
I am a Professor of the Computer Science Department. I received the Distinguished Ph.D. Dissertation Award from Auburn University (2008), Texas State University Presidential Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities (2015), and the Texas State University Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Scholarly/Creative Activities (2020). I am a general member of the Green Software Foundation.
My research focuses on Energy-Efficient Computing and Systems, including Green Software Design, Green AI, Green Cloud, and Green Data Center. We welcome qualified and self-motivated students to join our group.

(11/2024) Two research papers on evaluating the energy efficiency of LLM generated code and modeling the energy consumption of programs in VSCode have been published by IGSC.
(11/2023) Two research papers on the carbon impact of Large Language Models inference and training have been accepted by IPCCC and IGSCC.
(08/2022) Three research papers on AI and computer vision have been accepted by the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV'22).
(05/2022) Our paper on winning the lottery ticket via fourier analysis has been published by the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP'22).
(01/2022) Our paper on analyzing cross-platform software energy efficiency has been published by the Journal of Sustainable Computing (SUSCOM).
(07/2021) Our paper on parallel knowledge distillation has been published by the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.