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.
• Michela Taufer (UTK) and Chandra Krintz contribute an article on energy efficient AI in Inside AI News, Oct 2024
• RACELab featured in UCSB Current April 2025! (and in the SB Independent!)
• RACELab featured in CS's Summer 2024 News Letter (pg 5)
• SmartFarm featured in
  • UC ANR Lindcove REC Spotlight
  • an invited talk at Digicrop
  • an Video Podcast for the AIGuide: A.I on Society
  • a Babbage Podcast of the Economist
• UC NRS article features WTB!

Research

Interests/Areas: Digital and precision agriculture; AI systems for the Internet of Things (IoT); programming systems; cloud computing and services; distributed edge computing; energy efficient computing.

A complete publication list can be found here. Examples:

• UCSB SmartFarm -- and other IoT/AI applications...
  Hybrid Edge Cloud System and Sensor Network for Simplifying and Automating Energy Efficient Systems, Digital Agriculture, and Consrvation Science (including Where's The Bear (WTB)) [CUPS 2023] [IEEE SmartAGR23] [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
  [IEEE FMEC24] [IEEE CLOUD24] [ACM CF24] [IEEE SESAME23] [IEEE IC2E23] [IEEE CloudCom23] [IEEE TPDS] [Bench22] [IOTSMS22] [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]

Teaching and Service (past 3 years)

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

• F20-W21 CS595J/BREN595AL Research Seminar: Data-Driven Food Systems
  
• CS148 -- Computer Science Project (TBD) Syllabus
• CS263 -- Runtime Systems (F25) Syllabus
• CS189AB -- Computer Science Undergraduate Capstone (F25 - CS189A, W26 - CS189B)
• CS190B -- IoT Systems (F23) Syllabus

Service (past 3 years):

• 2024-Present: Member Editorial Board, Digital Agriculture Journal; Pivot Science Publications
• 2023-24: Chair of the UCSB Graduate Council (+ member of the UCSB Executive Council, and UC-wide CCGA)
• 2022 Program Co-Chair (with Dave Bermbach) of IEEE IC2E 2022
• 2021-25: Member -- CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council
• 2021-2023: Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board -- AIFarms AI Institute
• 2022-2023: Vice Chair of the UCSB Graduate Council
• 2021-2023: Members of the Scientific Advisory Board -- IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center
• 2021-2024: Member of the UCSB Graduate Council
• 2021-24: Member of the IEEE IC2E Steering Committee
• 2019-23: Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs, CS Dept. UCSB

Awards and Recognition (past 3 years)

• RACELab's massive raspberry pi cluster (Oracle Gift!) featured in the UCSB Current (Apr 2025)
• 2025 NSF funds our 3-year project on Distributed Dataflow for the Internet of Things!
• 2025 Co-led a panel on energy efficient computing selected as a scientific session at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2025. Computing is Eating the World: Will Saving the Planet Destroy It?
• 2024 Interview on Energy Efficient AI with Michela Taufer (UTK) for Inside AI News, Oct 2024
• 2024 DOE funds UCSB/BNL/UNL/UND collaboration on Coupling Sensor Networks and HPC Facilities with Advanced Wireless Networks for Near-Real-Time Simulation of Digital Agriculture!
• 2024 Honored to be featured as the Cal-Bridge Spotlight!!
• 2024 - Invited to give keynote at the IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT)!
• 2024 - Invited to speak at the Vineyard Team's Ag Expo
• 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