Biography
Blesson Varghese is Reader in the School of Computer Science at the University of St Andrews. He directs the Edge Computing Hub funded by Rakuten, Japan.
He was the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Rising Star Award and a Royal Society industry fellowship to British Telecoms plc, UK. His research interests are in developing large-scale distributed systems spanning the cloud and the edge of the network and has academic, industry and consulting experience in multiple continents.
He has featured in 'Clouded', a documentary on the cloud produced by Hewlett Packard and VMWare, and has interviewed on broadcast media.
Find more information on his personal homepage or Google Scholar profile.
Teaching
I teach CS5052: Data-Intensive Systems that focuses on the design of large-scale distributed systems encompassing the cloud and the edge.
I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects.
Research areas
My research focuses on addressing systems-related challenges for developing large-scale distributed systems, specifically those encompassing the cloud and the edge of the network. My current interests are in unlocking the scientific and societal potential in 'Edge computing', referred to as the next Internet frontier.
PhD supervision
- Dhananjay Saikumar
- Bailey Eccles
- Zihan Zhang
- Di Wu
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AI-based fog and edge computing: a systematic review, taxonomy and future directions
Iftikhar, S., Gill, S. S., Song, C., Xu, M., Aslanpour, M. S., Toosi, A. N., Du, J., Wu, H., Ghosh, S., Chowdhury, D., Golec, M., Kumar, M., Abdelmoniem, A. M., Cuadrado, F., Varghese, B., Rana, O., Dustdar, S. & Uhlig, S., Apr 2023, In: Internet of Things. 21, 41 p., 100674.Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review
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CONTINUER: maintaining distributed DNN services during edge failures
Majeed, A. A., Kilpatrick, P., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., 24 Aug 2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE 2022). Ardagna, C. A., Bian, H., Chang, C. K., Chang, R. N., Damiani, E., Elia, G., He, Q., Puig, V., Ward, R., Xhafa, F. & Zhang, J. (eds.). IEEE Computer Society, 10 p. 9860277. (IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Context-aware distribution of fog applications using deep reinforcement learning
Wang, N. & Varghese, B., Jul 2022, In: Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 203, 14 p., 103354.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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FedAdapt: adaptive offloading for IoT devices in federated learning
Wu, D., Ullah, R., Harvey, P., Kilpatrick, P., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., 13 May 2022, (Accepted/In press) In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 13.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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FedFly: towards migration in edge-based distributed federated learning
Ullah, R., Wu, D., Harvey, P., Kilpatrick, P., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., Nov 2022, In: IEEE Communications Magazine. 60, 10, p. 42-48 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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ROMA: Run-Time Object Detection To Maximize Real-Time Accuracy
Lee, J., Varghese, B. & Vandierendonck, H., 11 Oct 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Roadmap for Edge AI: a Dagstuhl perspective
Yi Ding, A., Peltonen, E., Meuser, T., Aral, A., Becker, C., Dustdar, S., Hiessl, T., Kranzlmüller, D., Liyanage, M., Maghsudi, S., Mohan, N., Ott, J., Rellermeyer, J. S., Schulte, S., Schulzrinne, H., Solmaz, G., Tarkoma, S., Varghese, B. & Wolf, L., 1 Mar 2022, In: ACM Computer Communication Review. 52, 1, p. 28-33Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Open access
A Case for Adaptive Deep Neural Networks in Edge Computing
McNamee, F., Dustdar, S., Kilpatrick, P., Shi, W., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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AVEC: Accelerator Virtualization in Cloud-Edge Computing for Deep Learning Libraries
Kennedy, J., Varghese, B. & Reano, C., 2021.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Abusive adversaries in 5G and beyond IoT
Sharma, V., Varghese, B., McAllister, J. & Mohanty, S., 19 May 2021, In: IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. 11, 4, p. 11 - 20 10 p., 9435931.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review