Philipp Wiesner

I’m a research associate and third year PhD student at TU Berlin, working in the research group on Distributed and Operating Systems (DOS) by Prof. Odej Kao. Before that, I’ve worked as a Software and Data Engineer at different companies in Berlin. My research focus is on low-carbon and renewable-aware computing: Optimizing computing systems to use energy at times and places when/where it is expected to be green. Besides that, I’m interested in artificial intelligence, future computing paradigms such as the Internet of Things, as well as distributed systems in general.

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News

March 2023: I presented or current research on leveraging renewable excess energy in federated fearning at the Low-Carbon and Sustainable Computing seminar series organized by the University of Glasgow.
January 2023: I’m visiting the IRIT in Toulouse for two weeks to collaborate on their DATAZERO2 project.
November 2022: Our solution Lowcarb won the 1st price in CarbonHack22 organized by the Green Software Foundation.
October 2022: This winter I’ll supervise our Master Project: Distributed Systems, which will be on Carbon-Aware Computing.
August 2022: I have been invited to a discussion on carbon-aware computing in the Environment Variables podcast of the Green Software Foundation. Listen to the episode here!

Projects I am currently working on/with the following projects and teams:

ide3a, an international and multidisciplinary teaching and research project financed by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Within this project we give lectures and organize hackathons on critical urban infrastructures, smart sensing, and smart cities. Furthermore, we are developing a serious game connecting different simulators of different sectors for research and educational purposes.
Synergy, a project on sustainable edge intelligence in collaboration with Huawei. It is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as Software Campus who provide additional funding for a two year research project and mentoring/training for doctoral candidates.
ARM, a joint effort by researchers from TU Berlin and the University of Glasgow focusing on adaptive resource management for data-intensive applications in distributed computing environments.
diselab, a joint effort by researchers from TU Berlin and Hasso Platner Institute on the dependability and efficiency of critical applications in the Internet of Things.

Selected Publications

Cucumber: Renewable-Aware Admission Control for Delay-Tolerant Cloud and Edge Workloads
Philipp Wiesner, Dominik Scheinert, Thorsten Wittkopp, Lauritz Thamsen, and Odej Kao
28th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par). Springer. 2022.
Conference preprint code BIFOLD news and TU Berlin press release
Let's Wait Awhile: How Temporal Workload Shifting Can Reduce Carbon Emissions in the Cloud
Philipp Wiesner, Ilja Behnke, Dominik Scheinert, Kordian Gontarska, and Lauritz Thamsen
22nd ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference (Middleware). ACM. 2021.
Conference preprint code BIFOLD news and TU Berlin press release; covered in New Scientist; hackernews frontpage
Towards a Staging Environment for the Internet of Things
Jossekin Beilharz, Philipp Wiesner, Arne Boockmeyer, Florian Brokhausen, Ilja Behnke, Robert Schmid, Lukas Pirl, and Lauritz Thamsen
19th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom). IEEE. 2021.
Work in progress Best WiP Paper preprint code