Krishnasuri Narayanam
Eminent Speaker
Short CV: Krishnasuri Narayanam is a Senior Research Engineer and Manager(Sustainable Computing) at IBM Research India, Bangalore. He is an IBM Master Inventor with 40 Granted US Patents and an author of IEEE/ACM peer-reviewed research papers. He has obtained MS degree in Computer Science & Engineering from IIT Madras in the year 2006. He has more than 17 years of experience in developing and delivering distributed computing solutions. He was working as a Software Engineer at Symantec, Pune before joining IBM Research in 2010. He is serving as an ACM India PhD Clinic mentor, speaker under ACM India Eminent Speaker Program, ACM Member, and IEEE Senior Member.
Title of Talk 1: Blockchain for accelerated processing of Supply Chain
Synopsis: A supply chain transaction is a complex business process involving mutually untrusting organizations communicating to achieve common objectives (like delivery of goods from a supplier to the end-user). Any supply chain transaction consists of multiple phases that execute over a long period, like freight transport, invoice generation, goods receiving, claim generation, payment adjustment, and payment processing. This talk addresses the use of Blockchain technology to accelerate phases of a supply chain transaction like invoice generation, claim generation, and payment processing by digitally representing a supply chain transaction on a decentralized ledger and applying optimizations.
Title of Talk 2: Overview of Blockchain interoperability
Synopsis: Blockchain interoperability helps connect independent blockchain networks to unlock the full potential of distributed ledger technology. However, the existence of heterogeneous blockchain protocols and the lack of established standards for inter-blockchain communication makes exploring the study of blockchain interoperability non-trivial and challenging. This talk provides a summary of inter-blockchain communication patterns like trusted data sharing, cross-chain asset swaps, and crosschain asset transfers. In particular, this talk addresses the model and protocols under each cross-chain communication pattern.
Title of Talk 3: Carbon-aware Cloud Data Center Optimization
Synopsis: A cloud data center consists of three main infrastructure components like power-distribution, cooling, and servers. Running client workloads in a data center incurs consumption of power. Data centers can either draw power from conventional smart grids resulting in high carbon emissions or use power generated from renewable energy sources. However, there is uncertainty in the availability of the time and amount of renewable energy generated. This talk describes various options for the execution of cloud data center workloads minimizing carbon emissions by exploring strategies like the flexibility of workloads for time and geo shifting across data centers, batteries to store renewable energy for later use, and efficient scheduling of workloads on cloud servers.
Krishnasuri Narayanam
Qualifications: M.S (By Research), IIT Madras, 2006
Title: Manager & Senior Research Engineer
Affiliation: IBM Research India, Bangalore
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