I am actively seeking a PhD research internship for Summer 2026 (starting in May). [CV]

I am Yankai Jiang, a 3rd-year Computer Engineering PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Devesh Tiwari. I'm part of the Goodwill Lab. My research focuses on cloud computing, sustainable computing and HPC.

Previously I obtained my M.S. in Computer Engineering from Northwestern University, advised by Prof. Peter Dinda and Prof. Xinyu Xing. Prior to that, I graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University with B.E. in Automation. Also, I was a student from Special Class for the Gifted Young.

Publications
C1.
ThirstyFLOPS: Water Footprint Modeling and Analysis Toward Sustainable HPC Systems

Yankai Jiang, Raghavendra Kanakagiri, Rohan Basu Roy, Devesh Tiwari
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2025.
[ paper ] [ code ] [ slides ] [ video ]

C2.
ForgetMeNot: Understanding and Modeling the Impact of Forever Chemicals Toward Sustainable Large-Scale Computing

Rohan Basu Roy, Raghavendra Kanakagiri, Yankai Jiang, Devesh Tiwari
International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (SIGMETRICS), 2025.
[ paper ] [ code ] [ slides ] [ abstract ] [ 3min-video ]

C3.
WaterWise: Co-optimizing Carbon- and Water-Footprint Toward Environmentally Sustainable Cloud Computing

Yankai Jiang, Rohan Basu Roy, Raghavendra Kanakagiri, Devesh Tiwari
Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP), 2025.
[ paper ] [ code ] [ slides ]

C4.
EcoLife: Carbon-Aware Serverless Function Scheduling for Sustainable Computing

Yankai Jiang, Rohan Basu Roy, Baolin Li, Devesh Tiwari
International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC), 2024.
[ paper ] [ code ] [ slides ] [ reports ]

C5.
Sprout: Green Generative AI with Carbon-Efficient LLM Inference

Baolin Li, Yankai Jiang, Vijay Gadepally, Devesh Tiwari
Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024.
[ paper ] [ code ] [ slides ]

C6.
The Hidden Carbon Footprint of Serverless Computing

Rohan Basu Roy, Raghavendra Kanakagiri, Yankai Jiang, Devesh Tiwari
Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2024.
[ paper ] [ slides ]

C7.
LLM Inference Serving: Survey of Recent Advances and Opportunities

Baolin Li, Yankai Jiang, Vijay Gadepally, Devesh Tiwari
Outstanding Paper Award Nomination
High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC), 2024.
[ paper ] [ slides ]

W8.
Carbon in Motion: A Case Study on Sustainability of Generative AI for Video Generation

Baolin Li, Yankai Jiang, Devesh Tiwari
Workshop on Sustainable Computer Systems (HotCarbon), 2024.
ACM SIGEnergy Energy Informatics Review (EIR), 2024
[ paper ] [ slides ]

W9.
Advancing Serverless Computing for Scalable AI Model Inference: Challenges and Opportunities

Li Wang, Yankai Jiang, Ningfang Mi
International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC), 2024.
[ paper ] [ slides ]