Expert in Smart Computing and Optimization Technologies
Sabri Pllana is a renowned expert in high performance computing, AI applications, and system optimization.
Selected Publications
DECICE: Device-Edge-Cloud Intelligent Collaboration Framework. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers (CF '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 266–271. https://doi.org/10.1145/3587135.3592179
Optimization of heterogeneous systems with AI planning heuristics and machine learning: a performance and energy aware approach. Computing (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-021-01017-6.
Programming Languages for Data-Intensive HPC Applications: a Systematic Mapping Study. Parallel Computing, Volume 91, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.parco.2019.102584
Using meta-heuristics and machine learning for software optimization of parallel computing systems: a systematic literature review. Computing 101, 893–936 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-018-0614-9
CHAOS: a parallelization scheme for training convolutional neural networks on Intel Xeon Phi. J Supercomput 75, 197–227 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-017-1994-x
IoT-based Urban Noise Identification Using Machine Learning: Performance of SVM, KNN, Bagging, and Random Forest. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS '19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 62–67. https://doi.org/10.1145/3312614.3312631
Using a multi-agent system and artificial intelligence for monitoring and improving the cloud performance and security, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 86, 2018, Pages 1106-1117, ISSN 0167-739X, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.05.046.
Sabri Pllana holds a PhD degree (with distinction) in computer science from the Vienna University of Technology. His working experience in the last three decades include, senior scientist at the University of Vienna in Austria, associate professor in Sweden, director of a research center in Austria, and consultant for the World Bank. His research interests include: high performance computing (HPC), AI, modeling and optimization. He also studies properties of various kinds of socio-technical systems using innovative modelling and simulation techniques. He contributed to several EU-funded projects and he coordinated the FP7 project PEPPHER. Sabri Pllana is Senior Member of the IEEE, ACM member, associate editor of Computing journal (Springer), and HiPEAC member.