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CV, Research Statement, Teaching Statement, Diversity Statement.

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).

I work on improving the sustainability of computing and AI. I demonstrate that the status quo approach to computing sustainability, i.e., the lone focus on improving energy efficiency, is insufficient to tackle the emerging dynamics of saturating efficiency gains, exponential growth in computing demand, and electricity availability constraints. To solve this problem, I design systems, algorithms, and metrics that elevate sustainability to a first-class objective in computer system design and operation.

Impact: I have made fundamental contributions to the design of sustainable computer systems through multiple artifacts, such as EcoVisor, CarbonContainers, CarbonScaler, and WattScope. One of my solutions to improving resource efficiency in datacenters is deployed on all the Google datacenters serving applications such as Google Search, Gmail, and YouTube.

Before 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. I also worked at VMWare Research Group on Computing Sustainability Benchmarking.

Before UMass: I worked as a Research Assistant at the Advanced Communication Lab at LUMS, Pakistan, and Systems & Networks 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.

Latest News

04/11/2025: Our paper titled LEAD: Towards Learning-Based Equity-Aware Decarbonization in Ridesharing Platforms was accepted to ACM FAccT 2025.
04/08/2025: I will be a speaking at Cambridge Public Library on the topic of The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI on May 22nd, 2025.
04/08/2025: I will be a panelist at GreenAI Summit on the topic of AI and Data Center Energy Usage and Environmental Impact on April 25th, 2025 at Harvard University and Boston University.
04/04/2025: Both of my submissions to ACM HPDC got rejected. This is the sixth rejection for one paper and a second rejection for the other.
01/28/2025: I will be serving as the program committee member at EuroSys 2026.

Selected Publications

  1. MIT 2024
    "The Climate and Sustainability Implications of Generative AI" -- Noman Bashir, Priya Donti, James Cuff, Sydney Sroka, Marija Ilic, Vivienne Sze, Christina Delimitrou, and Elsa Olivetti -- An MIT Exploration of Generative AI , 2024. PDF
  2. SIGMETRICS 2024
    "CarbonScaler: Leveraging Cloud Workload Elasticity for Optimizing Carbon-Efficiency" -- Walid Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS) , 2024. Awarded PDF
  3. ASPLOS 2023
    "Ecovisor: A Virtual Energy System for Carbon-Efficient Applications" -- Abel Souza, Noman Bashir, Jorge Murillo, Walid Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, David E. Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) , 2023. arXiv Bib PDF
  4. EuroSys 2021
    "Take it to the Limit: Peak Prediction-driven Resource Overcommitment in datacenters" -- Noman Bashir, Nan Deng, Krzysztof Rzadca, David Irwin, Sree Kodak, and Rohit Jnagal -- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) , 2021. PDF