I am a PhD student at the Kahlert School of Computing of the University of Utah, working with Prof. Ryan Stutsman as a member of the Utah Scalable Computer Systems Lab. I also closely work with Prof. Rohan Basu Roy. During my PhD, I have been fortunate to intern at National Labs (LLNL, ANL), HPE Labs, and Yale University.

Before joining Utah, I obtained my master's degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur, India. I was an exchange scholar at Tsinghua University, China. I also worked as a visiting research scholar at MPI-SWS in Germany, scientific research assistant at TU Darmstadt in Germany and research Intern at TCS Innovation Labs in India.

Research Highlights

My research interests lie in serverless/cloud computing, sustainability, storage and file systems and high-peformance computing. I develop efficient scheduling and resource management techniques that integrate cloud and HPC resources to optimize the performance and sustainability. My work aims to:

  • Understand the performance variability of existing and emerging cloud systems.
  • Propose fair and efficient policies for end-to-end resource management to existing services.
  • Design novel abstractions and frameworks to simplify and debug concurrent and fault-tolerant applications.
  • Specialize applications to run efficiently on new cloud architectures.
In particular, I attempt to bridge the sustainability-performance gap between emerging large-scale applications and heterogeneous cloud/hpc platforms.

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Selected Publications

GridGreen: Integrating Serverless Computing in HPC Systems for Performance and Sustainability.
Amit Samanta, Ryan Stutsman, and Rohan Basu Roy
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2025 | [pdf] | [bibtex] |

Water Footprint of Datacenter Applications: Methodological Implications of Manufacturing, Operational,
and Decommissioning Phases.
Amit Samanta, Yankai Jiang, Ryan Stutsman, and Rohan Basu Roy
ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC)ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing, 2025 | [pdf] [bibtex]

Fair, Efficient Multi-Resource Scheduling for Stateless Serverless Functions with Anubis.
Amit Samanta, and Ryan Stutsman
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid) IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, 2024 | [pdf] [bibtex]

Persistent-Memory-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Workloads.
Amit Samanta, Faraz Ahmed, Lianjie Cao, Ryan Stutsman and Puneet Sharma.
IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW) IEEE IPDPS Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analysis, 2023 | [pdf] [link] [bibtex]

A Case of Multi-Resource Fairness for Serverless Workflows.
Amit Samanta, and Ryan Stutsman..
ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, 2023 | [pdf] [bibtex]

ASAP: Adaptive and Scalable Microservice Provisioning for Edge-IoT Networks.
Amit Samanta, Faraz Ahmed, Lianjie Cao, Ryan Stutsman and Puneet Sharma.
IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS) IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference, 2023 | [pdf] [bibtex]

Dyme: Dynamic Microservice Scheduling in Edge Computing Enabled IoT.
Amit Samanta, and Jianhua Tang.
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ) IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020 | [pdf] [bibtex]

Incentivizing Microservices for Online Resource Sharing in Edge Clouds.
Amit Samanta, Lei Jiao, Max Mühlhäuser, and Lin Wang.
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2019 | [pdf] [bibtex]

Battle of Microservices: Towards Latency-Optimal Heuristic Scheduling for Edge Computing.
Amit Samanta, Yong Li, and Flavio Esposito.
IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization, 2019 | [pdf] [bibtex]

For more details, please refer to full publication list .

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