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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 at

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

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
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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.