Mohammad Atiqul Islam Assistant Professor Computer Science and Engineering University of Texas at Arlington 500 UTA Blvd., Arlington, TX 76019 Email: mislam[AT]uta[dot]edu Office: Room 540, Engineering Research Building (ERB)

Research

My work can be broadly classified as computer systems research with ongoing projects at UTA spanning several research areas such as Cloud, Economics of Computing, Distributed Systems, High-Performance Computing, Security and Privacy, Edge Computing, Cyber-Physical Systems, IoT, and Sensors.

Please check my research page and publications for more details.

Recent News

• [07/2024]: Our paper on converged computing got accepted in IEEE CLUSTER’24

• [07/2024]: Our paper on water usage of AI got accepted in Special Issue on Sustainability of the Communications of the ACM

• [06/2024]: Our dataset of water usage efficiency received the best notes paper award in E-Energy’24

• [05/2024]: My PhD student Zahidur Rahim Talukder is recognized as a MLCommons Rising Stars Rising Star

• [05/2024]: I will serve on the Program Committee of S&P’25 (Oakland)

• [04/2024]: I will serve on the Program Committees of NDSS’25 and Micro’24

• [03/2024]: Two papers on water efficiency dataset and behind-the-meter-DER monitoring got accepted in E-Energy’24

• [10/2023]: Our paper on EMI-based data center power monitoring got accepted in SenSys’23

• [09/2023]: Our data center water sustainability project got funded by NSF CCF

• [05/2023]: My PhD student MD Rajib Hossen is recognized as a Machine Learning and Systems Rising Stars

• [05/2023]: Our paper on federated learning in mobile edge computing got accepted in IEEE EDGE’23

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Selected Publications (Full List)

• Enabling Low-Cost Server Level Power Monitoring in Data Centers Using Conducted EMI, SenSys’23. [pdf]

• Market Mechanism-Based User-in-the-Loop Scalable Power Oversubscription for HPC Systems, HPCA’23. [pdf]

• Practical Efficient Microservice Autoscaling with QoS Assurance, HPDC’22. [pdf]

• Heat Behind the Meter: A Hidden Threat of Thermal Attacks in Edge Colocation Data Centers, HPCA’21. [pdf][talk@HPCA]

• Your Noise, My Signal: Exploiting Switching Noise for Stealthy Data Exfiltration from Desktop Computers, SIGMETRICS’20. [pdf] [talk]

• Ohm’s Law in Data Centers: A Voltage Side Channel for Timing Power Attacks, CCS’18. [pdf] [talk@CCS]

• Why Some Like It Loud: Timing Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers Using an Acoustic Side Channel, SIGMETRICS’18. [pdf]

• A Spot Capacity Market to Increase Power Infrastructure Utilization in Multi-Tenant Data Centers, HPCA’18. [pdf]

• Exploiting a Thermal Side Channel for Power Attacks in Multi-Tenant Data Centers, CCS’17. [pdf] [talk@CCS]

• A Market Approach for Handling Power Emergencies in Multi-tenant Data Center, HPCA’16. [pdf]

• Paying to Save: Reducing Cost of Colocation Data Center via Rewards, HPCA’15. [pdf]

• A Contract Design Approach for Colocation Data Center Demand Response, ICCAD’15. [pdf]

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