On the ACADEMIC JOB MARKET: I am currently seeking a tenure-track faculty position. You can take a look at my CV and Research Statement for a closer look at my background and contributions. You can also access my Teaching Statement and Diversity Statement. I am always excited to share my work with potential colleagues and collaborators. If your department is hiring or if you are interested in learning more about my work, let's talk!
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
| 01/28/2025: I will be serving as the program committee member at EuroSys 2026. |
| 01/10/2025: Our paper highlighting the inequities in solar installations, Lost in Siting: The Hidden Carbon Cost of Inequitable Residential Solar Installations has been accepted to ACM e-Energy 2025. |
| 12/10/2024: Our paper Learning-Augmented Competitive Algorithms for Spatiotemporal Online Allocation with Deadline Constraints has been accepted to ACM SIGMETRICS 2025. |
| 12/03/2024: Gave an invited talk titled “Enable Sustainable Datacenters by Virtualizing Energy Systems” at Harvard SEAS. |
| 09/25/2024: My paper titled The Sunk Carbon Fallacy: Rethinking Carbon Footprint Metrics for Effective Carbon-Aware Scheduling has been accepted to ACM SoCC 2024. |