The Case for Energy Clarity
Event details
| Date | 25.08.2025 |
| Hour | 15:00 › 17:00 |
| Speaker | Fan Chung |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
EDIC candidacy exam
Exam president: Prof. Martin Odersky
Thesis advisor: Prof. George Candea
Co-examiner: Prof. David Atienza
Abstract
Fan's thesis is focused on reasoning about the resource usage of applications, with the goal of achieving "energy clarity", i.e., understanding how the software and hardware energy usage is influenced by inputs, configurations, and system states. He is investigating the concept of "energy interfaces", which are ways to summarize an application's energy behavior analogously to how functional interfaces summarize functional behavior. These energy interfaces should enable developers to better understand energy usage: they can read and execute the interfaces, they can use the interfaces to specify energy constraints (e.g.,. upper bounds), and so on.
For the candidacy exam, he is proposing to discuss existing work on resource usage analysis, use cases for such energy interfaces, and his preliminary work on obtaining energy interfaces for real-world applications. He published some of these initial thoughts in HotOS (https://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/energy-clarity.pdf).
Selected papers
Exam president: Prof. Martin Odersky
Thesis advisor: Prof. George Candea
Co-examiner: Prof. David Atienza
Abstract
Fan's thesis is focused on reasoning about the resource usage of applications, with the goal of achieving "energy clarity", i.e., understanding how the software and hardware energy usage is influenced by inputs, configurations, and system states. He is investigating the concept of "energy interfaces", which are ways to summarize an application's energy behavior analogously to how functional interfaces summarize functional behavior. These energy interfaces should enable developers to better understand energy usage: they can read and execute the interfaces, they can use the interfaces to specify energy constraints (e.g.,. upper bounds), and so on.
For the candidacy exam, he is proposing to discuss existing work on resource usage analysis, use cases for such energy interfaces, and his preliminary work on obtaining energy interfaces for real-world applications. He published some of these initial thoughts in HotOS (https://dslab.epfl.ch/pubs/energy-clarity.pdf).
Selected papers
- TAPAS: Thermal-and Power-Aware Scheduling for LLM Inference in Cloud Platforms
- Performance Interfaces for Network Functions
- CLONE: Customizing LLMs for Efficient Latency-Aware Inference at the Edge
Practical information
- General public
- Free