2025-08] Offering the DS252: Introduction to Cloud Computing course this semester, being taught with active use of AI Agents. An experiment in pedagogy!
[2025-07] Glad to be hosting Prof. Sajal Das this month as an Infosys Visiting Chair Professor at IISc, with Institute Lecture on "Smart Connected Farms: AI and IoT-based Pest Management in Precision Agriculture".
[2025-07] IndoSys 2025 wraps up! An engaging 3 days mentoring early career students and researchers, and getting a pulse of systems research in India.
[2025-06] Suman submits her PhD Dissertation on "Intelligent Orchestration of Autonomous Systems Across Edge-Cloud Continuum". Congrats Suman!
[2025-06] Our paper on Federated learning for power grid demand prediction, jointly with Accenture, was accepted at IEEE eScience 2025. Congrats to Roopkatha and team!
[2025-06] Happy to have hosted the ACM India Annual Council meeting at IISc. Glad to see the growing impact of our activities on 15K student and professional members and 300+ chapters in India.
[2025-06] The Keynote and Panel Discussion for IEEE EDGE 2025 are finalized. Speakers include Atakan Aral and Omer Rana; see you at Helsinki!
[2025-06] Phase 2 of the Urban Vision Hackathon concluded at IISc with 20 teams and 76 participants building urban mobility models.
[2025-05] Prashanthi submits her PhD Dissertation on "Intelligent Orchestration of Autonomous Systems Across Edge-Cloud Continuum". Congrats Prashanthi!
[2025-05] Thrilled that our paper on Triparts, a scalable streaming graph partitioner, was accepted at VLDB 2025. Congrats to Ruchi, Tuhin, Siddharth and Manoj.
[2025-05] Notifications for IEEE EDGE 2025 have gone out. 14 out of 55 papers accepted as full papers.
[2025-05] Our AeroDaaS short paper accepted at ICWS 2025. Congrats Suman, Rajdeep and Kautuk.
[2025-05] Joint paper with Manik and Harsha on Federated Learning over Time-series Data accepted at IEEE EDGE 2025. Congrats Harsha!
[2025-05] Registrations open for the Urban Vision Hackathon. Top prizes include internships at IISc!
[2025-05] Roopkatha's paper on power-aware federated learning accepted at EuroPar 2025.
[2025-04] Paper on Flotilla Federated Learning Framework accepted in JPDC. Open source Flotilla released: github.com/dream-lab/flotilla.
[2025-04] Suman's paper on adaptive scheduling heuristics for DNN inferencing accepted in FGCS.
[2025-03] Pranjal's paper on incremental execution of GNN inferencing accepted at ICDCS 2025.
[2025-03] Keynote at IPDPS Workshop on Intelligent and Adaptive Edge-Cloud Operations and Services.
[2025-03] Four papers accepted at IPDPS workshops on topics including agentic applications, LLM inferencing on edge, and blockchain-enabled frameworks.
[2025-03] Kautuk secures the Reliance Foundation PG Scholarship for M.Tech.(Research). Congrats!
[2025-02] Joint work with Microsoft M365 Research, "Serving Models, Fast and Slow", available on arXiv: arXiv link.
[2025-02] PhD students Prashanthi S.K., Pranjal Naman and Suman Raj attending ACM India PIC 2025 in Mysore.
[2025-02] Joint work with IBM Research on Profiling of Quantum-Classical FaaS Workflows accepted at CCGRID 2025.
[2025-01] Paper on VM placement using RL accepted at IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing: doi.
[2025-01] Listed among the top-50 distributed systems researchers at Top 2% Scientists website.
[2024-12] ACM India Chapter Summit hosted at BMS/RVCE with 200 students participating.
[2024-12] DREAM:Lab at IEEE HiPC 2024 with 7 papers at the Student Research Symposium; Mumuksh won Best Lightning Talk.
[2024-12] First paper at core ML venue accepted at TMLR on distillation for federated learning.
[2024-11] Prashanthi SK wins the Intel Research Fellowship 2024 and is selected for ACM India's PIC 2025. Congrats!

Recent Refereed Publications (since 2023)

