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Paul Townend

Head of Green Distributed Computing group, Scientific Coordinator for Horizon Europe COGNIT, Co-PI to WASP WARA-Ops, Research Leader in ADSLab, member of WASP Graduate School Management.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

E-mail
paul.townend@umu.se
Phone
+46 90 786 61 38

Works as

Affiliation
Associate professor at Department of Computing Science
Location
MIT-huset, Umeå universitet, MIT.C.229 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Head of the Green Distributed Computing group, I'm interested in using AI and Data Science to develop intelligent resource management mechanisms for low-carbon distributed systems, with a current focus on Edge-Cloud! See my personal website.

I am Scientific Coordinator of the Horizon Europe COGNIT project, Co-Manager and Scientific Advisor of the WASP WARA-Ops research area, and a member of the WASP Graduate School Management team. I am also a Research Leader within the Autonomous Distributed Systems lab and a member of the Department’s Committee for Research (CORE).

I supervise 4 PhD students and 2 post-docs, and I coordinate and teach the Level 5 Cloud Computing course. My Google Scholar information is here.

Towards adaptive rule replacement for mitigating inference attacks in serverless SDN framework
Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2025, NOMS 2025, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2025 : 1-7
Mudgal, Ankur; Singh, Munesh; Verma, Abhishek; et al.
GraphOpticon: a global proactive horizontal autoscaler for improved service performance & resource consumption
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier 2025, Vol. 174
Theodoropoulos, Theodoros; Patel, Yashwant Singh; Zdun, Uwe; et al.
Cooperative and connected mobility services in the cloud-edge continuum with function as a service technology and AI-enabled orchestration
Proceedings of 2024 1st Edition of the Mediterranean Smart Cities Conference, MSCC 2024, IEEE 2024 : 1-6
Lalaguna, Antonio; Townend, Paul; Ojaghi, Behnam; et al.
A stable matching approach to energy efficient and sustainable serverless scheduling for the green cloud continuum
Proceedings: 18th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, SOSE 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2024 : 25-35
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul
Modeling the green cloud continuum: integrating energy considerations into cloud-edge models
Cluster Computing, Springer 2024, Vol. 27, (4) : 4095-4125
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul; Singh, Anil; et al.
Automated hyperparameter tuning for adaptive cloud workload prediction
UCC '23: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
Formal models for the energy-aware cloud-edge computing continuum: analysis and challenges
2023 IEEE international conference on service-oriented system engineering (SOSE): proceedings, IEEE 2023 : 48-59
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul; Östberg, Per-Olov
COGNIT: challenges and vision for a serverless and multi-provider cognitive cloud-edge continuum
2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE), IEEE 2023 : 12-22
Townend, Paul; Martí, Alberto P.; De La Iglesia, Idoia; et al.
When and How to Retrain Machine Learning-based Cloud Management Systems
2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), IEEE 2022 : 688-698
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
Service mesh and eBPF-powered microservices: a survey and future directions
2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), IEEE 2022 : 176-184
Saleh Sedghpour, Mohammad Reza; Townend, Paul
The 6G Computing Continuum (6GCC): Meeting the 6G computing challenges
2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking, 6GNet 2022
Tarneberg, William; Fitzgerald, Emma; Bhuyan, Monowar H.; et al.
Welcome message from the general chairs of IEEE JCC 2022
Proceedings: 2022 IEEE 13th International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing, IEEE Computer Society 2022 : VIII-VIII
Townend, Paul; Wo, Tianyu
Efficient retraining of machine learning algorithms in cloud management systems
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
A hybrid autoencoder-LSTM framework for efficient workload prediction
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
A data-driven framework for efficient and automated workload prediction in cloud computing
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
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Research groups

Research leaders
Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab
Head of research
Green Distributed Computing Group

Research projects

24 January 2024 until 31 December 2027
Energy-Aware Autonomous Management for Cloud-Edge Infrastructures
1 December 2023 until 30 April 2029
De facto Center of Excellence in Autonomous Distributed Systems
31 January 2023 until 31 December 2025
COGNIT: A Cognitive Serverless Framework for the Cloud-Edge Continuum
15 January 2023 until 31 December 2025
WASP WARA – Operational Data Research Arena
1 September 2021 until 1 September 2022
WARA Common Information Bridge -Enabling Research on Data-Driven Cloud Operations

I am course leader of:
Advanced Distributed Systems (5DV205)
Cloud Computing (5DV192)
Distributed Systems (5DV186).

I also supervise Masters student projects, typically related to Distributed Systems in some way.