Serverless Computing across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
Serverless Computing across Edge-to-Cloud Continuum
During the past decade, human beings experienced the prevalence of communication through various digital devices. While we can call the past decade as “communication everywhere”, the current decade can be called “computing everywhere”. Such a ubiquitous computing appears in a spectrum of distributed computing systems, from IoT and Edge devices to Fog and Cloud systems. It is the cooperation of these systems across the spectrum that will empower machine intelligence. Envisioning this paradigm shift, my research mission is to devise platforms that combine the computing ability of the Edge-to-Cloud systems with smart software solutions to enable an intelligent world that can positively impact the citizens’ lives. Accordingly, my research activities will encompass two thrusts, namely domain-specific serverless Cloud systems, and Edge-to-Cloud systems for AI applications. The former is envisaged to be the cornerstone of the next generation of cloud computing systems that alleviates the burden of cloud programming via offering high-level programming abstractions and hiding the complexity of working across the Edge-to-Cloud continuum. The latter focuses on the usability and robustness aspects, and we devise systems across edge-to-cloud continuum to host AI-based applications. In particular, SmartSight is our NSF-funded project that aims at enabling robust ambient perception for blind and visually impaired people (VIP) across edge-to-cloud. In the future, my research plan is to facilitate Edge-to-Cloud systems and enable human-like cognition, in actions such as “concurrent perception”, “concentration”, and “progressive perception”.
About the speaker
Associate Professor, University of Louisiana Lafayette
Dr. Mohsen Amini Salehi is an Associate Professor and Francis Patrick Clark/BORSF Endowed Professorship holder at the School of Computing and Informatics, University of Louisiana Lafayette. He is the director of High Performance and Cloud Computing (HPCC) Laboratory. Dr. Amini is an NSF CAREER Awardee and, so far, he has had 6 projects funded by NSF and Board of Regents of Louisiana (totaling $2.7 M). His paper was nominated for the “Best Paper Award” in 33rd International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’19). He has received his Ph.D. from Melbourne University, in 2012, under supervision of Dr. Buyya.
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