News | Shashikant Ilager

Apr 01 Call for Papers: I am serving as a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on “Sustainable Digital Research Infrastructures for the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum” in Computer Communications, Elsevier. The issue focuses on sustainability metrics, carbon-aware resource management, and green computing practices for research infrastructures. Submission deadline: August 30, 2026. Submit your work →
Feb 10 Two papers accepted at CCGRID 2026. (1) Work on benchmarking and characterizing LLMs for energy-performance tradeoffs (pdf), and (2) Adaptive quantization for resource-efficient KV cache management (pdf). Congrats to Paul Malikael and Jianlong Lei 🎉
Feb 09 I’m pleased to share that two European Horizon Infra projects have been successfully funded. Congratulations to all consortium partners. ENSURE – ENvironmentally SUstainable digital services and practices for REsearch infrastructures develops sustainable solutions for European RIs and data centers (HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-TECH-01). FLUID-AI – FAIR Liquidity Unifying Interoperable Data and AI develops AI platforms and stacks for interoperable AI systems (HORIZON-INFRA-2025-01-EOSC-03).
Jan 01 The second edition of GreenSys is moving to Edinburgh, Scotland, and will again be colocated with EuroSys 26. We invite you to submit your relevant work.

May 05 Our paper on Aging aware CPU Core Management for Embodied Carbon Amortization in Cloud LLM Inference is accepted at ACM e-Energy 2025. Arxiv link
May 02 Our paper on Decentralized and Self-Adaptive Monitoring of Edge Environments is accepted at ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS) journal, 2025. (to appear). Arxiv link
Feb 18 Our paper GREEN-CODE: Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Large Language Models (LLMs) for Code Generation is accepted at CCGRID 2025. Arxiv link
Jan 01 I am organising GreenSys workshop colocated with EuroSys in Rotterdam: Workshop on Systems and Methods for Sustainable Large-Scale AI, 2025

Dec 06 I have been invited to join the Technical Program Committee for HPDC 2025, taking place in Notre Dame, IN, USA. Please consider submitting your papers!
Oct 01 Statrted new position at University of Amsterdam (UvA) as an assistant professor!
Sep 25 Our paper ABBA-VSM: Time Series Classification using Symbolic Representation on the Edge is accepted at ICSOC 24. Congrats to Meerzhan .
Jun 15 I will be working as a visiting research scientist (Jun 2024- Aug 2024) at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure team, York Town Heights, New York, USA.
Mar 01 Our paper FLIGAN: Enhancing Federated Learning with Incomplete Data Using GAN is accepted at EdgeSys 24, colocated with EuroSys 24. Congratulations to Paul . Arxiv link

Dec 07 Our paper A Data-driven Analysis of a Cloud Data Center: Statistical Characterization of Workload, Energy and Temperature has recieved Best paper award @ ACM/IEEE UCC 23.
Oct 15 I will be working as a visiting researcher (Oct 2023- Dec 2023) at INRIA, STACK team, hosted by Daniel Balouek @IMT Atlantique, Nantes, France.
Sep 26 Our paper on A Self-adaptive Energy-aware Appraoch for Edge-AI Application Management has been accepted @ASE 23. Please find the paper here
May 15 I visited CLOUDS lab @UniMelb and DisNet lab @Monash Univeristy, Australia and presented our recent work on edge monitoring and symbolic representation of data.

Dec 08 I presented our work on “Decentralized Edge Monitroing” at UCC conference, Vancouver, Washington, USA. Please check out the paper here.
Sep 26 I attended IC2E 2022 conference, Pacific Grove, California, USA.

Oct 20 My PhD thesis awarded Outstanding PhD Thesis Award by IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (IEEE TCCLD). Citation reads as “For outstanding research on machine learning-based energy and thermal efficient management of Cloud Data Centres”. For more details, please browse here.

May 20 Our paper on data-driven GPU frequency scaling has recieved Best paper award @ ACM/IEEE CCGRID 20.