Hello CarbonMetrics 2026 attendees, welcome to the technical program for the workshop!

We are excited to welcome you to the second year of CarbonMetrics-focused workshop on metrics, modeling, and measurement strategies for carbon-aware computing and energy systems. Our program features insightful talks from researchers advancing rigorous, practical approaches to reducing carbon emissions across computing stacks and energy systems. We thank all speakers for contributing their work and joining us in shaping this community.

Location: Michigan Union, University of Michigan, 2210A - 2nd floor

Logistics: Each talk is allocated 30 minutes, split into 20-25 minutes of presentation followed by 5-10 minutes of Q&A. All times are in Eastern Time (ET, GMT-5).

Register for the workshop here: https://www.sigmetrics.org/sigmetrics2026/registration.html


08:50am - 09:00am: Opening Remarks

09:00am - 10:00am: Session Ⅰ

09:00am - 09:30am : Carbon Footprint Context Cards: A Metadata Framework for Software Carbon Accounting
Prateek Sharma, Changyuan Lin, Abel Souza, Mohammad Shahrad

Speaker: Prateek Sharma, IU Bloomington

09:30am - 10:00am : CARINA: Carbon-Aware Execution of Recurrent Industrial Analytics
Muhammad Umar Farooq

Speaker: Muhammad Umar Farooq, University of Michigan

10:00am - 10:30am: Coffee Break

10:30am - 12 noon: Session Ⅱ

10:30am - 11:00am : Evolving Electricity Markets to Consider Carbon-Aware Computing Loads
Line Roald, Wenqian Jiang

Speaker: Line Roald, University of Wisconsin, Madison

11:00am - 11:30am : Health-Aware Optimal Power Flow
Elizabeth Rogers, Umar Mohammad, Ian Atroshchenko, Christopher Yeh, Nicolas Christianson, Shaolei Ren, Adam Wierman

Speaker: Nicolas Christianson, Stanford University & Johns Hopkins University

11:30am - 12 noon: Panel on Measurements and Metrics for Sustainable Computing

Panelists: Prateek Sharma (Indiana University Bloomington), David Irwin (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Line Roald (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Vladimir Dvorkin (University of Michigan)

Moderator: Noman Bashir (Amazon Web Services)

12:00pm - 01:30pm: Lunch