  1. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, OptimES: Optimizing Federated Learning using Remote Embeddings for Graph Neural Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2026 (arXiv)
  2. Varad Kulkarni, Vaibhav Jha, Nikhil Reddy, Anand Eswaran, Praveen Jayachandran and Yogesh Simmhan, XCAgent: Automating Multi-Cloud Deployment of Agentic Workflows on FaaS Platforms, IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2026 (To appear, Short Paper)
  3. Akash Sharma, Pranjal Naman, Roopkatha Banerjee, Priyanshu Pansari, Sankalp Gawali, Mayank Arya, Sharath Chandra, Arun Josephraj, Rakshit Ramesh, Punit Rathore Anirban Chakraborty, Raghu Krishnapuram3,4, Vijay Kovvali4 and Yogesh Simmhan, Scaling Real-Time Traffic Analytics on Edge–Cloud Fabrics for City-Scale Camera Networks, TCSC SCALE Challenge, 2026 (To Appear)
  4. Ruchi Bhoot, Tuhin Khare, Manoj Agarwal, Siddharth Jaiswal, and Yogesh Simmhan, Triparts: Scalable Streaming Graph Partitioning to Enhance Community Structure, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, Volume 18, 2025, DOI (Artifact Available Badge) [CORE A*]
  5. Roopkatha Banerjee, Prince Modi, Jinal Vyas, Abhijit Sri Chunduru, Tejus Chandrashekar, Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Flotilla: A Scalable, Modular and Resilient Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Resources, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2025 (Open source Flotilla code, arXiv) [CORE A*]
  6. SageServe: Optimizing LLM Serving on Cloud Data Centers with Forecast Aware Auto-Scaling, Shashwat Jaiswal, Kunal Jain, Yogesh Simmhan, Anjaly Parayil, Ankur Mallick, Rujia Wang, Renee St. Amant, Chetan Bansal, Victor Ruhle, Anoop Kulkarni, Steve Kofsky, and Saravan Rajmohan. Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), 9(3), 2025 (To appear, extended version of SIGMETRICS 2025).
  7. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, Ripple: Scalable Incremental GNN Inferencing on Large Streaming Graphs, 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2025 (arXiv) [CORE A]
  8. Suman Raj, Radhika Mittal, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Adaptive Heuristics for Scheduling DNN Inferencing on Edge and Cloud for Personalized UAV Fleets, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2025 (arXiv)
  9. Prathamesh Saraf Vinayak, Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick, Lakshmi Jagarlamudi, Anirban Chakraborty and Yogesh Simmhan, CARL: Cost-optimized Online Container Placement on VMs using Adversarial Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2025
  10. Roopkatha Banerjee, Tejus Chandrashekar, Ananth Eswar and Yogesh Simmhan, Federated Learning within Global Energy Budget over Heterogeneous Edge Accelerators, 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar), 2025 (arXiv)
  11. Roopkatha Banerjee, Sampath Koti, Gyanendra Singh, Anirban Chakraborty, Gurunath Gurrala, Bhushan Jagyasi and Yogesh Simmhan, Optimizing Federated Learning for Scalable Power-demand Forecasting in Microgrids, IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience), 2025 (Best paper finalist) [CORE B]
  12. Suman Raj, Rajdeep Singh, Kautuk Astu and Yogesh Simmhan, AeroDaaS: Towards an Application Programming Framework for Drones-as-a-Service, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2025 (short paper) (extended arXiv version) [CORE A]
  13. Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, D3FL: Data Distribution and Detrending for Robust Federated Learning in Non-linear Time-series Data, IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE), 2025 (arXiv)
  14. Early Pedagogical Insights from using AI Tutor Agents in a Graduate-level Systems Course, Varad Kulkarni, Nikhil Reddy and Yogesh Simmhan, Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC), 2025 (extended version on arXiv)
  15. Chandrika Bhattacharyya et al., Mapping genetic diversity with the GenomeIndia project, Nature Genetics, 57, 767–773, 2025
  16. Vaibhav Jha, Shikhar Srivastava, Tarun Pal, Vaishnav Manoj, Ritajit Majumdar, Tuhin Khare, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Varad Kulkarni, Anupama Ray and Yogesh Simmhan, Choreography and Profiling of Quantum-Classical FaaS Workflows On Hybrid Clouds, IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2025
  17. Yinfang Chen, Manish Shetty, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Jonathan Mace, Chetan Bansal, Rujia Wang and Saravan Rajmohan, AIOpsLab: A Holistic Framework to Evaluate AI Agents for Enabling Autonomous Clouds, Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys), 2025 (Artifact Functional Badge, arXiv)
  18. Shiva Sai Krishna Anand Tokal, Vaibhav Jha, Anand Eswaran, Praveen Jayachandran and Yogesh Simmhan, Towards Orchestrating Agentic Applications as FaaS Workflows, HPAI4S Workshop at IPDPS, 2025 (arXiv)
  19. Mayank Arya and Yogesh Simmhan, Understanding the Performance and Power of LLM Inferencing on Edge Accelerators, PAISE Workshop at IPDPS, 2025 (arXiv)
  20. Suman Raj, Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Kautuk Astu, Arnav A Rajesh, Pratham M and Yogesh Simmhan, Ocularone-Bench: Benchmarking DNN Models on GPUs to Navigate the Visually Impaired, ParSocial Workshop at IPDPS, 2025 (arXiv)
  21. Aishwarya Parab, Prakhar Pradhan, Yogesh Simmhan, Arnab K. Paul, A Blockchain-Enabled Framework for Storage and Retrieval of Social Data, ParSocial Workshop at IPDPS, 2025 (arXiv)
  22. M Yashwanth, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Arya Singh, Yogesh Simmhan and Anirban Chakraborty, Adaptive Self-Distillation for Minimizing Client Drift in Heterogeneous Federated Learning, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024 (arXiv)
  23. Ruchi Bhoot, Suved Sanjay Ghanmode and Yogesh Simmhan, TARIS: Scalable Incremental Processing of Time-respecting Algorithms on Streaming Graphs, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2024 [CORE A*]
  24. Manish Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Dax Vandevoorde, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal and Saravan Rajmohan, Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2024 (arXiv)
  25. Prashanthi S. K., Saisamarth Taluria, Beautlin S, Lakshya Karwa and Yogesh Simmhan, PowerTrain: Fast, Generalizable Time and Power Prediction Models, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, 2024 [CORE A]
  26. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, Optimizing Federated Learning using Remote Embeddings for Graph Neural Networks, EuroPar, 2024 (arXiv) [CORE B]
  27. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, Topology-Aware Aggregation for Federated Graph Learning, EuroParW, 2024
  28. Varad Kulkarni et al., XFBench: A Cross-Cloud Benchmark Suite for Evaluating FaaS Workflow Platforms, CCGRID, 2024 (ORO & ROR Badges) [CORE B]
  29. Aakash Khochare, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Yogesh Simmhan and Sajal K. Das, Improved Algorithms for Co-scheduling of Edge Analytics and Routes for UAV Fleet Missions, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 2024 [CORE A*]
  30. Shikhar Srivastava et al., Towards Platform-aware Application of Qubit Reuse in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Workflows, HiPC-W SRS, 2024
  31. Tuhin Khare et al., Parallelizing Quantum-Classical Workloads, IEEE QCE, 2023
  32. Ajeya B S et al., A Lossless Compression Pipeline for Petabyte-scale Whole Genome Sequencing Data, HiPC, 2023 (Short paper)
  33. Prashanthi S.K. et al., Performance Characterization of Containerized DNN Training on Edge Accelerators, HiPC, 2023 (Short paper)
  34. Srikrishna Acharya B. et al., A Co-simulation Framework for Communication and Control in Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems, IROS, 2023 [CORE A]
  35. Suman Raj et al., Towards Collision Avoidance for UAVs to Guide the Visually Impaired, IROS Late Breaking Work, 2023
  36. Amrita Namtirtha et al., Placement Strategies for Water Quality Sensors, Water Resources Research, 2023 [IF 6.159]
  37. Suman Raj et al., Ocularone: Exploring drones-based assistive technologies for the visually impaired, CHI EA, 2023
  38. Suman Raj, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Scheduling DNN Inferencing on Edge and Cloud for Personalized UAV Fleets, CCGRID, 2023 [CORE A]
  39. Aakash Khochare, Tuhin Khare, Varad Kulkarni and Yogesh Simmhan, XFaaS: Cross-platform Orchestration of FaaS Workflows on Hybrid Clouds, CCGRID, 2023 (ORO & ROR Badges) [CORE A]
  40. Prashanthi S.K., Sai Anuroop Kesanapalli and Yogesh Simmhan, Characterizing the Performance of Accelerated Jetson Edge Devices for Training Deep Learning Models, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2023 [CORE A*]

