Publications

Publications by year in reversed chronological order.

2025

  1. Arxiv
    MEL.jpg
    MEL: Multi-level Ensemble Learning for Resource-Constrained Environments
    Krishna Praneet Gudipaty, Walid A. Hanafy, Kaan Ozkara, and 4 more authors
    2025
  2. Arxiv
    CarbonFlex: Enabling Carbon-aware Provisioning and Scheduling for Cloud Clusters
    Walid A. Hanafy, Li Wu, David Irwin, and 1 more author
    2025
  3. NeurIPS
    FMTK: A Modular Toolkit for Composable Time Series Foundation Model Pipelines
    Hetvi Shastri, Pragya Sharma, Walid A. Hanafy, and 2 more authors
    In The NeurIPS workshop on Recent Advances on Time Series Foundation Models: Have We Reached the BERT Moment? (BERT^2S), 2025
  4. SenSys
    Poster Abstract: Rethinking Collaboration Among Mobile Devices in IoT Environments
    Hetvi Shastri, Walid A. Hanafy, Li Wu, and 3 more authors
    2025
  5. HPDC
    HPDC25.jpg
    CarbonEdge: Leveraging Mesoscale Spatial Carbon-Intensity Variations for Low Carbon Edge Computing
    Li Wu, Walid A. Hanafy, Abel Souza, and 5 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 34th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC ’25), 2025
  6. JCSS
    GreenThrift: Optimizing Carbon and Cost for Flexible Residential Loads
    Phuthipong Bovornkeeratiroj, Walid A. Hanafy, David Irwin, and 1 more author
    ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Mar 2025
    Presented in COMPASS 2025
  7. SoCC
    SoCC25.jpg
    FailLite: Failure-Resilient Model Serving for Resource-Constrained Edge Environments
    Li Wu, Walid A. Hanafy, Tarek Abdelzaher, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Mar 2025
  8. SEC
    LLM-Driven Auto Configuration for Transient IoT Device Collaboration
    Hetvi Shastri, Walid A. Hanafy, Li Wu, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the Tenth ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), Mar 2025
  9. HotCarbon
    Data Centers Carbon Emissions at Crossroads: An Empirical Study
    Diptyaroop Maji, Walid A. Hanafy, Li Wu, and 3 more authors
    ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review, Mar 2025
    Presented in HotCarbon’25
  10. IEEE Internet Computing
    A Vision for Computational Decarbonization of Societal Infrastructure
    David Irwin, Prashant Shenoy, Mohammad Hajiesmaili, and 14 more authors
    IEEE Internet Computing, Mar 2025

2024

  1. MILCOM
    Enhancing Resilience in Distributed ML Inference Pipelines for Edge Computing
    Li Wu, Walid A. Hanafy, Abel Souza, and 3 more authors
    In MILCOM 2024 - 2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Mar 2024
  2. MIT URTC
    Home Decarbonizer: Greening Household Energy Consumption Using Temporal Shifting
    Mihir Shenoy and Walid A. Hanafy
    In 2024 IEEE MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference (URTC), Mar 2024
  3. ASPLOS
    ASPLOS24.jpg
    Going Green for Less Green: Optimizing the Cost of Reducing Cloud Carbon Emissions
    Walid A. Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, Noman Bashir, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 29th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Volume 3, La Jolla, CA, USA, Mar 2024
  4. SIGMETRICS
    SIGMETRICS24.jpg
    🏆 CarbonScaler: Leveraging Cloud Workload Elasticity for Optimizing Carbon-Efficiency
    Walid A. Hanafy, Qianlin Liang, Noman Bashir, and 2 more authors
    SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Jun 2024
  5. HotCarbon
    The War of the Efficiencies: Understanding the Tension between Carbon and Energy Optimization
    Walid A. Hanafy, Roozbeh Bostandoost, Noman Bashir, and 3 more authors
    ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review, Sep 2024
    Presented in HotCarbon’23
  6. HotCarbon
    Data-driven Algorithm Selection for Carbon-Aware Scheduling
    Roozbeh Bostandoost, Walid A. Hanafy, Adam Lechowicz, and 3 more authors
    ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review, Apr 2024
    Presented in HotCarbon’24
  7. SoCC
    CDN-Shifter: Leveraging Spatial Workload Shifting to Decarbonize Content Delivery Networks
    Jorge Murillo, Walid A. Hanafy, David Irwin, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, Redmond, WA, USA, Apr 2024
  8. ICCCN
    Acies-OS: A Content-Centric Platform for Edge AI Twinning and Orchestration
    Jinyang Li, Yizhuo Chen, Tomoyoshi Kimura, and 16 more authors
    In 2024 33rd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Apr 2024
  9. e-Energy
    LACS: Learning-Augmented Algorithms for Carbon-Aware Resource Scaling with Uncertain Demand
    Roozbeh Bostandoost, Adam Lechowicz, Walid A. Hanafy, and 3 more authors
    In The 15th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy ’24), June 4–-7, 2024, Singapore, Apr 2024
  10. INFOCOM
    INSERT: In-Network Stateful End-to-End RDMA Telemetry
    Hyunseok Chang, Walid A. Hanafy, Sarit Mukherjee, and 1 more author
    In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, Apr 2024

