Jaylen Wang is a PhD Candidate working with Prof. Akshitha Sriraman on enabling sustainable data center systems. His work bridges computer architecture and software systems, demonstrating the importance of that bridge in enabling sustainable data center systems via solutions that span the compute stack.

As the demand for web services continues to grow, data centers are scaling up to meet the demand, consuming a massive amount of energy and producing significant carbon emissions. Jaylen's research focuses on addressing the growing carbon emissions, produced both by running and manufacturing hardware, of data centers by analyzing inefficiencies across computer architecture and software systems and designing solutions to make these systems more energy and carbon efficient. His work is one of the first to examine the environmental impact of hyperscale web systems and to provide actionable insights to reduce it. His work integrates carbon efficiency into computer system design, as it is crucial for sustainable growth and access to critical web services in both developed and developing nations. Jaylen's work is a step towards curbing computing’s contributions towards climate change and promoting sustainable computing practices.

Jaylen's research has been recognized with the 2024 Jack and Mildred Bowers Scholarship in Engineering, the 2023 NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Award, the 2023 Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship HM, the 2023 Benjamin Garver Lamme/Westinghouse Graduate Fellowship, and the 2022 Carnegie Institute of Technology Dean’s Fellowship.

Find out more about Jaylen here.