Federated Edge Intelligence & Big Data

Pre-prints
  1. Nathan Ng, Walid A. Hanafy, Prashanthi Kadambi, Balachandra Sunil, Ayush Gupta, David Irwin, Yogesh Simmhan, Prashant Shenoy, Collaborative Processing for Multi-Tenant Inference on Memory-Constrained Edge TPUs, arXiv:2602.17808, 2026
  2. Prashanthi S. K., Saisamarth Taluri, Pranav Gupta, Amartya Ranjan Saikia, Kunal Kumar Sahoo, Atharva Vinay Joshi, Lakshya Karwa, Kedar Dhule, Yogesh Simmhan, Fulcrum: Optimizing Concurrent DNN Training and Inferencing on Edge Accelerators, arXiv:2509.20205, 2025
Refereed Publications
  1. SageServe: Optimizing LLM Serving on Cloud Data Centers with Forecast Aware Auto-Scaling, Shashwat Jaiswal, Kunal Jain, Yogesh Simmhan, Anjaly Parayil, Ankur Mallick, Rujia Wang, Renee St. Amant, Chetan Bansal, Victor Ruhle, Anoop Kulkarni, Steve Kofsky, and Saravan Rajmohan, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), 9(3), 2025 (To appear, extended version of SIGMETRICS 2025).
  2. Roopkatha Banerjee, Prince Modi, Jinal Vyas, Abhijit Sri Chunduru, Tejus Chandrashekar, Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Flotilla: A Scalable, Modular and Resilient Federated Learning Framework for Heterogeneous Resources, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 2025 (arXiv). [CORE A*]
  3. Roopkatha Banerjee, Tejus Chandrashekar, Ananth Eswar and Yogesh Simmhan, Federated Learning within Global Energy Budget over Heterogeneous Edge Accelerators, 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar), 2025 (arXiv)
  4. Roopkatha Banerjee, Sampath Koti, Gyanendra Singh, Anirban Chakraborty, Gurunath Gurrala, Bhushan Jagyasi and Yogesh Simmhan, Optimizing Federated Learning for Scalable Power-demand Forecasting in Microgrids, IEEE International Conference on e-Science (eScience), 2025 (to appear, Best paper finalist) [CORE B]
  5. Harsha Varun Marisetty, Manik Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, D3FL: Data Distribution and Detrending for Robust Federated Learning in Non-linear Time-series Data, IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE), 2025 (arXiv)
  6. Mayank Arya and Yogesh Simmhan, Understanding the Performance and Power of LLM Inferencing on Edge Accelerators, Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE), Co-located with IEEE IPDPS 2025 (arXiv)
  7. Suman Raj, Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Kautuk Astu, Arnav A Rajesh, Pratham M and Yogesh Simmhan, Ocularone-Bench: Benchmarking DNN Models on GPUs to Navigate the Visually Impaired, IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial), Co-located with IEEE IPDPS 2025 (arXiv).
  8. M Yashwanth, Gaurav Kumar Nayak, Arya Singh, Yogesh Simmhan and Anirban Chakraborty, Adaptive Self-Distillation for Minimizing Client Drift in Heterogeneous Federated Learning, Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR), 2024 (arXiv)
  9. Prashanthi S. K., Saisamarth Taluria, Beautlin S, Lakshya Karwa and Yogesh Simmhan, PowerTrain: Fast, Generalizable Time and Power Prediction Models to Optimize DNN Training on Accelerated Edges, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2024 [IF 6.2, CORE A]
  10. Mumuksh Tayal, Yogesh Simmhan, Evaluating Multi-Instance DNN Inferencing on Multiple Accelerators of an Edge Device, HiPC SRS, 2024
  11. Prashanthi S.K., Vinayaka Hegde, Keerthana Patchava, Ankita Das and Yogesh Simmhan, Performance Characterization of Containerized DNN Training and Inference on Edge Accelerators, IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2023 (Short paper)
  12. Prashanthi S.K., Sai Anuroop Kesanapalli and Yogesh Simmhan, Characterizing the Performance of Accelerated Jetson Edge Devices for Training Deep Learning Models, ACM SIGMETRICS, 2023 [CORE A*]
  13. Prashanthi S K, Aakash Khochare, Sai Anuroop Kesanapalli, Rahul Bhope and Yogesh Simmhan, Don't Miss the Train: A Case for Systems Research into Training on the Edge, Workshop on Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge (PAISE), collocated with IPDPS, 2022
  14. Prashanthi S.K., Sai Anuroop Kesanapalli and Yogesh Simmhan, Characterizing the Performance of Accelerated Jetson Edge Devices for Training Deep Learning Models, Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems (POMACS), 2022 (extended version)
  15. Manoj K Agarwal, Animesh Baranawal, Yogesh Simmhan and Manish Gupta, Event Related Data Collection from Microblog Streams, International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), 2021
  16. Yogesh Simmhan, Aakash Khochare, and Seshadri K. Ramachandra, Chapter: Computing and storage models for edge computing, Edge Computing: Models, technologies and applications, IET, 2020
  17. Dhruv Garg, Prathik Shirolkar, Anshu Shukla and Yogesh Simmhan, TorqueDB: Distributed Querying of Time-Series Data from Edge-local Storage, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), LNCS 12247, Springer, 2020 [CORE A]
  18. Sumit Kumar Monga, R. Sheshadri K and Yogesh Simmhan, ElfStore: A Resilient Data Storage Service for Federated Edge and Fog Resources, IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS), 2019 [CORE A]
  19. Yogesh Simmhan, Encyclopedia of Big Data Technologies , , 2019
  20. Aakash Khochare, Pushkara Ravindra, Siva Prakash Reddy, and Yogesh Simmhan, Distributed Video Analytics across Edge and Cloud using ECHO, International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) Demo, 2017
  21. Shilpa Chaturvedi, Sahil Tyagi, and Yogesh Simmhan, Collaborative Reuse of Streaming Dataflows in IoT Applications , IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience), 2017
  22. Anshu Shukla, and Yogesh Simmhan, RIoTBench: An IoT Benchmark for Distributed Stream Processing Systems , Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2017
  23. Qunzhi Zhou, Yogesh Simmhan, and Viktor Prasanna, Knowledge-infused and Consistent Complex Event Processing over Real-time and Persistent Streams , Future Generation Computer Systems, 2017
  24. Alok Kumbhare, Marc Frincu, Yogesh Simmhan, and Viktor K. Prasanna, Fault-Tolerant and Elastic Streaming MapReduce with Decentralized Coordination , IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2015

