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). My CV is available at CV.

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.

If you’re interested in knowing my thoughts on the environmental impact of AI, please get in touch with Molly Chase, the Communications Manager at MIT Climate & Sustainability. You can reach out to Molly at https://impactclimate.mit.edu/people/molly-chase/.