Abel Souza

Assistant Professor, UC Santa Cruz.

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Baskin School of Engineering

606 Engineering Loop, RM 237B (E2)

Santa Cruz, CA 95064

Hello and welcome! I am Abel Souza, an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at UC Santa Cruz.

My research centers on expanding the understanding of computing systems, from small embedded devices to large scale data centers, encompassing resource planning and the deployment of optimal strategies for distributed and data-intensive systems that support AI, Machine Learning, and web workloads. Recently, my work has expanded into sustainable, carbon-aware approaches to designing and managing cloud data centers and cyber physical systems, with the goal of achieving zero-carbon operations.

A key theme in my research explores the efficient application of predictive analytics methods to process and model vast amounts of data, tailoring resource management holistically to applications. This involves determining the optimal quantity and type of resources to allocate, as well as the most effective deployment times and locations.

Prior to joining UCSC, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a PhD student in the Department of Computing Science at Umeå University (Sweden). At UMass, I worked with Prof. Prashant Shenoy in the Laboratory for Advanced System Software. At UmU, I worked in the Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab. under the guidance of Dr. Johan Tordsson and Prof. Erik Elmroth.

I am seeking PhD, master’s, and undergraduate students to supervise and collaborate with. If you’re interested in working in Cloud, Distributed, and/or Sustainable computing, please feel free to reach out via email.

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    EuroSys
    On the Limitations of Carbon-Aware Temporal and Spatial Workload Shifting in the Cloud
    Thanathorn Sukprasert, Abel Souza, Noman Bashir, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    In Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys), 2024
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    SoCC
    Enabling sustainable clouds: The case for virtualizing the energy system
    Noman Bashir, Tian Guo, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, Ramesh Sitaraman, Abel Souza, and Adam Wierman
    In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2021
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    ASPLOS
    Ecovisor: A virtual energy system for carbon-efficient applications
    Abel Souza, Noman Bashir, Jorge Murillo, Walid Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, David Irwin, and Prashant Shenoy
    In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 2, 2023