Hybrid Cloud, Agentic and Quantum Platforms

Pre-prints
  1. Varad Kulkarni, Vaibhav Jha, Nikhil Reddy, Anand Eswaran, Praveen Jayachandran, Yogesh Simmhan, Optimizing FaaS Platforms for MCP-enabled Agentic Workflows, arXiv:2601.14735, 2026
  2. Shikhar Srivastava, Ritajit Majumdar, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Anupama Ray, Yogesh Simmhan Shikhar Srivastava, Ritajit Majumdar, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Anupama Ray, Yogesh Simmhan, Lightweight Targeted Estimation of Layout Noise in a Quantum Computer using Quality Indicator Circuits, arXiv:2509.18679, 2025
Refereed Publications
  1. Varad Kulkarni, Vaibhav Jha, Nikhil Reddy, Anand Eswaran, Praveen Jayachandran and Yogesh Simmhan, XCAgent: Automating Multi-Cloud Deployment of Agentic Workflows on FaaS Platforms, IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2026 (To appear, Short Paper)
  2. Prathamesh Saraf Vinayak, Saswat Subhajyoti Mallick, Lakshmi Jagarlamudi, Anirban Chakraborty and Yogesh Simmhan, CARL: Cost-optimized Online Container Placement on VMs using Adversarial Reinforcement Learning, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2025
  3. Yinfang Chen, Manish Shetty, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Jonathan Mace, Chetan Bansal, Rujia Wang and Saravan Rajmohan, AIOpsLab: A Holistic Framework to Evaluate AI Agents for Enabling Autonomous Clouds, Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys), 2025 (Artifact Functional Badge) (arXiv)
  4. Vaibhav Jha, Shikhar Srivastava, Tarun Pal, Vaishnav Manoj, Ritajit Majumdar, Tuhin Khare, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Varad Kulkarni, Anupama Ray and Yogesh Simmhan, Choreography and Profiling of Quantum-Classical FaaS Workflows On Hybrid Clouds, IEEE CCGRID, 2025
  5. Shiva Sai Krishna Anand Tokal, Vaibhav Jha, Anand Eswaran, Praveen Jayachandran and Yogesh Simmhan, Towards Orchestrating Agentic Applications as FaaS Workflows, Workshop on HPC for AI Foundation Models & LLMs for Science (HPAI4S), Co-located with IEEE IPDPS 2025
  6. Varad Kulkarni, Nikhil Reddy, Tuhin Khare, Harini Mohan, Jahnavi Murali, Mohith A, Ragul B, Sanjai Balajee, Sanjjit S, Swathika Durairaj, Vaishnavi S, Yashasvee V, Chitra Babu, Abhinandan S Prasad and Yogesh Simmhan, XFBench: A Cross-Cloud Benchmark Suite for Evaluating FaaS Workflow Platforms, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2024 (Open Research Objects (ORO) and Research Objects Reviewed (ROR) Badges) [CORE B]
  7. Shikhar Srivastava, Mridulanka Nath, Tarun Harishchandra Pal, Vaishnav Manoj Kavitha, Ritajit Majumdar, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri, Anupama Ray, Yogesh Simmhan, Towards Platform-aware Application of Qubit Reuse in Hybrid Quantum-Classical Workflows, HiPC-W SRS, 2024
  8. Manish Shetty, Yinfang Chen, Gagan Somashekar, Minghua Ma, Yogesh Simmhan, Xuchao Zhang, Jonathan Mace, Dax Vandevoorde, Pedro Las-Casas, Shachee Mishra Gupta, Suman Nath, Chetan Bansal and Saravan Rajmohan, Building AI Agents for Autonomous Clouds: Challenges and Design Principles, ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2024 (arXiv)
  9. Tuhin Khare, Ritajit Majumdar, Rajiv Sangle, Anupama Ray, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri and Yogesh Simmhan, Parallelizing Quantum-Classical Workloads: Profiling the Impact of Splitting Techniques, IEEE QCE, 2023
  10. Rajiv Sangle, Tuhin Khare, Padmanabha Venkatagiri Seshadri and Yogesh Simmhan, Comparing the Orchestration of Quantum Applications on Hybrid Clouds, CCGrid Student Research Symposium, 2023
  11. Aakash Khochare, Tuhin Khare, Varad Kulkarni and Yogesh Simmhan, XFaaS: Cross-platform Orchestration of FaaS Workflows on Hybrid Clouds, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2023 (Open Research Objects (ORO) and Research Objects Reviewed (ROR) Badges) [CORE A]
  12. Prateeksha Varshney, Shriram Ramesh, Shayal Chhabra, Aakash Khochare and Yogesh Simmhan, Resilient Execution of Data-triggered Applications on Edge, Fog and Cloud Resources, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2022 [CORE A]
  13. Aakash Khochare, Yogesh Simmhan, Sameep Mehta and Arvind Agarwal, Poster: Toward Scientific Workflows in a Serverless World, IEEE e-Science Conference, 2022
  14. Shrey Baheti, Shreyas Badiger and Yogesh Simmhan, VIoLET: An Emulation Environment for Validating IoT Deployments at Large-Scales, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS), 2021
  15. Prateeksha Varshney and Yogesh Simmhan, Characterizing application scheduling on edge, fog, and cloud computing resources, Software: Practice and Experience, 2020, pp. 558–595
  16. Rajkumar Buyya, Satish Narayana Srirama, Giuliano Casale, Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Yogesh Simmhan, Blesson Varghese, Erol Gelenbe, Bahman Javadi, Luis Miguel Vaquero, Marco A. S. Netto, Adel Nadjaran Toosi, Maria Alejandra Rodriguez, Ignacio Martin Llorente, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Pierangela Samarati, Dejan S. Milojicic, Carlos A. Varela, Rami Bahsoon, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, Omer Rana, Wanlei Zhou, Hai Jin, Wolfgang Gentzsch, Albert Y. Zomaya and Haiying Shen, A Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing: Research Directions for the Next Decade, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 51(5), 2019 [CORE A*]
  17. Prateeksha Varshney and Yogesh Simmhan, AutoBoT: Resilient and Cost-effective Scheduling of a Bag of Tasks on Spot VMs, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 30(7), 2019 [CORE A*]
  18. Shilpa Chaturvedi and Yogesh Simmhan, Toward Resilient Stream Processing on Clouds using Moving Target Defense, IEEE International Symposium on Real-Time Distributed Computing (ISORC), 2019
  19. Rajrup Ghosh and Yogesh Simmhan, Distributed Scheduling of Event Analytics across Edge and Cloud, ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS), 2(4), 2018
  20. Anshu Shukla and Yogesh Simmhan, Model-driven Scheduling for Distributed Stream Processing Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 117, 2018, pp. 98–114
  21. Rajrup Ghosh, Siva Prakash Reddy and Yogesh Simmhan, Adaptive Energy-aware Scheduling of Dynamic Event Analytics across Edge and Cloud Resources, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2018 [CORE A]
  22. Anshu Shukla and Yogesh Simmhan, Toward Reliable and Rapid Elasticity for Streaming Dataflows on Clouds, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018 [CORE A]
  23. Prateeksha Varshney, and Yogesh Simmhan, Demystifying Fog Computing: Characterizing Architectures, Applications and Abstractions , IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC), 2017
  24. Pushkara Ravindra, Aakash Khochare, Siva Prakash Reddy, Sarthak Sharma, Prateeksha Varshney, and Yogesh Simmhan, ECHO: An Adaptive Orchestration Platform for Hybrid Dataflows across Cloud and Edge, International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC), 2017
  25. Alok Gautam Kumbhare, Yogesh Simmhan, Marc Frincu, and Viktor K. Prasanna, Reactive Resource Provisioning Heuristics for Dynamic Dataflows on Cloud Infrastructure , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), 2015
  26. Jayanth Kalyanasundaram, and Yogesh Simmhan, ARM Wrestling with Big Data: A Study of Commodity ARM64 Server for Big Data Workloads , IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2017
  27. Vedsar Kushwaha, and Yogesh Simmhan, An Analysis of Spot-Priced Clouds for Practical Job Scheduling , IEEE Cloud Computing for Emerging Markets (CCEM), 2014
  28. Hsuan-Yi Chu, and Yogesh Simmhan, Cost-efficient and Resilient Job Life-cycle Management on Hybrid Clouds , IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2014
  29. Nithyashri Govindarajan, Yogesh Simmhan, Nitin Jamadagni, and Prasant Misra, Event Processing across Edge and the Cloud for Internet of Things Applications, International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2014
  30. Alok Kumbhare, Yogesh Simmhan, and Viktor K. Prasanna, PLAStiCC: Predictive Look-Ahead Scheduling for Continuous dataflows on Clouds , IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014

