Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

For the second straight year, Saurabh Bagchi, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been chosen to receive an Adobe Faculty Award. The award is given to academicians around the world for work on computing systems, data analytics, and other topics of interest to Adobe. The award recognizes recent work that has achieved a technical breakthrough plus has demonstrated practical value.

The award comes with a gift donation to the awardee’s research program plus a set of technical collaborators within Adobe Research to move the work forward. Bagchi’s research on reliable and secure cloud computing was being recognized through the award. He is co-organizing a workshop on this at the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), jointly with colleagues from Adobe, Army Research Lab, Columbia University, Princeton, and TU Dresden.

A result from Bagchi’s work on the topic, achieved jointly with ETH Zurich and Adobe Research, is going to appear at the forthcoming Usenix Annual Technical Conference. The paper is titled “SONIC: Application-aware Data Passing for Chained Serverless Applications” and reports on a new method for supporting data analytics workflows on the cloud, while achieving latency bounds and reducing the dollar cost. 

“Prof. Bagchi and his research staff at Purdue are investigating mission-critical problems related to reliably and securely operating large-scale software systems within public clouds,” said Tom Jacobs, Director of the Systems Technology Lab at Adobe Research based in San Jose, California. “We’re excited to support his research and collaborating with his entire team.”

Bagchi directs the Center for Resilient Infrastructures, Systems, and Processes (CRISP) at Purdue. His research group, the Dependable Computing Systems Lab (DCSL), has as its mission how to build computing systems that are reliable and secure.