Speakers
Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Date: 24 September 2021
Time: 1:00PM- 2:00PM (US Eastern Time)
Title of the Talk: When Climate Meets Machine Learning: Edge to Cloud ML Energy Efficiency
Diana Marculescu is Department Chair, Cockrell Family Chair for Engineering Leadership #5, and Professor, Motorola Regents Chair in Electrical and Computer Engineering #2, at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to joining UT Austin in December 2019, she was the David Edward Schramm Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, the Founding Director of the College of Engineering Center for Faculty Success (2015-2019) and has served as Associate Department Head for Academic Affairs in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2014-2018), all at Carnegie Mellon University. She received the Dipl.Ing. degree in computer science from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania (1991), and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (1998). Her research interests include energy- and reliability-aware computing, hardware aware machine learning, and computing for sustainability and natural science applications. Diana is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Career Award (2000-2004), the ACM SIGDA Technical Leadership Award (2003), the Carnegie Institute of Technology George Tallman Ladd Research Award (2004), and several best paper awards. She was an IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2004-2005) and the Chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Design Automation (2005-2009). Diana chaired several conferences and symposia in her area and is currently an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Systems. She was selected as an ELATE Fellow (2013-2014), and is the recipient of an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2013-2017), the Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award (2014), and the Barbara Lazarus Award from Carnegie Mellon University (2018). Diana is a Fellow of both ACM and IEEE.
Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Date: 22 October 2021
Time: 2:00PM- 3:00PM (US Eastern Time)
Title of the Talk: Information Technology in the Context of Life-Cycle and Sustainability Assessment
Arpad Horvath is the L. E. Peirano Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, Head of the Energy, Civil Infrastructure and Climate Graduate Program, Member of the Engineering and Project Management Graduate Program, Director of the Transportation Sustainability Research Center, and Director of the Engineering and Business for Sustainability Certificate Program.
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Research: Infrastructure and Sustainability and Co-Chair of the Environmental Research 2021 Conference, and was the Chair of the 2nd Food-Energy-Water Nexus Conference.
His research focuses on life-cycle environmental and economic assessment of products, processes, and services, particularly answering important questions posed about civil infrastructure systems and the built environment. In particular, he has conducted studies on transportation systems, water and wastewater systems, buildings, concrete and other construction materials, pavements, and biofuels.
Professor Horvath was a member of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Science Advisory Board (Environmental Engineering Committee) between 2010 and 2015 and a member of the Science Advisory Board’s Scientific and Technological Achievement Awards Committee between 2011 and 2016.
The environmental implications of information technology have commanded the heightened attention of all interested parties – industry, regulatory agencies, researchers, consumers – throughout the history of IT development and especially since the early days of systematic environmental assessment.
Some questions and themes have frequently recurred, others have emerged with the splash of novelty. Yet many fundamental and extremely important questions surrounding the life cycles and supply chains of IT equipment and their tremendous potential for societal change have gone unexplored.
This presentation will summarize the past and present focus areas and efforts and point out the analytical frameworks we need to adopt to make the life-cycle and sustainability assessments of IT relevant, fair, and informative.
Distinguished Hardware Engineer
Google
Date: 28 October 2021
Time: 2:00PM- 3:00PM (US Eastern Time)
Title of the Talk: Domain-specific Accelerators for Sustainable Machine Learning
Norman P. Jouppi is a Distinguished Hardware Engineer at Google. Norm received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University in 1984. He has been the principal architect and lead designer of several microprocessors, and is the lead architect of Google’s TPU systems. He holds more than 125 U.S. patents, and has published over 125 technical papers. He is a recipient of the IEEE Harry H. Goode Award and the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchly Award. He is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
IBM Fellow
IBM
Date: 4 November 2021
Time: 12:00PM- 1:00PM (US Eastern Time)
Title of the Talk: Carbon Footprint Quantification and Reduction in Cloud Environment
Dr. Tamar Eilam is an IBM Fellow working in the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. Tamar has been leading R&D projects in the area of cloud computing for over twenty years. In 2019 she transitioned to focus on Climate Research focusing specifically on applying optimization and AI techniques to quantify and reduce carbon emission associated with data centers and enterprises. Tamar holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
It is claimed that cloud computing holds a promise to reduce the overall carbon footprint associated with the ICT sector.
In this talk I will discuss the specific challenges and opportunities that arise in cloud environments with respect to carbon footprint quantification and reduction.
In particular, I will discuss the challenges that arise due to the multi-tenant nature of cloud environments, and the lack of transparency. I will also discuss opportunities for carbon efficiencies that emerging cloud programming models introduce. Lastly, I will present the principles and implementation of one of our key contributions in this area: an approach and an engine designed to quantify carbon footprint in cloud environments.
Director of Supply Chain Sustainability
Intel Corporation
Date: 18 November 2021
Time: 1:00PM- 2:00PM (US Eastern Time)
Title of the Talk: Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility of technology sourcing represent challenges and impact opportunities across the value chain
Adam Schafer is the Director of Supply Chain Responsibility within Intel’s Global Supply Chain organization, responsible for Supply Chain ESG and Chemical Compliance. Within this role, Adam oversees Intel’s Supply Line Sustainability, Supplier Code of Conduct, Human Rights/ Labor policies, Chemical Regulations and Policy, Green material selections, Responsible Minerals, and Supplier Diversity & Inclusion programs.
Adam joined Intel in 2001 as a process engineer in research and development, then moved to supply chain management in 2005. In 2017, he shifted from yield and metrology equipment to Supply Chain Responsibility.
Adam received his B.S. in Chemistry & Philosophy from SUNY Oswego in 1994, and his M.S. & Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of Washington in 2000. He and his family live in Portland, Oregon.
Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility of technology sourcing represent challenges and impact opportunities across the value chain. What it takes to bring computing power and all that it promises in to the hands of businesses and consumers leaves an environmental and human trace around the world.
I will talk about the pillars of Supply Chain Responsibility for Intel, as a large direct manufacturer and component supplier to the world’s technology demand. The focus will be the pillars of our sustainability programs covering: Environmental Impact, Human Rights, Responsible Mineral Sourcing, Supplier Diversity and Inclusion, and Sustainable Chemistry Stewardship.
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