Scalable Dynamic Graphs and GNNs

Pre-prints
  1. Pranjal Naman, Parv Agarwal, Hrishikesh Haritas, Yogesh Simmhan, RIPPLE++: An Incremental Framework for Efficient GNN Inference on Evolving Graphs, arXiv:2601.12347, 2026
Refereed Publications
  1. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, OptimES: Optimizing Federated Learning using Remote Embeddings for Graph Neural Networks, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2026 (arXiv)
  2. Ruchi Bhoot, Tuhin Khare, Manoj Agarwal, Siddharth Jaiswal, and Yogesh Simmhan, Triparts: Scalable Streaming Graph Partitioning to Enhance Community Structure, Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 18, 2025, DOI (Artifact Available Badge) [CORE A*]
  3. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, Ripple: Scalable Incremental GNN Inferencing on Large Streaming Graphs, 45th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2025 (arXiv) [CORE A]
  4. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, Optimizing Federated Learning using Remote Embeddings for Graph Neural Networks, 30th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar), 2024 (arXiv) [CORE B]
  5. Pranjal Naman and Yogesh Simmhan, Topology-Aware Aggregation for Federated Graph Learning, International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing PhD Symposium (EuroParW), 2024
  6. Ruchi Bhoot, Suved Sanjay Ghanmode and Yogesh Simmhan, TARIS: Scalable Incremental Processing of Time-respecting Algorithms on Streaming Graphs, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2024 [IF 5.6, CORE A*]
  7. Animesh Baranawal and Yogesh Simmhan, Optimizing the Interval-centric Distributed Computing Model for Temporal Graph Algorithms, European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2022 (Artifact Functional Badge) [CORE A]
  8. Varad Kulkarni, Ruchi Bhoot and Yogesh Simmhan, Poster: I-WICM: Incremental Graph Computation using Optimized Interval-centric Distributed Model, Student Research Symposium (SRS), IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2022
  9. Shriram Ramesh, Animesh Baranawal, and Yogesh Simmhan, Granite: A Distributed Engine for Scalable Path Queries over Temporal Property Graphs, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 151, 94–111, 2021 [CORE A*]
  10. Amrita Namtirtha, Animesh Dutta, Biswanath Dutta, Amritha Sundararajan and Yogesh Simmhan, Best Influential Spreaders Identification Using Network Global Structural Properties, Nature Scientific Reports, 2021
  11. Shriram Ramesh, Animesh Baranawal and Yogesh Simmhan, A Distributed Path Query Engine for Temporal Property Graphs, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2020
  12. Swapnil Gandhi and Yogesh Simmhan, An Interval-centric Model for Distributed Computing over Temporal Graphs, IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2020
  13. Siddharth D. Jaiswal and Yogesh Simmhan, A Partition-centric Distributed Algorithm for Identifying Euler Circuits in Large Graphs, IEEE Workshop on High-Performance Big Data, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing (HPBDC), Co-located with IEEE IPDPS, 2019, pp. 452–459
  14. Ravikant Dindokar and Yogesh Simmhan, Adaptive Partition Migration for Irregular Graph Algorithms on Elastic Resources, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2019, pp. 281–290 [CORE B]
  15. Safiollah Heidari, Yogesh Simmhan, Rodrigo N. Calheiros and Rajkumar Buyya, Scalable Graph Processing Frameworks: A Taxonomy and Open Challenges, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), 51(3), 2018, pp. 1–53
  16. Ravikant Dindokar, and Yogesh Simmhan, Characterization of Vertex-centric Breadth First Search for Lattice Graphs , IEEE International Workshop on Foundations in Big Data Computing (BigDF), Co-located with HiPC , 2017
  17. Ravikant Dindokar, Neel Choudhury, and Yogesh Simmhan, Analysis of Subgraph-centric Distributed Shortest Path Algorithm , IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics (ParLearning), Co-located with IPDPS , 2015
  18. Yogesh Simmhan, Neel Choudhury, Charith Wickramaarachchi, Alok Kumbhare, Marc Frincu, Cauligi Raghavendra, and Viktor Prasanna, Distributed Programming over Time-series Graphs , IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2015
  19. Yogesh Simmhan, Alok Kumbhare, Charith Wickramaarachchi, Soonil Nagarkar, Santosh Ravi, Cauligi Raghavendra, and Viktor Prasanna, GoFFish: A Sub-Graph Centric Framework for Large-Scale Graph Analytics , International European Conference on Parallel Processing (Euro-Par), 2014
  20. Nitin Chandra Badam, and Yogesh Simmhan, Subgraph Rank: PageRank for SubgraphCentric Distributed Graph Processing, International Conference on Management of Data (COMAD), 2014

Autonomous Systems

Pre-prints
  1. Suman Raj, Radhika Mittal, Rajiv Mayani, Pawel Zuk, Anirban Mandal, Michael Zink, Yogesh Simmhan, Ewa Deelman, AeroResQ: Edge-Accelerated UAV Framework for Scalable, Resilient and Collaborative Escape Route Planning in Wildfire Scenarios, arXiv:2511.00038, 2025
  2. Suman Raj, Bhavani A Madhabhavi, Madhav Kumar, Prabhav Gupta, Yogesh Simmhan, NeoARCADE: Robust Calibration for Distance Estimation to Support Assistive Drones for the Visually Impaired, arXiv:2504.01988, 2025
  3. Suman Raj, Swapnil Padhi, Ruchi Bhoot, Prince Modi, Yogesh Simmhan, Towards Perception-based Collision Avoidance for UAVs when Guiding the Visually Impaired, Late-Breaking Results at IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2023
Refereed Publications
  1. Suman Raj, Radhika Mittal, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Adaptive Heuristics for Scheduling DNN Inferencing on Edge and Cloud for Personalized UAV Fleets, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 2025 (arXiv)
  2. Shashwat Jaiswal, Suman Raj, Subhajit Sidhanta and Yogesh Simmhan, AerialDB: A federated peer-to-peer spatio-temporal edge datastore for drone fleets, Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMCJ), 2025 (arXiv) [IF 3.5]
  3. Suman Raj, Rajdeep Singh, Kautuk Astu and Yogesh Simmhan, AeroDaaS: Towards an Application Programming Framework for Drones-as-a-Service, IEEE ICWS, 2025 (short paper, extended arXiv) [CORE A]
  4. Aakash Khochare, Francesco Betti Sorbelli, Yogesh Simmhan and Sajal K. Das, Improved Algorithms for Co-scheduling of Edge Analytics and Routes for UAV Fleet Missions, IEEE/ACM TON, 2024 [CORE A*]
  5. Srikrishna Acharya B., Mukunda Bharatheesha, Yogesh Simmhan and Bharadwaj Amrutur, A Co-simulation Framework for Communication and Control in Autonomous Multi-Robot Systems, IEEE/RSJ IROS, 2023 [CORE A]
  6. Suman Raj, Swapnil Padhi, Ruchi Bhoot, Prince Modi and Yogesh Simmhan, Towards Collision Avoidance for UAVs to Guide the Visually Impaired, IROS Late Breaking Work, 2023
  7. Suman Raj, Swapnil Padi and Yogesh Simmhan, Ocularone: Exploring drones-based assistive technologies for the visually impaired, CHI EA, 2023
  8. Suman Raj, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Scheduling DNN Inferencing on Edge and Cloud for Personalized UAV Fleets, IEEE/ACM CCGRID, 2023 [CORE A]
  9. Srikrishna Acharya, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Mukunda Bharathesa and Yogesh Simmhan, CORNET 2.0: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks, International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2022, 10.1109/COMSNETS53615.2022.9668501
  10. Bharati Khanijo, Harshil Gupta and Yogesh Simmhan, Poster: D2V: Drone Data Ingest Mechanism for Video Databases, Student Research Symposium (SRS), IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC), 2022 (Best Poster Award)
  11. Aakash Khochare, Yogesh Simmhan, Francesco Betti Sorbelli and Sajal K. Das, Heuristic Algorithms for Co-scheduling of Edge Analytics and Routes for UAV Fleet Missions, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2021
  12. Srikrishna Acharya, S. Sadgun S. Devanahalli, Alok Rawat, Varghese P. Kuruvilla, Pratik Sharma, Bharadwaj Amrutur, Ashish Joglekar, Raghu Krishnakuram, Yogesh Simmhan and Himanshu Tyagi, Network Emulation For Tele-driving Application Development, IEEE COMSNETS, 2021
  13. Srikrishna Acharya, Amrutur Bharadwaj, Yogesh Simmhan, Aditya Gopalan, Parimal Parag and Himanshu Tyagi, CORNET: A Co-Simulation Middleware for Robot Networks, IEEE International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS), 2020

