My work has been published at the top computer systems and energy systems venues, including ASPLOS (x2), EuroSys (x2), SIGMETRICS/Performance (x4), SoCC (x4), SC (x1), ICML (x1), e-Energy (x8), BuildSys (x4), and HotCarbon (x4).

  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. SoCC 2024
    "The Sunk Carbon Fallacy: Rethinking Carbon Footprint Metrics for Effective Carbon-Aware Scheduling" -- Noman Bashir, Varun Gohil, Mohammad Shahrad, David Irwin, Anagha B. Subramanya, Elsa Olivetti, and Christina Delimitrou -- ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) , 2024. PDF
  3. EuroSys 2024
    "On the Limitations of Carbon-Aware Temporal and Spatial Workload Shifting in the Cloud" -- Thanathorn Sukprasert, Abel Souza, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys) , 2024. PDF
  4. ASPLOS 2024
    "Going Green for Less Green: Optimizing the Cost of Reducing Cloud Carbon Emissions" -- Walid Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, Noman Bashir, Abel Souza, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS) , 2024. PDF
  5. ICML 2024
    "Chasing Convex Functions with Long-term Constraints" -- Adam Lechowicz, Nicolas Christianson, Bo Sun, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, and Prashant Shenoy -- The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) , 2024. PDF
  6. SIGMETRICS 2024
    "Online Conversion with Switching Costs: Robust and Learning-Augmented Algorithms" -- Adam Lechowicz, Nicolas Christianson, Bo Sun, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS) , 2024. PDF
  7. 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
  8. SIGMETRICS 2024
    "The Online Pause and Resume Problem: Optimal Algorithms and An Application to Carbon-Aware Load Shifting" -- Adam Lechowicz, Nicolas Christianson, Jinhang Zuo, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS) , 2024. PDF
  9. e-Energy 2024
    "LACS: Learning-Augmented Algorithms for Carbon-Aware Resource Scaling with Uncertain Demand" -- Roozbeh Bostandoost, Adam Lechowicz, Walid Hanafy, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili -- ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) , 2024. PDF
  10. e-Energy 2024
    "The Green Mirage: Impact of Location- and Market-based Carbon Intensity Estimation on Carbon Optimization Efficacy," -- Diptyaroop Maji, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Ramesh K. Sitaraman -- ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) , 2024. Awarded PDF
  11. e-Energy 2024
    "Short Paper – On the Implications of Choosing Average versus Marginal Carbon Intensity Signals on Carbon-aware Optimizations" -- Thanathorn Sukprasert, Noman Bashir, Abel Souza, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) , 2024. Awarded PDF
  12. e-Energy 2024
    "A Holistic Approach for Equity-aware Carbon Reduction of the Ridesharing Platforms" -- Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili -- ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) , 2024. PDF
  13. HotCarbon 2024
    "Data-driven Algorithm Selection for Carbon-Aware Scheduling" -- Roozbeh Bostandoost, Walid A. Hanafy, Adam Lechowicz, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, and Prashant Shenoy -- Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon) , 2024. PDF
  14. ISEMV 2024
    "Scoping Sustainable Collaborative Mixed Reality" -- Yasra Chandio, Noman Bashir, Tian Guo, Elsa Olivetti, and Fatima M. Anwar -- IEEE International Symposium on Emerging Metaverse (ISEMV) , 2024. PDF
  15. BuildSys 2024
    "Short Paper – Examining the Adoption of Electromobility Concepts Across Social Contexts for Energy Transition" -- Julia Köhlke, Adam Lechowicz, Oluwole Fabikun, Noman Bashir, Abel Souza, Prashant Shenoy, and Sebastian Lehnhoff -- ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys) , 2024. PDF
  16. EDA 2024
    "Untangling Carbon-free Energy Attribution and Carbon Intensity Estimation for Carbon-aware Computing" -- Diptyaroop Maji, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Ramesh K Sitaraman -- ACM e-Energy International Workshop on Energy Data and Analytics (EDA) , 2024. PDF
  17. 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
  18. e-Energy 2023
    "Jointly Managing Electrical and Thermal Energy in Solar- and Battery-powered Computer Systems" -- Noman Bashir, Yasra Chandio, David Irwin, Fatima M. Anwar, Jeremy Gummeson, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) , 2023. PDF
  19. e-Energy 2023
    "Equitable Network-Aware Decarbonization of Residential Heating at City Scale" -- Adam Lechowicz, Noman Bashir, John Wamburu, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy) , 2023. PDF
  20. SoCC 2023
    "Carbon Containers: A System-level Facility for Managing Application-level Carbon Emissions," -- John Thiede, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) , 2023. PDF
  21. IoTDI 2023
    "Dělen: Enabling Flexible and Adaptive Model-serving for Multi-tenant Edge AI" -- Qianlin Liang, Walid Hanafy, Noman Bashir, Ahemd Ali-Eldin, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) , 2023. PDF
  22. SEC 2023
    "Energy Time Fairness: Balancing Fair Allocation of Energy and Time for GPU Workloads" -- Qianlin Liang, Walid Hanafy, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) , 2023. PDF
  23. Performance 2023
