Abhishek Chandra

He/Him

Professor

Contact

chandra@umn.edu

612-626-1283

4-209 Kenneth H. Keller Hall
200 Union Street Se
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Abhishek Chandra

He/Him

Professor

Research

Chandra's research interests are in the areas of operating systems and distributed systems. His research focuses on resource management and performance in large-scale distributed systems with the goal of achieving reliability, scalability, and manageability. The recent focus has been on designing and optimizing systems for data-intensive computing applications in cloud and edge computing platforms, especially for data generated near end-users (e.g., mobile and IoT data).

Research Division
Computing Systems

Current Research
Google Scholar
Distributed Computing Systems Lab

Ph.D. Graduates
Dhruv Kumar (2022); Albert Jonathan (2019; co-advised with Jon Weissman); Kwangsung Oh (2019; co-advised with Jon Weissman); Benjamin Heintz (2016); Michael Cardosa (2011); Jinoh Kim (2010; co-advised with Jon Weissman).

Recent News

Chandra’s Group Wins Best Paper at 2023 CCGrid Conference
Wolfrath and Chandra receive Best Poster Award at SEC 2020

Biography

Education

Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Massachusetts Amherst
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

Professional Background

Abhishek Chandra joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in 2004 as an assistant professor. He is also affiliated with the Distributed Computing Systems Group Lab at the University. Chandra received his M.S. (2000) and Ph.D. (2005) in computer science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is a lifetime member of ACM and a member of IEEE. Chandra received the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award in 2007 and the IBM Faculty Award in 2011.

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Teaching

Publications & Awards

Honors and Awards

2011: IBM Faculty Award
2007: National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER Award)

Selected Grants
CNS Core: Small: Scaling the IoT with Constellation
Weissman, J. B. & Chandra, A.; National Science Foundation; 10/1/19 - 9/30/23

Collaborative Research: Dispersed Real-time Data Analytics
Chandra, A. & Sitaraman, R.;NSF CISE Computer Systems Research - Core Program; 9/1/17 - 8/31/22

MESH: A Hypergraph Analysis Engine for Understanding Large-Scale Social Networks
Chandra, A., Srivastava, J. & Subbian, K.; National Science Foundation; 9/1/14 - 8/31/19