Smart Cities

Pre-prints
  1. Akash Sharma, Chinmay Mhatre, Sankalp Gawali, Ruthvik Bokkasam, Brij Kishore, Vishwajeet Pattanaik, Tarun Rambha, Abdul R. Pinjari, Vijay Kovvali, Anirban Chakraborty, Punit Rathore, Raghu Krishnapuram, Yogesh Simmhan, The Urban Vision Hackathon Dataset and Models: Towards Image Annotations and Accurate Vision Models for Indian Traffic, arXiv:2511.02563, 2025
Refereed Publications
  1. Akash Sharma, Pranjal Naman, Roopkatha Banerjee, Priyanshu Pansari, Sankalp Gawali, Mayank Arya, Sharath Chandra, Arun Josephraj, Rakshit Ramesh, Punit Rathore Anirban Chakraborty, Raghu Krishnapuram3,4, Vijay Kovvali4 and Yogesh Simmhan, Scaling Real-Time Traffic Analytics on Edge–Cloud Fabrics for City-Scale Camera Networks, TCSC SCALE Challenge, 2026 (To Appear)
  2. Amrita Namtirtha, Sheetal Kumar K., Sejal Jain, Yogesh Simmhan, M. S. Mohan Kumar, Placement Strategies for Water Quality Sensors using Complex Network Theory for Continuous and Intermittent Water Distribution Systems, Water Resources Research, 2023 [IF 6.159]
  3. Aakash Khochare, Aravindhan Krishnan, and Yogesh Simmhan A Scalable Platform for Distributed Object Tracking across a Many-camera Network, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 32, Pages 1479-1493, June 2021, 10.1109/TPDS.2021.3049450 [CORE A*]
  4. Ravi Sahu, Ayush Nagal, Kuldeep Kumar Dixit, Harshavardhan Unnibhavi, Srikanth Mantravadi, Srijith Nair, Yogesh Simmhan, Brijesh Mishra, Rajesh Zele, Ronak Sutaria, Vidyanand Motiram Motghare, Purushottam Kar and Sachchida Nand Tripathi, Robust statistical calibration and characterization of portable low-cost air quality monitoring sensors, Atmospheric Measurement Techniques (AMT), 2021
  5. Aakash Khochare and Yogesh Simmhan, A scalable and composable analytics platform for distributed wide-area tracking, ACM ICDCN, 2019 [CORE B] (Extended Abstract)
  6. Aakash Khochare, Sheshadri Ramachandra, Shriram Ramesh and Yogesh Simmhan, Dynamic Scaling of Video Analytics for Wide-area Tracking in Urban Spaces, IEEE SCALE (CCGRID), 2019 (SCALE Challenge Winner)
  7. Prithvi Alva, K. R. Sheetal Kumar, Yogesh Simmhan and M. S. Mohan Kumar, Enabling Equitable Water Supply in a Mega-city using a Big Data Analytics Platform, CCWI, 2019 (Extended Abstract)
  8. Yogesh Simmhan, Malati Hegde, Rajesh Zele, Sachchida N. Tripathi, Srijith Nair, Sumit K. Monga, Ravi Sahu, Kuldeep Dixit, Ronak Sutaria, Brijesh Mishra, Anamika Sharma and S. V. R. Anand, SATVAM: Toward an IoT Cyber-Infrastructure for Low-Cost Urban Air Quality Monitoring, IEEE eScience, 2019
  9. Saima Aman, Yogesh Simmhan, and Viktor Prasanna, Holistic Measures for Evaluating Prediction Models in Smart Grids , IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2015
  10. Saima Aman, Marc Frincu, Charalampos Chelmis, Muhammad Noor, Yogesh Simmhan, and Viktor K. Prasanna, Prediction Models for Dynamic Demand Response: Requirements, Challenges, and Insights , IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2015
  11. Prasant Misra, Yogesh Simmhan, and Jay Warrior, Towards a Practical Architecture for Internet of Things: An India-centric View, IEEE Internet of Things Newsletter, 2015

FinTech & DPI

Refereed Publications
  1. Shrey Baheti, Parwat Singh Anjana, Sathya Peri and Yogesh Simmhan, DiPETrans: A Framework for Distributed Parallel Execution of Transactions of Blocks in Blockchain, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2021
  2. Yogesh Simmhan, Anshu Shukla, and Arun Verma, Benchmarking Fast Data Platforms for the Aadhaar Biometric Database , Workshop on Big Data Benchmarking (WBDB), 2015

Genomics

Refereed Publications
  1. Chandrika Bhattacharyya et al., Mapping genetic diversity with the GenomeIndia project, Nature Genetics, 2025
  2. Ajeya B S, Sai Manasa Chadalavada, Nagakishore Jammula, Chirag Jain and Yogesh Simmhan, A Lossless Compression Pipeline for Petabyte-scale Whole Genome Sequencing Data, IEEE HiPC, 2023 (Short paper)
  3. Yogesh Simmhan, Tarun Rambha, Aakash Khochare, Shriram Ramesh, Animesh Baranawal, John Varghese George, Rahul Atul Bhope, Amrita Namtirtha, Amritha Sundararajan, Sharath Suresh Bhargav, Nihar Thakkar and Raj Kiran, GoCoronaGo: Privacy Respecting Contact Tracing for COVID-19 Management, Journal of the Indian Institute of Science, 2020
  4. Diksha Chaudhary, Bratati Kahali, and Yogesh Simmhan, An Empirical Study on Efficient Storage of Human Genome Data , Women in Data Science and Computing Workshop, Co-located with IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) , 2019

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Awards and Recognitions

Awards

  • Best Paper Finalist, IEEE eScience Conference, 2025
  • Top 2% Scientists (Distributed Computing/Artificial Intelligence), Stanford/Elsevier Dataset, 2019-2024
  • IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor, 2021
  • ACM Distinguished Member for "Outstanding Scientific Contributions to Computing", 2021
  • Outstanding Service Award, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGRID), 2021
  • IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Middle Career Researcher), 2020 for contributions to "Big Data Platforms, Programming Models and Dataflow Scheduling on Distributed Systems"
  • Swarna Jayanti Fellowship, 2019-2024. "Scalable Management and Analytics of Temporal Graphs"
  • Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), 2019. "Adaptive Partition Migration for Irregular Graph Algorithms on Elastic Resources", Dindokar and Simmhan
  • IEEE SCALE Challenge. First Place, 2019. "Dynamic Scaling of Video Analytics for Wide-area Tracking in Urban Spaces", Khochare, et al.
  • EuroPar Distinguished Paper Award, 2018. "VIoLET: A Large-scale Virtual Environment for Internet of Things", Badiger, Baheti and Simmhan
  • IEEE HiPC Best Paper Finalist, 2018. "ARM Wrestling with Big Data: A Study of Commodity ARM64 Server for Big Data Workloads", Jayanth Kalyanasundaram and Yogesh Simmhan
  • IEEE SCALE Challenge. First Place, 2012. "Adaptive Energy Forecasting and Information Diffusion for Smart Power Grids", Simmhan, et al.
  • Microsoft Ship-It Award, 2009. "Microsoft Trident Scientific Workflow Workbench", Barga, et al.
  • IEEE/ACM Supercomputing HPC Storage Challenge. First Place, 2008. "GrayWulf: Scalable Cluster Architecture for Data Intensive Computing", Szalay, et al.

