Welcome to the PACE Lab at Stony Brook University! Check out the gallery to see what we are up to.
Our research group is broadly interested in performance analysis and modeling of computer systems.
Our current research focuses on performance issues, such as interference and resource management, in cloud computing.
Check out our publications to learn more about our work.
Our research is supported by grants from NSF, Google, IBM, OpenInfra Labs, Azure, and AWS.
News
November 2022: Ubaid successfully defended his thesis! Congrats, Dr. Hafeez!
November 2022: Anshul gave a colloquium talk about our lab's serverless computing performance management work at Penn State.
October 2022: Ubaid's early work on GPU sharing for DNN workloads will appear as a poster at SOCC 2022. Congrats, Ubaid!
September 2022: Anshul gave invited talks about our lab's performance modeling and resource management works at TU-Berlin and INRIA, Grenoble.
August 2022: Our joint work with the NetSys lab on analyzing BBR's performance on mobile devices is accepted to IMC 2022. Congrats to Santiago!
August 2022: Gagan's theoretical work on truncating Markov chains with probability guarantees is accepted to MASCOTS 2022. Congratulations to Gagan!
August 2022: Excited to announce that the multi-institution effort led by Anshul on sustainable data centers was awarded an NSF Large grant. Thanks NSF!
August 2022: Our collaborative project with PiCASSo Lab on video analytics systems received an OVPR Seed Grant Award. Thanks, SBU!
July 2022: Gagan's work on configuration tuning of microservices is accepted to ACSOS 2022. Congratulations to Gagan!
June 2022: Our collaborative work on sustainability metrics in data centers is accepted to HotCarbon 2022!
April 2022: Pramodh's work on near-data processing for Spark is accepted to ICDCS 2022. Congratulations to Pramodh!
March 2022: Gagan's work on using GNNs to detect bottlenecks in microservices applications is accepted to the WIP track of ICPE 2022. Congratulations to Gagan!
August 2021: Amogha's work on opportunistic execution of serverless functions in the cloud is accepted to SOCC 2021. Congratulations to Amogha!
May 2021: Thank you to OpenInfra Labs for supporting our research!
May 2021: Ubaid's work on placement and scheduling of TensorFlow operations is accepted to Middleware 2021. Congratulations to Ubaid and Xiao!
May 2021: NSF funds our multi-tier cache modeling work. Thanks NSF!
March 2021: Our preliminary work on optimizing the configuration of microservices applications is accepted to the EuroMLSys 2021 workshop. Congrats to Gagan!
January 2021: Our joint work with the NetSys lab on DASH video performance under BBR is accepted to WWW 2021. Congrats to Santiago and Rebecca!
August 2020: One paper accepted to IISWC 2020. Congrats, Ubaid!
June 2020: Two papers accepted to ACSOS 2020. Congratulations to Amogha, Wajahat, and Gagan!
May 2020: Wajahat's paper on storage workload modeling accepted to appear in the Performance Evaluation journal. Congrats, Wajahat!
February 2020: Yi successfully defended his thesis! Dr. Cao is PACE Lab's second Ph.D. graduate, congrats, Yi!
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December 2019: We were awarded the Department of Computer Science
Research Excellence Award for 2017-19!
November 2019: Amogha and I will present a tutorial on leveraging queueing theory to improve application latency at
Middleware 2019.
October 2019: Our paper won the
Best Paper Award at
MASCOTS 2019!! Congratulations to Wajahat!
October 2019: Amogha's preliminary work on serverless scheduling is accepted to
Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC). Congrats, Amogha!
September 2019: Ahmad's interference-aware load balancing work is accepted to
IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Congrats, Ahmad!
September 2019: Ahmad, Amogha, and Wajahat's black-box cloud resource management work is accepted to
SOCC 2019. Congrats, Ahmad, Amogha, and Wajahat!
August 2019:
NSF funds our
network performance modeling work. Thanks NSF!
July 2019: Ubaid's collaborative work with IBM will appear at
ICSOC 2019. Congrats, Ubaid!
July 2019: Yi's works on TCP modeling and BBR empirical analysis are accepted to
IMC 2019. Congrats, Yi!
July 2019: Wajahat's storage trace analysis work is accepted to
MASCOTS 2019. Congrats, Wajahat!
July 2019: Scott's work on Markovian analysis of interference-prone cloud VMs is accepted to
MASCOTS 2019. Congrats, Scott and Amogha!
July 2019: Ahmad successfully defended his thesis! Dr. Javadi is PACE Lab's first Ph.D. graduate, congrats, Ahmad!