2023

  1. MILCOM
    Failure-Resilient ML Inference at the Edge through Graceful Service Degradation
    Walid A. Hanafy, Li Wu, Tarek Abdelzaher, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) workshop on Internet of Things for Adversarial Environments, Oct 2023
  2. SEC
    Energy Time Fairness: Balancing Fair Allocation of Energy and Time for GPU Workloads
    Qianlin Liang, Walid A. Hanafy, Noman Bashir, and 2 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC), Dec 2023
  3. IoTDI
    Dělen: Enabling Flexible and Adaptive Model-serving for Multi-tenant Edge AI
    Qianlin Liang, Walid A. Hanafy, Noman Bashir, and 3 more authors
    In Proceedings of IEEE/ACM Eighth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), San Antonio, May 2023
  4. IWQoS
    Understanding the Benefits of Hardware-Accelerated Communication in Model-Serving Applications
    Walid A. Hanafy, Limin Wang, Hyunseok Chang, and 3 more authors
    In 2023 IEEE/ACM 31st International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), May 2023
  5. ASPLOS
    ASPLOS23.jpg
    Ecovisor: A Virtual Energy System for Carbon-Efficient Applications
    Abel Souza, Noman Bashir, Jorge Murillo, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 2023
  6. TAAS
    Model-driven Cluster Resource Management for AI Workloads in Edge Clouds
    Qianlin Liang, Walid A. Hanafy, Ahmed Ali-Eldin, and 1 more author
    ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, May 2023

2021

  1. WEEE
    Design Considerations for Energy-Efficient Inference on Edge Devices
    Walid A. Hanafy, Tergel Molom-Ochir, and Rohan Shenoy
    In Proceedings of International Workshop on Energy-Efficient Learning at the Edge, Virtual Event, Italy, May 2021

2019

  1. ICENCO
    Machine Learning Approach for Photovoltaic Panels Cleanliness Detection
    Walid A. Hanafy, Alfredo Pina, and Sameh A. Salem
    In 2019 15th International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), May 2019
  2. IEEE Access
    A New Infrastructure Elasticity Control Algorithm for Containerized Cloud
    Walid A. Hanafy, Amr E. Mohamed, and Sameh A. Salem
    IEEE Access, May 2019

2017

  1. ICENCO
    Novel Selection Policies for Container-based Cloud Deployment Models
    Walid A. Hanafy, Amr E. Mohamed, and Sameh A. Salem
    In 2017 13th International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), May 2017
  2. ICCES
    A Load Balancing with Power Optimization Algorithm for Container-based Infrastructure Management
    Walid A. Hanafy, Amr E. Mohamed, and Sameh A. Salem
    In 2017 12th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems (ICCES), May 2017