News Highlights

Students

Students

DREAMers

Current Students

  1. Varad Vinod Kulkarni Ph.D. candidate, CDS (2021 - Present)
  2. Roopkatha Banerjee Ph.D. candidate, CDS, Prime Minister's Research Fellow (PMRF) (2021 - Present)
  3. Pranjal Naman Ph.D. student, CDS (2022 - Present)
  4. Mayank Arya Ph.D. student, CDS (2024 - Present)
  5. Amit Sharma Ph.D. student, IIT-Ropar, jointly with Prof. Nitin Auluck (2025 - Present)
  6. Kautuk Astu M.Tech.(Research) student, CDS Reliance Foundation Scholarship (2024-present)
  7. Debarthi Pal M.Tech.(Quantum Technologies) student, IQTI, jointly with Dr. Ritajit Majumdar (2024-present)
  8. Sakshi Chhabra M.Tech.(Research) student, CDS (2025-present)
  9. Abhinav Rawat M.Tech.(Research) student, CDS (2025-present)
  10. Yash Kamble B.Tech.(Math and Computing) student (2025-present)
  11. Naina Rabha M.Tech.(CDS) student, CDS (2026-present)
  12. Garvit Singh M.Tech.(RAS) student, RBCCPS (2026-present)
  13. Aryan Singh Sisodiya M.Tech.(Quantum Technologies) student, IQTI (2026-present)
  14. Sejadri Banik M.Tech.(Quantum Technologies) student, IQTI, (2026-present)

Current Staff

  1. Akash Sharma, Project Staff (2024 - Present)
  2. Vaibhav Jha, Project Staff (2024 - Present)
  3. Hrishikesh Haritas, Project Staff (2025 - Present)
  4. Priyanshu Pansari, Project Staff (202s - Present)
  5. Daksh Mehta, Project Staff (202s - Present)
  6. Nikhil Reddy, Project Staff (2025 - Present)
  7. Abdur Rahman Hatim, Project Staff (2026 - Present)
  8. Chandrachud Pati, Project Staff (2026 - Present)
  9. Haseeb Kollorath, Project Staff (2026 - Present)
  10. Sharath Chandra Madanu, Project Staff (2026 - Present)

Lab Alumni

Graduation year and last known affiliation of the lab alumnus
  1. Suman Raj Ph.D., CDS, 2025, University of Chicago
    • Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)
    • Dissertation Title: Scalable Platform for Intelligent Orchestration of Autonomous Systems Across Edge-Cloud Continuum
  2. Prashanthi Kadambi Ph.D., CDS, 2025, AMD
    • Prime Minister's Research Fellowship (PMRF)
    • Intel India Research Fellowship
    • Dissertation Title: Systems Optimizations for Deep Learning Training and Inference Workloads on Accelerated Edge Devices
  3. Divya Jyothsna Pulivarthi M.Tech.(CDS), 2025, jointly with Prof. Gugan Thoppe, Kotak Mahindra Bank
  4. Sqn Ldr Amandeep Kumar M.Tech.(CSE), 2025, jointly with Prof. Vinod Ganapathy
  5. Shikhar Srivastava M.Tech.(Quantum Technology), 2025, jointly with Dr. Ritajit Majumdar, LTIMindtree
  6. Ruchi Bhoot M.Tech.(Research), CDS, 2025, Fujitsu Research
    • Wells Fargo Fellowship
    • Thesis Title: Scalable Distributed Frameworks for Temporal Analysis and Partitioning of Streaming Graphs
  7. Akshat Kumar M.Tech.(CDS), 2023, Intel
  8. Bhartati Khanijo M.Tech.(Research), 2024, Open to Work!
    • Thesis Title: Scalable Video Data Management and Visual Querying for Autonomous Camera Networks
  9. Aakash Khochare Ph.D., 2023, Microsoft M365 Research
    • Dissertation Title: Abstractions and Optimizations for Data-driven Applications Across Edge and Cloud
  10. Jeet Ahuja Mukeshkumar M.Tech.(CDS), 2023, Mercedes Benz R&D
  11. Shreeparna Dey M.Tech.(CDS), 2023, Target Data Science
    • Wells Fargo Fellowship
  12. Vidushi Dwivedi M.Tech.(CDS), 2023, jointly with Prof. Chirag Jain. Qualcomm
    • Sony India Software Center Fellow
  13. Animesh Baranawal M.Tech.(Research), 2022, Philips Healthcare
    • IISc NetApp Medal for Best CDS M.Tech.(Research) Thesis (2023)
    • Thesis Title: Optimizing the Interval-centric Distributed Computing Model for Temporal Graph Algorithms
  14. Sunny Anand M.Tech.(CDS), 2021, jointly with Prof.Anirban Chakraborty Arkray
  15. Swapnil Gandhi M.Tech.(Research), 2020, Ph.D. Student, Stanford University
    • CDS Honorable Mention for M.Tech.(Research) Thesis (2020)
    • Thesis Title: Distributed Programming Abstraction for Scalable Processing of Temporal Graphs
  16. Siddharth Jaiswal M.Tech.(Research), 2020, Ph.D. Student, IIT, Kharagpur
    • Microsoft Data Science Fellowship
    • Thesis Title: Streaming Partitioning and Distributed Analytics on Large Graphs
  17. Shayal Chhabra M.Tech.(Research), 2020, Microsoft
    • Thesis Title: Scheduling of Tasks in Edge, Fog and Cloud
  18. Shriram Ramesh M.Tech.(CDS), 2020, Wells Fargo
    • IISc Motorola Medal for Best CDS M.Tech.(CDS) Thesis (2020)
  19. Prateeksha Varshney M.Tech.(Research), 2019, Microsoft
    • CDS Honorable Mention for M.Tech.(Research) Thesis (2019)
    • Thesis Title: Reliable and Efficient Application Scheduling on Edge, Fog and Cloud
  20. Shilpa Chaturvedi M.Tech.(Research), 2019, Google
    • Thesis Title: Efficient and Resilient Stream Processing in Distributed Shared Environment
  21. Shrey Baheti M.Tech.(CDS), 2019, Cargill
    • Cargill Fellowship
  22. Nashez Zubair M.Tech.(CDS), 2019, Blaize
  23. Anshu Shukla M.Sc.(Engg.), 2018, Microsoft
    • IISc NetApp Medal for Best CDS M.Sc.(Engg.) Thesis (2019)
  24. Ravikant Dindokar M.Sc.(Engg.), 2018, VMWare
  25. Abhilash Sharma M.Sc.(Engg.), 2018, SkyPoint Cloud
  26. Siva Prakash Reddy Komma M.Tech.(CDS), 2018, Oracle
  27. Rajrup Ghosh M.Tech.(CDS), 2017, Ph.D. Student, University of Southern California (USC)
    • IISc Motorola Medal for Best CDS M.Tech.(CDS) Thesis (2017)
  28. Neel Choudhury M.Tech.(CP), 2015, Google
    • IISc Motorola Medal for Best CDS M.Tech.(CP) Thesis (2015)
  29. Tarun Sharma M.Tech.(CP), 2015, Nvidia
  30. Vedsar Kushwaha M.Tech.(CP), 2015, Amazon Web Services

Teaching

Teaching

My teaching emphasizes systems thinking, hands-on engineering, and exposure to real-world platforms, increasingly augmented by AI agents as instructional tools.

