Noman Bashir

Computing & Climate Impact Fellow

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NE36 - 7100,

105 Broadway St,

Cambridge, MA 02142

I am the Computing & Climate Impact Fellow at MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) and a postdoc with Christina Delimitrou at MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

Before joining MIT, I was at UMass Amherst for 7+ years working with Prashant Shenoy as a postdoc and completing my PhD in Computer Engineering (2022) at the Sustainable Computing Lab with David Irwin.

During my PhD, I worked as a Student Researcher on Google’s Borg Scheduler mentored by Nan Deng and Krzysztof Rządca. Our work, published at EuroSys’21, represents the default resource overcommitment strategy across all of Google’s internal datacenters. I also worked at VMWare Research Group on Computing Sustainability Benchmarking.

Before joining UMass, I worked as a Research Assistant at the Advanced Communication Lab at LUMS, Pakistan, and Systems & Networks Research Lab at NUCES-NU, Pakistan. I did my MS in Energy Systems Engineering from Center for Advanced Studies in Energy at NUST, Pakistan and BS in Electrical (Power) Engineering at UET Lahore, Pakistan.

I take a huge pride academic service and was recognized as one of the top three reviewers at ACM e-Energy’23.

news

05/08/24 Gave an invited talk on the climate implications of Generative AI at the Conference on the Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence at The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School.
04/10/24 An MIT Climate and Sustainability Consortium news article, “Considering the Environmental Impacts of Generative AI to Spark Responsible Development”, on our Generative AI paper is published.
03/27/24 Our white paper on The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI is public now.