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Palden Lama
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Texas at San Antonio
NPB 3.306
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
Phone: (210) 458-6088
E-mail: palden.lama[at]utsa.edu
Palden Lama is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
He received the BTech degree in electronics and communication engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, in 2003. He has four years of professional experience in the software industry.
He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in 2013. He has also worked as a research aide at the Argonne National Laboratory during his Ph.D study.
Dr. Lama's research interests include the areas of Cloud computing, Edge Computing, Big Data and Cyber Seurity.
News
- March 2024, Paper accepted at IEEE IPDPS Workshop 2024 (Parallel AI and Systems for the Edge). Congratulations to Hasanul and Peng !
- February 2024, Paper accepted at IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2024. Congratulations to Peng !
- September 2023, Abstract accepted at Women in Machine Learning (WiML) Workshop 2023. Congratulations to Xue !
- September 2023, Funded from NSF on "Collaborative Research: SaTC-EDU: Integrating Cybersecurity in Computing Curricula: A Software PBL-Driven Approach with Focus on Identity and Access Management (IAM)" !
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Research Interests
- Cloud Computing and Data Centers
- Edge Computing
- Big Data
- Cyber Security
The ever-evolving and growing Internet services have set forth many challenges to computer scientists who are constantly looking for effective ways of making it more scalable, secure, reliable and faster. At the same time, there is a need to make these systems self-adaptive and autonomic to reduce human efforts. This is a field of active research which demands state-of-the-art techniques that transcend the boundary of various disciplines of computer science as well as Computer engineering.
Dr. Lama's research interests lie broadly at the synergistic intersection of Cloud Computing, Edge Computing, Big Data and Cyber Security. He focuses on developing systems and middleware approaches to improve the performance, efficiency and security of cloud, edge and big data systems.
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Teaching
Teaching at the University of Texas at San Antonio, Department of Computer Science
- CS 4843/5573 Cloud Computing
CS 4593/5463, Cloud and Big Data
CS 5523, Operating Systems
CS 3423, Systems Programming
CS 4593, AT: Pathogenic OutBreak Investigation
Previous Teaching at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Department of Computer Science
- CS 4500/5500, Operating Systems
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Professional Services
TPC Chair:
- IEEE Cloud Summit 2024.
Track Chair:
- Grid, Cloud, Internet and Peer-to-peer Computing and Communication (GCIP) track in the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2015
Travel Award Chair:
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid) 2015
Editor:
- IEEE Technical Committee of Distributed Processing (TCDP) Newsletter, 2021 - Present
- MDPI Electronics: Special Issue: Towards Efficient and Reliable AI at the Edge, 2023
- MDPI Electronics: Special Issue: Cloud Computing and Smart Systems, 2022
Program Committee Member:
- IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2022, 2023, 2024
- IEEE International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM) 2021, 2022
- IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS) 2021.
- IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) 2017
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
- IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) 2017
- IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC) 2017
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) 2017
- IEEE SmartCity 2017
- IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data and Analytics (HiPC) 2016
- IEEE International Workshop on BigData and Cloud Performance (DCPerf) 2016
Reviewer:
- ACM Computer Surveys
- ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
- IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)
- IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing
- IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
- IEEE Communications Magazine
- Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- Journal of Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Journal of Grid Computing
- Journal of Network and Computer Applications
- Cluster Computing
- Future Generation Computer Systems
- Elsevier Genomics Data
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2014
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2014
- IEEE/IFIP Intl Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) 2013
- IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2012
- IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), 2013
Awards
- Winner of xTechHBCU 2022 competition sponsored by the US Army.
- Best Paper Nomination. IEEE MASCOTS 2017.
- Best Paper Award. IEEE CLOUD 2017.
- NSF Travel Grant Support for IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 Conference
- Student Travel Grant, ACM International Conference on Autonomic Computing, ICAC 2012
- Student Travel Grant, IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, DSN 2012
- Outstanding PhD Student of the Year, Department of Computer Science, UCCS, 2010
- UCCS Graduate Fellowship Award, 2008-2010