NEW YORK(TIP): SBU Computer Science Professor Anshul Gandhi has been recently honoured with 2019 Rising Star Research Award by the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) SIGMETRICS. The award recognizes Gandhi’s fundamental contributions to the analysis, modeling, design, and implementation of energy-efficient systems in data centers and cloud computing.

Anshul Gandhi, who is also an NSF CAREER awardee, earned his PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon University. His 2013 thesis, Dynamic Server Provisioning for Data Center Power Management, won the 2013 SPEC Distinguished Dissertation Award. After graduating, he spent a year as a post-doctoral researcher at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Gandhi’s research aims to leverage mathematical tools to address challenges in computer systems. Within Stony Brook’s College of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Department of Computer Science, Gandhi leads the PACE Lab and currently advises six PhD students and 14 MS students.