    "WattScope: Non-intrusive Application-level Power Disaggregation in Datacenters" -- Xiaoding Guan, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- IFIP International Symposium on Computer Performance, Modeling, Measurements and Evaluation (Performance) , 2023. PDF
  24. IGSC 2023
    "No Free Lunch: Analyzing the Cost of Deep Decarbonizing Residential Heating Systems" -- Anupama Sitaraman, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- International Green & Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) , 2023. Awarded PDF
  25. ICPE 2023
    "Is Sharing Caring? Analyzing the Incentives for Shared Cloud Clusters" -- Talha Mehboob, Noman Bashir, Michael Zink, and David Irwin -- ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) , 2023. Awarded PDF
  26. HotCarbon 2023
    "On the Promise and Pitfalls of Optimizing Embodied Carbon" -- Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon) , 2023. arXiv PDF
  27. HotCarbon 2023
    "The War of the Efficiencies: Understanding the Tension between Carbon and Energy Optimization" -- Walid Hanafy, Roozbeh Bostandoost, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, and Prashant Shenoy -- Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon) , 2023. arXiv PDF
  28. EIR 2023
    "Analyzing the Impact of Decarbonizing Residential Heating on the Electric Distribution Grid" -- John Wamburu, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- SIGENERGY Energy Informatics Review (EIR) , 2023. PDF
  29. CPSIS 2023
    "Quantifying the Decarbonization Potential of Flexible Load" -- Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj, Noman Bashir, Vivek Deulkar, Bharathan Balaji, Prashant Shenoy, David Irwin, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili -- ACM BuildSys International Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Social Infrastructure Systems (CPSIS) , 2023. PDF
  30. EIR 2022
    "Equity-Aware Decarbonization of Residential Heating Systems" -- John Wamburu, Noman Bashir, Emma Grazier, David Irwin, Christine Crago, and Prashant Shenoy -- SIGENERGY Energy Informatics Review (EIR) , 2022. PDF
  31. BuildSys 2022
    "Data-driven Decarbonization of Residential Heating Systems" -- John Wamburu, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys) , 2022. PDF
  32. HotCarbon 2022
    "Sustainable Computing - Without the Hot Air" -- Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant J. Shenoy, and Abel Souza -- Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon) , 2022. PDF
  33. SoCC 2021
    "Enabling Sustainable Clouds: The Case for Virtualizing the Energy System" -- Noman Bashir, Tian Guo, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, Ramesh Sitaraman, Abel Souza, and Adam Wierman -- ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) , 2021. PDF
  34. 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
  35. IGSC 2021
    "A Probabilistic Approach to Committing Solar Energy in Day-ahead Electricity Markets" -- Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC) , 2021. PDF
  36. SoCC 2021
    "Good Things Come to Those Who Wait: Optimizing Job Waiting in the Cloud" -- Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) , 2021. PDF
  37. TCPS 2021
    "Model-driven Per-panel Solar Anomaly Detection for Residential Arrays" -- Menghong Feng, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, David Irwin, and Beka Kosanovic -- ACM Transaction Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS) , 2021. PDF
  38. TPDS 2021
    "Modeling and Analyzing Waiting Policies for Cloud-Enabled Schedulers" -- Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy -- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) , 2021. PDF
  39. COMPASS 2020
    "Extend: A Framework for Increasing Energy Access by Interconnecting Solar Home Systems" -- Santiago Correa, Noman Bashir, Andrew Tran, David Irwin, and Jay Taneja -- ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) , 2020. PDF
  40. COMPASS 2020
    "Short Paper – SunDown: Model-driven Per-Panel Solar Anomaly Detection for Residential Arrays" -- Menghong Feng, Noman Bashir, Prashant J. Shenoy, David Irwin, and Dragoljub Kosanovic -- ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS) , 2020. PDF
  41. SC 2020
    "Waiting Game: Optimally Provisioning Fixed Resources for Cloud-enabled Schedulers" -- Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- Supercomputing , 2020. PDF
  42. BuildSys 2020
    "DeepSnow: Modeling the Impact of Snow on Solar Generation" -- Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys) , 2020. PDF
  43. IC2E 2020
    "Invited Paper – Hedge Your Bets: Optimizing Long-term Cloud Costs by Mixing VM Purchasing Options" -- Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, and Prashant Shenoy -- IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) , 2020. PDF
  44. MASS 2019
    "Invited Paper – Solar-TK: A Data-Driven Toolkit for Solar PV Performance Modeling and Forecasting" -- Noman Bashir, Dong Chen, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS) , 2019. PDF
  45. BuildSys 2018
    "Helios: A Programmable Software-defined Solar Module" -- Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy -- ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys) , 2018. PDF
  46. BuildSys 2017
    "Enforcing Fair Grid Energy Access for Controllable Distributed Solar Capacity" -- Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant J. Shenoy, and Jay Taneja -- ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys) , 2017. PDF