The digital revolution is transforming scientific disciplines across the board, with our growing reliance on large-scale, heterogeneous, and often uncertain datasets propelling scientific discovery to new realms. This surge in data-intensive computing has underscored the critical need for sustainable, efficient, and intelligent data analytics systems. The IT industry is estimated to contribute 20% to the world's energy consumption by 2030, with an economic cost of over $100 Billion and unprecedented carbon emissions. This motivated all major IT companies to set goals for reducing their energy consumption and carbon footprints in the next decade. In this talk, I will present my research efforts in developing a seamlessly distributed and sustainable cyberinfrastructure enabled by AI for efficient search, access, and discovery of a vast amount of distributed, heterogeneous, complex, and dynamic data sources. I will illustrate how my work interweaves cutting-edge systems research, data science, and AI/ML technologies to develop resilient, intelligent, and sustainable solutions for large-scale data analytics pipelines. Our unique approach drastically reduces the energy consumption and carbon footprint of computing without negatively impacting the system's performance.
Tevfik Kosar, a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University at Buffalo (UB), received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 2005. He has carved a niche in applying advanced AI/ML techniques to optimize the performance, scalability, and sustainability of distributed systems, high-performance computing, and big-data analytics pipelines. His significant contributions are in geo-distributed data analytics, performance and energy efficiency in large-scale systems, wide-area distributed data coordination, and end-to-end dataflow management. Some of the awards received by Dr. Kosar include the NSF CAREER Award, IBM Research Award, Google Research Award, IEEE Region-I Technological Innovation Award, UB Senior Faculty Research and Teaching Award, and UB Exceptional Scholar: Sustained Achievement Award. Dr. Kosar recently served as a Program Director in the NSF Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and led the development of NSF’s Blueprint for National Data and Software Cyberinfrastructure. He served as the General Chair of the IEEE CLOUD 2023 and IEEE CLOUD 2024 conferences and currently serves as the Program Chair of the IEEE SERVICES 2025 conference. Dr. Kosar is also on the Editorial Boards of the IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.