The primary elective course I teach is DS256: Scalable Systems for Data Science (3:1), taught in the Jan semester since 2016. This soft-core course for the M.Tech. (CDS) program covers distributed systems platforms and tools essential for designing algorithms, programming data-intensive applications and analyzing Big Data. A substantial programming project forms the backbone of the course, with students working on large, real-world datasets using distributed and cloud‑scale platforms. In 2026, the students are building an end-to-end LLM data engineering and training pipeline using Spark and DeepStream.

I have resumed offering DS252: Introduction to Cloud Computing (3:1) in the Aug 2025 semester, redesigned around a novel pedagogical paradigm that actively incorporates AI Agents into the teaching workflow. The course uses Agentic Instructors to lead students through inquiry‑driven learning paths, with human instructors providing conceptual grounding, supervision, and critical intervention where needed. Students also undertake a major capstone project centered on designing and deploying AI Agents, making the course an experiment in the future of AI‑augmented higher education.

I also teach the online core course DA231: Data Engineering at Scale (3:1) for the M.Tech. in Data Science and Business Analytics (DSBA) program, initiated in Aug 2021 as part of IISc's strategic expansion into high-quality online professional degrees. This course trains students in the use of modern Big Data platforms to acquire, manage, process and derive insights from large-scale, high-velocity and linked datasets, while grounding them in the distributed systems principles that enable scalability and reliability.

I periodically co-teach DS221: Introduction to Scalable Systems (3:0) in rotation with Profs. Sathish Vadhiyar and Chirag Jain. This core course introduces students, particularly those without an undergraduate CS background, to essential systems topics including computer architecture, operating systems, data structures, algorithms, parallel computing and Big Data platforms.

In addition, I regularly deliver lectures on data engineering, cloud systems and IoT as part of multiple IISc-TalentSprint online certification programs, including the Advanced Certification Programs in Computational Data Science.

Earlier, I taught DS286: Data Structures and Programming (2:1) and co-taught SE292: High Performance Computing (3:0); both have since been discontinued, with their content absorbed into DS221. I also previously offered SE252: Introduction to Cloud Computing (3:1) as an elective, covering foundational concepts in parallel/distributed computing, Cloud service models (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), Big Data computational patterns, and Cloud performance evaluation—topics now partly included within DS256.

Service

Professional Service

Current Service

Conference/Journal Leadership and Program Committees

Other Service

  • Executive Council Member, ACM India (2022 - Present)
  • Co-chair, Chapters and Membership Committee, ACM India (2024 - Present)
  • Member, The ACM Distinguished Speakers Program Committee (2022 - Present)
  • Member, Technology Advisory Committee (TAC), National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI) (2023 - Present)
  • Invited Expert, IT Sub Committee (ITSC), Reserve Bank of India (RBI) (2018 - Present)
  • Member, LITD-15 sectional committee (Data Management Systems), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) (2021 - Present)
  • Review Panel Member, ANRF Advanced Research Grant (ARG) (2025- Present)
  • Member Governing Board, Cloud Computing Innovation Council of India (CCICI) (2021 - Present)
  • Co-chair, Data Science and Mathematics Domain Expert Committee, Scheme for Transformational and Advanced Research in Sciences (STARS), MOE and IISc (2020-Present)
  • Member Advisory and Review Committee, Integration of databases and data sharing, National One Health Mission (2025-Present)

Recent Past Service

Conference/Journal Leadership and Program Committees

Other Service

Collaborations

Grants and Collaborations

Yogesh has been the recipient of numerous sponsored research grants from major Government of India agencies, including the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), Ministry of Education (MoE/MHRD), Department of Science and Technology (DST) and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), along with international support from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF). He has been an investigator on sponsored projects cumulatively funded at about INR 20 Crores (USD 2.25 Million) at IISc, and has previously received competitive grants from the US NSF, DARPA and DOE.

In parallel, he has built a strong ecosystem of industry-aligned research, securing faculty fellowships, unrestricted grants, CSR support, and cloud credits from organizations such as NPCI, IBM Research, Microsoft, Accenture, VMWare, Facebook, NetApp ATG, Huawei, AWS and TechMahindra. These sustained collaborations, totalling over INR 15.5 crores (USD 1.7 Million), have also enabled the establishment of multiple Centers of Excellence in partnership with IBM, NPCI and Accenture, advancing research in hybrid cloud platforms, quantum-classical orchestration, scalable fintech analytics, and distributed AI systems.

Together, these grants and partnerships support his lab's research activities and provide the foundation for high-impact, translational research that connects rigorous systems innovation with real-world national-scale deployments.

IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud Lab (IIHCL)

Yogesh coordinates the IBM-IISc Hybrid Cloud Lab, a five-year strategic research partnership focused on advancing hybrid cloud, AI and quantum-classical platforms. The lab develops novel architectures for multicloud portability, resource-efficient AI pipelines and hybrid quantum workflows, with IISc faculty working closely with IBM Research teams. This open research collaboration has produced high-impact results, including open-source cross-cloud serverless orchestration frameworks, early-stage quantum-cloud integration prototypes, and a numbver of research papers.

NPCI-IISc Center of Excellence on Deep-Tech

Yogesh coordinates the NPCI-IISc Center of Excellence on Deep Tech R&D, an initiative to strengthen the scalability, reliability and intelligence of India's Digital Public Infrastructure. The engagement between IISc faculty and NPCI researchers contributes to high-throughput consensus mechanisms for private blockchain deployments, large-scale fraud detection using graph learning, and resilient data-management platforms for UPI-scale transaction flows. They also host a Research Fellows (RF) program. This enables deep, sustained industry-academia collaboration to shape next-generation fintech systems for India.

Career

Career

Appointments

Training

Join Us

Opportunities for Potential Students, Staff and Interns

We are actively looking for motivated Ph.D. and M.Tech (Research) students, high‑commitment interns, and skilled R&D staff to contribute to cutting‑edge research in distributed systems, cloud/edge platforms, scalable AI/ML systems, and large‑scale data analytics.

Research Students (Ph.D. / M.Tech (Research))

If you are passionate about building real systems, enjoy deep technical thinking, and have solid skills in programming, algorithms, distributed systems and/or applied ML, we encourage you to apply through the IISc CDS Research Admissions and list DREAM:Lab among your preferred groups. You will need a GATE score in CS/EC/EC/IN subjects, or have a UG degree from a CFTI University (IIT/NIT), or have a prior Masters degree. Admissions are open in March of each year and interviews happen in May.

Internships (Minimum 6 months, in person at IISc)

We welcome highly driven interns who can spend 6+ months full-time on campus and eager to gain hands-on research experience in systems and AI, and contribute meaningfully to ongoing projects. You need to have demonstrable experience in programming/data structures/alorithms (e.g., competitive coding) and have worked with large code bases and distributed/ML platforms.

R&D Staff Positions (2+ years experience)

We also recruit R&D staff with strong programming and systems backgrounds, usually with 1-5 years of industry experience, who seek exposure to research and want to strengthen their profile for future higher-education (MS, PhD) applications. Please note that these roles follow the standard GoI pay scales for Project Associates, which are much lower than industry payscales, but offer the opportunity to build a strong research portfolio.