Amit Samanta

PhD Student, Computer Science
Kahlert School of Computing
John and Marcia Price College of Engineering
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah

amit@cs.utah.edu
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Amit Samanta
About me

I am a PhD student at the Kahlert School of Computing of the University of Utah, working with Prof. Ryan Stutsman and Prof. Rohan Basu Roy. I am affiliated with Systems & Software for High Performance Computing Lab (SysHPC) and Utah Scalable Computer Systems Lab. I am also affiliated with the Scientific Computing and Imaging (SCI) Institute. 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 also worked as a visiting research scholar at MPI-SWS in Germany, and a research intern at TCS Innovation Labs in India.

Research Highlights

My research interests lie in serverless/cloud computing, sustainability, storage and file systems, high-performance computing, and quantum computing. I design and build efficient scheduling, resource management, and control-plane techniques that integrate cloud, HPC, and quantum resources to optimize performance, cost, and sustainability at scale. My work aims to:

In particular, I attempt to bridge the sustainability-performance gap between emerging large-scale applications and heterogeneous cloud/HPC platforms.

Selected Publications
SC ‘26
BAHAMAS: A Control Plane for Optimization and Execution of Variational Quantum Circuits
Amit Samanta, Mohammad Abrarul Hasanat, Jason Ludmir, Ryan Stutsman, Tirthak Patel, Rohan Basu Roy
In ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC ’26)
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IPDPS ‘26
Rubix: Adaptive and Fast-Performant Scaling for Serverless-Enabled ML Platforms
Amit Samanta, Andrea Pinto, Flavio Esposito
In IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS ’26)
Paper Cite Code Program

SoCC ’25
Lance Stafford Larson Student Award
GridGreen: Integrating Serverless Computing in HPC Systems for Performance and Sustainability
Amit Samanta, Ryan Stutsman, Rohan Basu Roy
In ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’25)
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SoCC ‘25
Water Footprint of Datacenter Applications: Methodological Implications of Manufacturing, Operational, and Decommissioning Phases
Amit Samanta, Yankai Jiang, Ryan Stutsman, Rohan Basu Roy
In ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC ’25)
Paper Cite Code Program

MAIoT@Middleware '25
Not Just Fast, But Also Sustainable: Rethinking Network Routing
Amit Samanta, Yankai Jiang, Ryan Stutsman, Rohan Basu Roy
In ACM Middleware for Autonomous AIoT Systems in the Computing Continuum (MAIoT@Middleware ’25)
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WoSC@Middleware '25
Illuminating the Hidden Challenges of Serverless LLM Systems
Amit Samanta, Tri Gia Nguyen
In ACM International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC@Middleware ’25)
Paper Cite Program Talk

CCGrid ’24
Fair, Efficient Multi-Resource Scheduling for Stateless Serverless Functions with Anubis
Amit Samanta, Ryan Stutsman
In IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Internet Computing (CCGrid ’24)
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ESSA@IPDPSW ‘23
2nd Runner-Up Best-in-Class Project at HPE Labs
Persistent-Memory-Aware Scheduling for Serverless Workloads
Amit Samanta, Faraz Ahmed, Lianjie Cao, Ryan Stutsman, Puneet Sharma
In IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops (IPDPSW ‘23)
Paper Cite Artifact Benchmark Program

ICPE ‘23
A Case of Multi-Resource Fairness for Serverless Workflows
Amit Samanta, Ryan Stutsman
In ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE ’23)
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WONS ’23
ASAP: Adaptive and Scalable Microservice Provisioning for Edge-IoT Networks
Amit Samanta, Flavio Esposito
In IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services Conference (WONS ’23)
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IoTJ ’20
Dyme: Dynamic Microservice Scheduling in Edge Computing Enabled IoT
Amit Samanta, Jianhua Tang
In IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoTJ ’20)
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ICDCS ‘19
Incentivizing Microservices for Online Resource Sharing in Edge Clouds
Amit Samanta, Lei Jiao, Max Mühlhäuser, Lin Wang
In IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS ’19)
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For more details, please refer to the full publication list .
Work Experience
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
May 2025 - Aug 2025
Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Research Intern
Argonne National Laboratory
May 2024 - Aug 2024
Mathematics and Computer Science, Research Intern
Yale University
May 2022 - Aug 2022
NOVA Lab, Visiting Researcher
Hewlett Packard Labs
May 2021 - May 2022
Networking and Distributed Systems Lab, Research Associate Intern
Selected Awards
MLCommons ML and Systems Rising Stars, 2026
Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) Young Researcher, 2026
Lance Stafford Larson Student Award (Third Place), 2026
QS3 Quantum Rising Star Award, 2026
Internet Society's Pulse Research Fellowship, 2026
Kahlert Impact Prize for academic excellence, 2025
Google Cloud Research Credits, 2024
Tapia Scholarship, ACM Richard Tapia Conference 2024, 2026
NSF Cyber Physical Systems Rising Star, 2024
Won the 2nd Runner-Up Best-in-Class Project at Hewlett Packard Labs, 2021
Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Utah, 2020
Service
Teaching Experience
5040: KSoC Teaching Assistant Training
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2023
5460: Operating Systems
Teaching Assistant
Spring 2021
10003: Programming and Data Structures
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2016
Talks
Media
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