I am Yankai Jiang, a 4th-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.

News
  • Oct 2026Grateful to receive the Northeastern PhD Network Travel Funding. Thanks for the support!
  • Sep 2026Honored to receive the ACM-IEEE CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Honorable Mention. Thank you all!
  • Jul 2026Our paper HolyDiver on water- and carbon-aware serverless computing has been accepted to SC'26!
Selected Publications
WaterSplit: Coordinated On-Site and Off-Site Water Allocation For Sustainable Datacenter Cooling

Yankai Jiang, Raghavendra Kanakagiri, Rohan Basu Roy, Devesh Tiwari
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), 2026.
[ paper ] [ code ] [ slides ]

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 ]

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 ]

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