Second Green AI Summit at Harvard and Boston University Successfully Convened
Noman Bashir is a Computing & Climate Postdoctoral Impact Fellow at the MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC). His research rethinks the design and operation of large-scale computer systems to address emerging challenges, including rapidly rising computing demand, increasing energy constraints, and unintended socio-environmental implications. His work on improving resource utilization -- deployed across all Google datacenters -- demonstrates significant real-world impact. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022. (2) Noman Bashir is the Computing & Climate Impact Fellow at the MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium (MCSC) and an affiliate of MIT CSAIL. Before joining MIT, he earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from UMass Amherst in 2022. His research focuses on decarbonizing societal infrastructure, including large-scale datacenters, distributed edge computing systems, and cyber-physical energy systems. In particular, his work has contributed significantly to enhancing the efficiency and performance of energy systems, developing equitable approaches to decarbonize various societal sectors, reducing the cost of cloud computing for end users, and improving the sustainability of computing. To learn more, visit his website at https://noman-bashir.github.io/.