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The Sustainable Compute & AI Infrastructure (SCAI) Research Symposium will take place at UMass Amherst on September 17–18, 2026, bringing together researchers and leaders from academia, industry, government, and utilities to explore sustainable AI infrastructure through talks, panels, and poster sessions. See the symposium website for the agenda and speaker lineup.

Congratulations to Lingdong Wang on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation!

Congratulations to Ali Zeynali on successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation and joining Databricks as an AI Software Engineer!

Congratulations to Xuchuang Wang on joining the Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University as an Assistant Professor!

We’ve launched Research in the AI Era, a new seminar series on how AI is reshaping the research lifecycle across computer science—see details and the schedule at here.

The SOLAR Lab has received a new NSF grant to advance the theory and applications of corruption-robust online optimization.

The SOLAR Lab has received a new NSF grant on cooperative learning in heterogeneous edge networks.

Our vision paper on Toward Environmentally Equitable AI, is published in the July 2025 issue of Communications of the ACM.

Congratulations to Xutong Liu for having his paper selected as a best paper runner-up at ACM Sigmetrics 2025!

Mohammad will serve as a Program Committee Chair for the ACM e-Energy 2026 conference, which is part of the inaugural ACM Sustainability Week, to be held at the Banff Centre in Banff National Park, Canada, from June 22 to 25, 2026.

Our vision paper, titled A Vision for Computational Decarbonization of Societal Infrastructure, presenting our NSF Expeditions CoDec project is now published in IEEE Internet Computing.

Congrats to Cooper Sigrist for receiving Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowship Award from CICS!

Congratulations to Russell Lee for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation on “Learning-Augmented Online Algorithms for Energy Optimization.”

Xutong Liu joined CMU as a postdoc in Fall 2024. Congrats Xutong!

Mohammad gave an invited talk at Data-Driven Decision Processes: From Theory to Practice at TTIC.

Jinhang Zuo will join the Department of Computer Science at City University of Hong Kong as a tenure-track assistant professor in Fall 2024. Congrats Jinhang!

The SOLAR Lab will be leading the theoretical and AI foundations of an NSF Expeditions in Computing project titled “Computational Decarbonization of Societal Infrastructures at Mesoscales.”

Congratulations to Ali Zeynali for successfully passing his Ph.D. thesis proposal on “Online Sequential Decision Making for Resource Allocation.”

Congratulations to Lingdong Wang for successfully passing his Ph.D. thesis proposal on “Deep Learning for Immersive Media Delivery.”

We are co-organizing the second workshop on Learning-augmented Algorithms: Theory and Applications (LATA) at SIGMETRICS 2024.

Congrats to Lingdong Wang for receiving Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowship Award from CICS!

Congrats to Ali Zeynali for receiving Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowship Award from CICS!

Congratulations to Roozbeh Bostandoost for having his first paper selected as a best paper candidate at ACM e-Energy 2023!

We are organizing a workshop on Learning-augmented Algorithms: Theory and Applications (LATA) at SIGMETRICS 2023.

Congrats to Adam Lechowicz for being awarded US Department of Energy Computational Science Graduate Fellowship!

Mohammad will deliver an invited talk at The Workshop on Teaching Performance Analysis of Computer Systems (TeaPACS) at SIGMETRICS 2023.

Congrats to Mahsa Sahebdel for receiving Common Good Fellowship from CICS!

Congrats to Russell Lee for receiving Thesis Proposal Writing Fellowship Award from CICS!

Congrats to Mohammad Hajiesmaili for being named one of Popular Science’s Brilliant 10.

Together with Ramesh Sitaraman, we received an Amazon Research Award.

We have received NSF CAREER Award to work on data-driven carbon-intelligent computing systems.