Umakishore
Ramachandran
General Information
Email:
rama@gatech.edu
Phone:
404-894-5136
Location - Building:
KACB
Location - Room:
2340
Roles:
Professor (any rank)
Primary Unit:
School of Computer Science
Website URL
Details
Degrees with subject and Postdoc Experience:
Degree Type
PhD
Subject
Computer Science
Year
1986
Institution
UW-Madison
Location
Madison, Wisconsin
Statement of Research Interests:
Parallel and Distributed Systems
Statement of Teaching Interests:
Operating systems, Computer architecture, Cloud computing
Selection of recent research, scholarly, and creative activities:
- Adam Hall, Anirudh Sarma, Esha Choukse (Microsoft), Umakishore Ramachandran, Sameh Elnikety (Microsoft), Harvesting Spare CPU Resources in Container Systems, 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26), May 2026.
- Adam Hall, Umakishore Ramachandran, A Hybrid Runtime for Function-as-a-Service at the Edge, 26th ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware '25), December 2025.
- Manasvini Sethuraman, Anirudh Sarma, Netra Ghaisas, Adwait Bauskar, Ashutosh Dhekne, Anand Sivasubramaniam, Umakishore Ramachandran, BASS: A Resource Orchestrator to Account for Vagaries in Network Conditions in Community Wi-Fi Mesh, ACM/IFIP Middleware, Hong Kong, China, December 2024.
- Anirudh Sarma, Jinsun Yoo, Jithin Kallukulam Sojan, Myungjin Lee, and Umakishore Ramachandran, FEO: Efficient Resource Allocation for FaaS at the Edge, DEBS '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, Lyon, France, June 2024.
- Harshit Gupta, Enrique Saurez, Henriette Röger, Sukanya Bhowmik, Umakishore Ramachandran and Kurt Rothermel, Color-based Lightweight Utility-aware Load Shedding for Real-Time Video Analytics at the Edge, DEBS '24: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, Lyon, France, June 2024.