Shaolei Ren

Shaolei Ren Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Cooperating Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering University of California, Riverside

News

• I have multiple openings available for graduate students (with full financial support) and visiting scholars. Potential research projects include, but are not limited to: intelligent systems, machine learning, etc. Students can apply to the PhD program in either ECE or CSE department at UCR. Prior experiences are not required. Please contact me if you're interested.
  

• Selected papers:

  • Bandit learning with imperfect context: AAAI’21 (tba), INFOCOM’21 (tba)

  • Warehouse-scale computers

    • Security: SIGMETRICS’18, SIGMETRICS’20 (video), CCS’17, CCS’18 (video), HPCA’21

    • Power efficiency: HPCA’18, HPCA’16, HPCA’15

    • Demand response: INFOCOM’15, Performance’15, e-Energy’16

Projects

• Towards user-centric deep neural network model selection for edge/IoT devices (funded by the NSF)

• Online learning-assisted resource management in edge computing systems (funded by the NSF)

• Coordinated power management in multi-tenant colocation data centers (funded by the NSF CAREER Award)

• An integrated approach to optimizating energy management in microgrids with large computing loads (completed, funded by the NSF)

• Making cloud computing less “thirsty”! (completed, funded by the NSF)

  • Thanks to the NSF, back in 2014 when data center water footprint was then rarely discussed, we were among the very first to study software-based approaches to reducing water footprint of cloud data centers at little to no cost. Today, water sustainability has been increasingly recognized as a priority, and will only become more important as extended droughts are becoming a norm and threatening many parts of the world.

  • Some recent reports on data center water footprint

    • The Secret Cost of Google's Data Centers: Billions of Gallons of Water to Cool Servers (also by Bloomberg)

    • Enhancing Water Efficiency Through Advanced Cooling Technology (Facebook)

    • Reducing Water in AWS Data Centers

    • 10 Ways Equinix is Advancing Responsible Water Consumption

    • Microsoft's newest sustainable datacenter region coming to Arizona in 2021

    • Water positive by 2030 (Microsoft)

    • A Data Center That Guzzles Water Isn't Sustainable
      
      

Contact

Shaolei Ren
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Riverside

Office: Winston Chung Hall 319
Phone: 951-827-2260
E-mail: sren (AT) ece.ucr.edu