Noman Bashir

Noman Bashir

Computing & Climate Impact Fellow

Publications

You can also find my articles on my Google Scholar profile.

My work spans grid-aware sustainable computing, energy- and resource-efficient computer systems, societal-scale systems, and energy systems. A unifying theme across these domains is the design of sustainable, efficient, and reliable applications on top of inherently unreliable system and resource dynamics under real-world constraints. My research has been published in leading venues across computer systems and energy systems, including ASPLOS, EuroSys, SIGMETRICS/Performance, SoCC, SC, ICML, FAccT, e-Energy, BuildSys, and HotCarbon.

Under Review

  1. From Barrier to Bridge: Co-Developing AI Data Centers and Electric Grids
    Noman Bashir, Minlan Yu, Le Xie, Rob Sherwood, and others,
    Under Review, 2025
  2. When Machine Learning Isn’t Sure: Building Resilient ML-based Computer Systems by Embracing Uncertainty
    Varun Gohil, Nevena Stojkovic, Noman Bashir, Sundar Dev, Gaurang Upasani, David Lo, Parthasarathy Ranganathan, and Christina Delimitrou,
    Under Review, 2025
  3. Discernible Decision Making under Uncertainty in Sustainable Computing
    Noman Bashir, Anagha Subramanya, Julia Xia, Kelly Wu, Varun Gohil, Melissa Zgola, Ajay Gupta, Greg Norris, Elsa Olivetti, and Christina Delimitrou,
    Under Review, 2025
  4. SPADE: Signal-Aware DAG Scheduling and Dynamic Provisioning for Data Processing Clusters
    Adam Lechowicz, Rohan Shenoy, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, and Christina Delimitrou,
    Under Review, 2025
  5. Enabling Proactive Sustainability Interventions in Datacenters
    Yichen Gao, Noman Bashir, Christopher Hill, and Jeremy Gregory,
    Under Review, 2025
  6. Near-Optimal Emission-Aware Online Ride Assignment Algorithm for Peak Demand Hours
    Ali Zeynali, Mahsa Sahebdel, Noman Bashir, Ramesh Sitaraman, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili,
    Under Review, 2025
  7. 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,
    Under Review, 2025

Published Work

  1. Learning-Augmented Competitive Algorithms for Spatiotemporal Online Allocation with Deadline Constraints
    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), 2025
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  2. Dynamic Incentive Allocation for City-scale Deep Decarbonization
    Anupama Sitaraman, Adam Lechowicz, Noman Bashir, Xutong Liu, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, and Prashant Shenoy,
    ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS), 2025
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  3. Learning to Site: A Multi-objective Optimization of Rooftop Solar Installations using Evolutionary Neural Networks
    Cooper Sigrist, Archimedes Li, Alice Zhang, Adam Lechowicz, Noman Bashir, Pichsinee Lertsaroj, Ryan Boldi, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili,
    ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation (BuildSys), 2025
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  4. EcoLearn: Optimizing the Carbon Footprint of Federated Learning
    Talha Mehboob, Noman Bashir, Jesus Omana Iglesias, Michael Zink, and David Irwin,
    ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2025
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  5. Ahead of the Curve: Leveraging Periodicity to Improve Job Scheduling in Data Centers
    Xiaoding Guan, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, and David Irwin,
    IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E), 2025
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  6. Short Paper: Carbon-and Precedence-Aware Scheduling for Data Processing Clusters
    Adam Lechowicz, Rohan Shenoy, Noman Bashir, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, Adam Wierman, and Christina Delimitrou,
    ACM SIGCOMM, 2025
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  7. LEAD: Towards Learning-Based Equity-Aware Decarbonization in Ridesharing Platforms
    Mahsa Sahebdel, Ali Zeynali, Noman Bashir, Prashant Shenoy, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili,
    ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT), 2025
  8. Lost in Siting: The Hidden Carbon Cost of Inequitable Residential Solar Installations
    Cooper Sigrist, Adam Lechowicz, Jovan Champ, Noman Bashir, and Mohammad Hajiesmaili,
    ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy), 2025
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  9. 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
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  10. 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
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  11. 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
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  12. 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
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  13. 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
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  14. 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
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  15. 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
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  16. 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
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  17. 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
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  18. 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
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  19. 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
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  20. 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
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  21. 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
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  22. 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
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  23. 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
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  24. 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
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  25. 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
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  26. 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
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  27. 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
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  28. 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
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  29. 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
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  30. Energy Time Fairness: Balancing Fair Allocation of Energy and Time for GPU Workloads
    Qianlin Liang, Walid Hanafy, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy,
    IEEE/ACM Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), 2023
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  31. 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
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  32. No Free Lunch: Analyzing the Cost of Deep Decarbonizing Residential Heating Systems
    Anupama Sitaraman, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy,
    International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2023
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  33. 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
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  34. On the Promise and Pitfalls of Optimizing Embodied Carbon
    Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy,
    Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon), 2023
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  35. 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
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  36. 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
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  37. 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), 2023
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  38. 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
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  39. Sustainable Computing - Without the Hot Air
    Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant J. Shenoy, and Abel Souza,
    Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon), 2022
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  40. 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
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  41. 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
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  42. 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
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  43. 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
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  44. A Probabilistic Approach to Committing Solar Energy in Day-ahead Electricity Markets
    Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy,
    Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM), 2021
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  45. 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
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  46. 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
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  47. 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
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  48. Waiting Game: Optimally Provisioning Fixed Resources for Cloud-enabled Schedulers
    Pradeep Ambati, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant J. Shenoy,
    Supercomputing, 2020
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  49. 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
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  50. 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
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  51. 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
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  52. 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
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  53. Mechanisms and Policies for Controlling Distributed Solar Capacity
    Noman Bashir, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, and Jay Taneja,
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 2018
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  54. 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
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  55. Lifetime Maximization of Lead-Acid Batteries in Small Scale UPS and Distributed Generation Systems
    Noman Bashir, Hira Shahzad Sardar, Mashood Nasir, Naveed Ul Hassan, and Hassan A. Khan,
    IEEE PowerTech, 2017
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  56. Delivering Smart Load-shedding for Highly-stressed Grids
    Noman Bashir, Zohaib Sharani, Khushboo Qayyum, and Affan A. Syed,
    IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm), 2015
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