June 2019: Gagan's work on truncating Markov chains with probability guarantees is accepted to
MAMA 2019. Congrats, Gagan!
May 2019: Anshul receives the 2019
Sigmetrics Rising Star Award!
April 2019: AWS awards us credits for our serverless project as part of the
AWS Cloud Credits for Research program. Thanks, AWS!
April 2019: Our collaborative work with IBM on leveraging GPUs to accelerate data analytics applications is accepted at
ICAC 2019!
January 2019: Amogha's work on variability reduction is accepted (as full paper with oral presentation) at
WWW 2019. Congrats, Amogha!
January 2019: Our work on load balancing is accepted at
SOSR 2019; a preliminary version appeared as a poster at
NSDI 2019. Congrats, Vasu!
November 2018: The SBU OVPR funds our work on building analytical models for modern storage systems. Thanks, SBU!
September 2018: Ahmad is awarded a student travel grant to attend SOCC 2018. Congrats, Ahmad!
September 2018: Our work on improving cloud resource usage will appear as a poster at
SOCC 2018. Congrats, Ahmad and Wajahat!
July 2018: Our ElMem work won the
Best Student Paper Award at
ICDCS 2018! Congratulations, Ubaid and Wajahat!!
June 2018: Wajahat's collaborative work with AT&T will appear as a short paper at
MASCOTS 2018. Congrats Wajahat!
June 2018: Ubaid is awarded a student travel grant to attend ICDCS 2018. Congrats, Ubaid!
April 2018: Ahmad's Pinot assignment strategy work will appear as a short paper at
ICDCS 2018. Congrats Ahmad, Harsh, Robin, and Shweta!
March 2018: Ubaid and Wajahat's Memcached scaling work is accepted to
ICDCS 2018. Congrats guys!
January 2018: NSF funds our cloud computing performance management work via the
NSF Career Award!
November 2017: Our work on cloud autoscaling (with IBM Research) will appear in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
November 2017: Deepthi and Sharath are awarded student travel grants to attend Middleware 2017. Congrats!
October 2017: Two posters from PACE Lab will be presented at Middleware 2017. Congrats Ahmad, Vaishali, Piyush, Rasmhmi, Mitesh, and Ubaid, Wajahat, Deepthi, Sharath.
October 2017: Wajahat's MLscale work will appear in the Sustainable Computing journal. Congrats Wajahat!
August 2017: Amogha is awarded a student travel grant to attend SoCC '17. Congrats Amogha!
August 2017: Wajahat's memcache benchmarking work is accepted to IGSC 2017. Congrats Wajahat, Abhinav, and Salman!
July 2017: NSF funds our prediction error modeling work. Thanks NSF!
June 2017: Yi is awarded a student grant to attend SIGCOMM '17. Congrats Yi!
June 2017: Yi's network throughput modeling work is accepted as a poster at SIGCOMM 2017. Congrats Yi!
June 2017: Wajahat is awarded a student grant to attend USENIX ATC '17. Congrats Wajahat!
June 2017: The interference modeling work led by Scott is accepted to MASCOTS 2017. Congrats Scott and Ahmad!
June 2017: NSF funds our sustainable computing infrastructure work, led by Rutgers. Thanks NSF!
May 2017: Yi is awarded a student travel grant to attend Sigmertics '17. Congrats Yi!
April 2017: Ahmad's interference-aware load balancing work is accepted to ICAC 2017. Congrats Ahmad!
January 2017: Yi's work on modeling mobile web energy is accepted to Sigmetrics 2017. Congrats Yi!
September 2016: Microsoft Azure funds our cloud autoscaling work. Thanks Azure!
September 2016: NSF funds our heterogeneity-aware load balancing work. Thanks NSF!
August 2016: Ahmad's work on interference-aware load balancing is accepted as a poster to SOCC 2016. Congrats Ahmad!
July 2016: Wajahat's work on ML-based autoscaling is accepted to IGSC 2016. Congrats Wajahat!
June 2016: Shachee is awarded a GHC Scholarship to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. Congrats!
May 2016: Ahmad is awarded a student grant to attend USENIX ATC '16. Congrats Ahmad!
May 2016: NSF funds our elastic memory caching tiers work. Thanks NSF!
May 2016: Wajahat will intern at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center again this summer.
April 2016: Yi presents our mobile performance modeling work at the AT&T Research Academic Summit.
February 2016: One paper and one poster accepted at Sigmetrics 2016. Congrats to Yi and Javad for the poster!
