News
- Chandra co-directs the
Lab for Research on Adaptive Computing Environments (RACELab) and research efforts on
xGFabric,
SmartFarm
,
Where's the Bear (WTB),
and Next-Gen Cloud/Edge IoT Systems,
with Prof. Rich Wolski.
- Congrats to Liubov Kurafeeva for successfully defending her PhD dissertation Real-Time Data-Driven Decision Support for Remote Edge Deployments
- Congrats to Animesh Dangwal for successfully defending his PhD dissertation Power Adaptive and Resource Aware Deployments for Remote Edge Systems!!
Research
Interests/Areas: Digital and precision agriculture; AI systems for the Internet of Things (IoT); programming systems; cloud computing and services; distributed edge computing; energy efficient computing; digital twin infrastructure spanning the HPC-Cloud-Edge continuum.
A complete publication list can be found here. Examples from the past few years:- Next-Generation HPC-Cloud-Edge, IoT, and Digital Twin Infrastruccture for Physical AI
[IC2E26] [DCOSS26] [XLOOP25] [AIoT25] [FMEC25] [IEEE Cloud24] [IEEE FMEC24] [IEEE CLOUD24] [ACM CF24] [IEEE TPDS23] [ACM SEC20] [ACM SEC19] -
UCSB SmartFarm -- including xGFabric and other IoT/AI applications...
Hybrid Edge Cloud Systems and HPC-linked Sensor Networks for Simplifying and Automating Energy Efficient Systems, Digital Agriculture, and Biosurveilance (including Where's The Bear (WTB)) [XLOOP25] [Sensors24] [CUPS 2023] [IEEE SmartAGR23] [SCI21]
Teaching and Service (past 3 years)
Courses: (course links only available when course is being taught)
- CS263 -- Runtime Systems (F26) Syllabus
- CS189AB -- Computer Science Undergraduate Capstone (F25 - CS189A, W27 - CS189B)
- CS186 (was CS190B) -- IoT Systems (F23) Syllabus
-
F20-W21 CS595J/BREN595AL Research Seminar: Data-Driven Food Systems
- CS148 -- Computer Science Project Syllabus
Service (past 3 years):
- 2025-Present: Associate Graduate Dean of UCSB Graduate Division
- 2025-2026: Co-Editor (w/ Ovidiu Vermesan and Rosa Badia) for the special journal issue on Intelligent Self-Organised, Dynamic, and Adaptive Complex Distributed Systems in Frontiers in Complex Systems
- 2024-Present: Member Editorial Board, Digital Agriculture Journal; Pivot Science Publications
- 2024-25: Member -- Council on Research and Instructional Resources (CRIR) and the subcommittee on Information Technology
- 2023-24: Chair of the UCSB Graduate Council (+ member of the UCSB Executive Council, and UC-wide CCGA)
- 2022 Program Co-Chair (with Dave Bermbach) of IEEE IC2E 2022
- 2021-25: Member -- CRA Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Council
- 2021-2023: Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board -- AIFarms AI Institute
- 2022-2023: Vice Chair of the UCSB Graduate Council
- 2021-2023: Members of the Scientific Advisory Board -- IoT4Ag Engineering Research Center
- 2021-2024: Member of the UCSB Graduate Council
- 2021-24: Member of the IEEE IC2E Steering Committee
- 2019-23: Vice Chair of Graduate Affairs, CS Dept. UCSB
Awards and Press (past 3 years)
- CCC blog post on our CACM Sustainability article Aug 2026
- RACELab's massive raspberry pi cluster (Oracle Gift!) featured in the UCSB Current (Apr 2025)
- 2025 NSF funds our 3-year project on Distributed Dataflow for the Internet of Things!
- 2025 Co-led a panel on energy efficient computing selected as a scientific session at the AAAS Annual Meeting 2025. Computing is Eating the World: Will Saving the Planet Destroy It?
- 2024 Interview on Energy Efficient AI with Michela Taufer (UTK) for Inside AI News, Oct 2024
- 2024 DOE funds UCSB/BNL/UNL/UND collaboration on Coupling Sensor Networks and HPC Facilities with Advanced Wireless Networks for Near-Real-Time Simulation of Digital Agriculture!
- 2024 Honored to be featured as the Cal-Bridge Spotlight!!
- 2024 - Invited to give keynote at the IEEE World AI IoT Congress (AIIoT)!
- 2024 - Invited to speak at the Vineyard Team's Ag Expo