The School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) celebrated its 10th annual SEAS Student Research & Development Showcase on February 24, 2016. More than 100 SEAS students competed for $32,000 in total prize money.
Department of Electrical and Computing Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. students Sultan Alamro and Maotong Xu won First Place ($3,000) in the Theoretical Research category at the SEAS 2016 R&D Showcase for their poster titled “CRED: Cloud right-sizing to meet execution deadlines and data locality”.
The aim of their research is to focus on a very promising technique called "cloud right-sizing" for making compute clouds more cost-effective by dynamically adapting the number of active servers to match the target workload. Cloud right-sizing enables significant cost and power savings by auto-tuning the amount of active resources to handle the current workload. The work is supported by the National Science Foundation, and the students work under the supervision of Prof. Subramaniam and Prof. Lan.
In another entry Shuai Sun, a second year ECE Ph.D. student from the OPEN Lab, participated in the SEAS 2016 R&D Showcase with the presentation titled “Hybrid Photonic Plasmonic Interconnects: Low Latency Energy-and-Area-Efficiency On-Chip Interconnects” and won the 2nd place ($1,500) in the Theoretical Research category and 2nd place ($500) in the Entrepreneurship category.
His project is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and advised by his advisor Prof. Volker J. Sorger and co-advised by Prof. Tarek EI-Ghazawi and Prof. Vikram Narayana.
For information on the SEAS 2016 R&D Showcase visit SEAS’ website.