David Irwin | Electrical and Computer Engineering

Associate Professor

Office: Knowles 211D

Mailing Address:
211D Knowles Engineering Bldg
University of Massachusetts
151 Holdsworth Way
Amherst, MA 01003-9284

irwin@ecs.umass.edu

(413) 545-5822

Personal Academic Website

Full Curriculum Vitae

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Education

B.S. Vanderbilt University, 2001
M.S. Duke University, 2005
Ph.D. Duke University, 2007

Research

Experimental computer systems design with an emphasis on sustainability, including operating systems and virtualization, distributed systems and networking, and cloud computing.

Research Area:

Networked Systems

Publications

"Empirical Characterization, Modeling, and Analysis of Smart Meter Data," IEEE Journal of Selected Areas of Communications (JSAC, Smart Grid Communications Series, 32(7), July 2014.
"Yank: Enabling Green Data Centers to Pull the Plug," In Proceedings of the Tenth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Lombard, Illinois, April 2013.
"Smart Cap: Flattening Peak Electricity Demand in Smart Homes," In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Lugano, Switzerland, March 2012.
"Blink: Managing Server Clusters on Intermittent Power," In Proceedings to the Sixteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2011.
"Cloudy Computing: Leveraging Weather Forecasts in Energy Harvesting Sensor Systems," In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), Boston, Massachusetts, June 2010.

Honors

2013 NSF CAREER Award

2012 IEEE Sustainable Computing Register's Pick of the Month (June)

Best Paper Awards:

2013 e-Energy Best Paper Award Runner-up

2012 PerCom Best Papers session

2012 HPDC '03 paper selected as one of 20 best papers in 20 years of HPDC

2011 GreenNets Best Paper Award

Society Memberships:

IEEE, ACM

Links

CV:

IrwinCV.pdf

Homepage:

http://www.ecs.umass.edu/~irwin

Lab Affiliation:

Sustainable Computing Lab

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