February 2016: Google funds our mobile performance modeling work. Thanks Google!
December 2015: Two papers accepted at IC2E 2016. Congrats to Ahmad, Bharath, Sagar, and Sidhartha!
July 2015: One paper accepted at ICCAC 2015. Congrats to Harsha!
May 2015: One paper accepted at MASCOTS 2015. Congrats to Xi and Naman!
May 2015: One poster accepted at ICAC 2015. Congrats Sidhartha!
April 2015: One paper and one poster accepted at the Distributed Cloud Computing workshop at Sigmetrics 2015. Congrats to Justin, Naman, and Xi!
March 2015: IBM funds our cloud autoscaling work. Thanks IBM!
March 2015: NSF funds our cloud performance modeling work. Thanks NSF!
Gallery
Anurag presenting our multiple bottleneck detection work at WWW 2024
May 2024 (Singapore)
Deb presenting his power modeling work at HotCloudPerf 2024
May 2024 (London, UK)
Gagan presenting OPPerTune at NSDI 2024
April 2024 (Santa Clara, CA)
Celebrating Gagan's Ph.D. defense!
December 2023 (Beenz Indian Grill, Long Island)
End-of-semester group lunch
December 2023 (Del Fuego, Long Island)
PACE Lab @ MASCOTS '23
October 2023 (Old Field Club, Long Island)
Doctoral Hooding ceremony with Ubaid and Gagan
May 2023 (Stony Brook University)
Gagan presenting his work at ICPE 2023
April 2023 (Coimbra, Portugal)
Congratulations to Dr. Santiago Vargas!
November 2022 (Stony Brook University)
Celebrating Ubaid's Ph.D. defense!
November 2022 (Clay Oven, Long Island)
Pramodh presenting his work at ICDCS 2022
July 2022 (Bologna, Italy)
Celebrating Ubaid's Ph.D. prelim defense!
March 2022 (O Sole Mio, Long Island)
Celebrating Yi's Ph.D. graduation!
March 2020 (Eastern Pavillion, Long Island)
Received the CS@SBU Research Excellence Award
December 2019 (Stony Brook University)
Amogha presenting his work at WOSC 2019
December 2019 (Davis, CA)
Ahmad remotely presenting his work at SOCC 2019
November 2019 (Santa Cruz, CA)
Amogha & Wajahat with their poster at SOCC 2019
November 2019 (Santa Cruz, CA)
Receiving the Mascots '19 Best Paper Award
October 2019 (Rennes, France)
Yi presenting his work at IMC 2019
October 2019 (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Scott presenting his work at Mascots 2019
October 2019 (Rennes, France)
Wajahat presenting his work at Mascots 2019
October 2019 (Rennes, France)
Celebrating Ahmad's Ph.D. graduation!
July 2019 (Istanbul Cafe, Long Island)
Congratulations to Dr. Javadi!
July 2019 (Stony Brook University)
Giving the Sigmetrics 2019 Rising Star Award talk
June 2019 (Phoenix, AZ)
Receiving the Sigmetrics 2019 Rising Star Award
June 2019 (Phoenix, AZ)
Hooding PACE Lab's first graduating Ph.D., Ahmad!
May 2019 (Stony Brook University)
Amogha presenting his work at WWW 2019
May 2019 (San Francisco, CA)
End-of-semester group lunch
March 2019, a bit delayed (Del Fuego, Long Island)
Receiving the ICDCS '18 Best Student Paper Award
July 2018 (Vienna, Austria)
Ubaid presenting the ICDCS '18 Best Student Paper
July 2018 (Vienna, Austria)
End-of-semester group lunch
January 2018 (Raan Thai, Long Island)
Closing remarks @ Middleware '17
December 2017 (UNLV, Las Vegas)
Wajahat & Sharath with their Middleware '17 poster
December 2017 (UNLV, Las Vegas)
Ahmad presenting his Middleware '17 poster
December 2017 (UNLV, Las Vegas)
Wajahat, Deepthi, Sharath, and their MW '17 poster
December 2017 (UNLV, Las Vegas)
Ahmad presenting our DIAL work @ ICAC '17
July 2017 (Columbus, OH)
PACE Lab and friends @ Sigmetrics '17
June 2017 (UIUC)
Yi presenting our RECON work @ Sigmetrics '17
June 2017 (UIUC)
End-of-semester group dinner
May 2017 (Setauket Pita House, Long Island)
End-of-semester group lunch
December 2016 (Cheesecake Factory, Long Island)
Lab group photo
April 2016 (SBU, Long Island)
