News

• Chandra co-directs the Lab for Research on Adaptive Computing Environments (RACELab) and research efforts on SmartFarm, Where's the Bear (WTB), and Next-Gen Cloud/Edge IoT Systems, with Prof. Rich Wolski.
• MSDBench: Understanding the Performance Impact of Isolation Domains on Microservice-based IoT Deployments (PDF) by Sierra Wang, F. Bakir, T. Ekaireb, J. Pearson, C. Krintz, and R. Wolski, selected for the Best Paper Award at Bench22! Congrats Sierra!
• SmartFarm featured in
  • UC ANR Lindcove REC Spotlight
  • an invited talk at Digicrop 2022
  • an Video Podcast for the AIGuide: A.I on Society
  • a Babbage Podcast of the Economist
• UC NRS article features WTB!

Research

Interests/Areas: AI systems for the Internet of Things (IoT), Programming systems, cloud computing and services, distributed systems and edge computing, embedded systems, digital agriculture and ecology. Examples:

• UCSB SmartFarm -- and other IoT/AI applications...
  Hybrid Edge Cloud System and Sensor Network for Simplifying and Automating Agriculture Analytics and Consrvation Science (including Where's The Bear (WTB)) [SCI21] [ACM SEC20] [SPESI20] [ACM SEC19] [ICIOT19] [EDGE19] [IOT18] [IOTDI17] (WTB Video) (CCC17) [DSFEW16] [SIGSpatial16] (TEDxFargo)
• Next-Generation Cloud-Edge IoT Systems
  IoT and Hybrid Cloud Computing, Edge Clouds, Adaptive Optimization, and more
  [ACM SEC21] [IC2E21_Invited] [SCI21] [IC2E21] [EDGE21] [ACM SEC20] [SPESI20] [SmartEdge20] [DEBS19] [ACM SEC19] [IEEECloud19] [IC2E19] [EDGE19] [IC2E18] [TCC18] [IEEEDataCom17] [IEEECluster17] [IEEECloud17] [WWW17] [IC2E17] [BigData16] [APM16] [SOCC15] [CloudCom15] [GCA15] [IC2E15]
• A full list of our papers can be found here.

Teaching and Service (past 3 years)

Courses: (course links only available when course is being taught)

• F20-W21 CS595J/BREN595AL Research Seminar: Sustainable Food Systems
  
• CS148 -- Computer Science Project (TBD) Syllabus
• CS263 -- Runtime Systems (F22) Syllabus
• CS189AB -- Computer Science Undergraduate Capstone (W22 - CS189B)
• CS190B -- IoT Systems (W23) Syllabus

Service:

• 2022 Program Co-Chair (with Dave Bermbach) of IEEE IC2E 2022
• 2021-Present: Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board -- AIFarms AI Institute
• 2021-Present: Members of the Scientific Advisory Board -- IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center
• 2022-Present: Vice Chair of the UCSB Graduate Council
• 2021-Present: Member of the UCSB Graduate Council
• 2021-24: Member -- CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council
• 2021-24: Member of the IEEE IC2E Steering Committee
• July 2019-Present:
  Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs, Computer Science Dept., UCSB
  UCSB Computer Science Committees: Chair - Graduate Affairs Committee; Member - Executive Committee, Member - Computer Engineering Program, Member - CS DEI Committee
• 2020-22 COE Diversity Officer for Computer Science (Grad/Undergrad)
• 2020-21 Member of the Edible Campus Program Advisory Board
• 2020-21 Co-Chair of Computer Science Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity (DEI) Committee
• 2018-21: Member of the College of Engineering (CoE) Faculty Executive Committee (FEC)
• 2019-Present: Area Co-Lead: Food-Energy-Water Nexus, Institute for Energy Efficiency (IEE)
• 2015-Present: Faculty Liason for UCSB Sedgwick Reserve and member of the UCSB Natural Reserve System Committee

Awards and Recognition (past 3 years)

• 2022 Best Paper Award for MSDBench: Understanding the Performance Impact of Isolation Domains on Microservice-based IoT Deployments by S. Wang, F. Bakir, T. Ekaireb, J. Pearson, C. Krintz, and R. Wolski at Bench22
• 2022 - SmartFarm featured in UC ANR Lindcove REC Spotlight
• 2022 - Invited interview on the future of digital (IoT-based) agriculture at Policy Horizons Canada
• 2022 - Invited to give keynote at the UCSD CS Research Open House
• 2022 - Invited to present and discuss SmartFarm at Digicrop 2022
• 2021 - NSF Funds our new research on Detroit – A New End-to-end System for Practical and Accessible IoT, PIs Krintz, Kruegel, Vigna, Wolski
• 2020 UC NRS article features WTB!
• 2020 SmartFarm featured in a Babbage Podcast of the Economist
• 2020 CCC Blog from AAAS Annual Meeting: Featuring SmartFarm!