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Paul Townend

Head of Green Distributed Computing group, Scientific Coordinator for Horizon Europe COGNIT, Co-PI to WASP WARA-Ops, Research Leader in ADSLab, member of WASP Graduate School Management.

Research qualifications: Docent

Contact

E-mail
paul.townend@ͯÑÕÊÓƵ
Phone
+46 90 786 61 38

Works as

Affiliation
Associate professor at
Location
MIT-huset, Umeå universitet, MIT.C.229 Umeå universitet, 901 87 Umeå

Head of the Green Distributed Computing group, I'm interested in using AI and Data Science to develop intelligent resource management mechanisms for low-carbon distributed systems, with a current focus on Edge-Cloud! .

I am Scientific Coordinator of the , Co-Manager and Scientific Advisor of the WASP , and a member of the . I am also a Research Leader within the lab and a member of the Department’s Committee for Research (CORE).

I supervise 4 PhD students and 2 post-docs, and I coordinate and teach the Level 5 Cloud Computing course. My .

Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium 2025, NOMS 2025, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. 2025 : 1-7
Mudgal, Ankur; Singh, Munesh; Verma, Abhishek; et al.
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier 2025, Vol. 174
Theodoropoulos, Theodoros; Patel, Yashwant Singh; Zdun, Uwe; et al.
Proceedings of 2024 1st Edition of the Mediterranean Smart Cities Conference, MSCC 2024, IEEE 2024 : 1-6
Lalaguna, Antonio; Townend, Paul; Ojaghi, Behnam; et al.
Proceedings: 18th IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering, SOSE 2024, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2024 : 25-35
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul
Cluster Computing, Springer 2024, Vol. 27, (4) : 4095-4125
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul; Singh, Anil; et al.
UCC '23: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 16th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
2023 IEEE international conference on service-oriented system engineering (SOSE): proceedings, IEEE 2023 : 48-59
Patel, Yashwant Singh; Townend, Paul; Östberg, Per-Olov
2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE), IEEE 2023 : 12-22
Townend, Paul; Martí, Alberto P.; De La Iglesia, Idoia; et al.
2022 IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW), IEEE 2022 : 688-698
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
2022 IEEE International Conference on Service-Oriented System Engineering (SOSE), IEEE 2022 : 176-184
Saleh Sedghpour, Mohammad Reza; Townend, Paul
2022 1st International Conference on 6G Networking, 6GNet 2022
Tarneberg, William; Fitzgerald, Emma; Bhuyan, Monowar H.; et al.
Proceedings: 2022 IEEE 13th International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing, IEEE Computer Society 2022 : VIII-VIII
Townend, Paul; Wo, Tianyu
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.
Kidane, Lidia; Townend, Paul; Metsch, Thijs; et al.

Research groups

Research leaders
Autonomous Distributed Systems Lab
Head of research
Green Distributed Computing Group

Research projects

24 January 2024 until 31 December 2027
Energy-Aware Autonomous Management for Cloud-Edge Infrastructures
1 December 2023 until 30 April 2029
De facto Center of Excellence in Autonomous Distributed Systems
31 January 2023 until 31 December 2025
COGNIT: A Cognitive Serverless Framework for the Cloud-Edge Continuum
15 January 2023 until 31 December 2025
WASP WARA – Operational Data Research Arena
1 September 2021 until 1 September 2022
WARA Common Information Bridge -Enabling Research on Data-Driven Cloud Operations

I am course leader of:
Advanced Distributed Systems (5DV205)
Cloud Computing (5DV192)
Distributed Systems (5DV186).

I also supervise Masters student projects, typically related to Distributed Systems in some way.