[Yogesh Simmhan] Orchestrating Agentic Systems across Edge and Cloud

Yogesh Simmhan is a Professor in the Department of Computational and Data Sciences at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he leads the DREAM:Lab. His research explores scalable software platforms, algorithms and applications on distributed systems. These span Cloud and Edge Computing, scalable machine learning, agentic and quantum middleware, and temporal graph processing to support emerging IoT and autonomous systems applications. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed papers, and won the IEEE TCSC SCALE Challenge (2026, 2019 and 2012), the Best Paper Award at IEEE CLOUD 2019 and the Distinguished Paper Award at EuroPar 2018. He is a recipient of the Swarna Jayanti Fellowship (2019–2024), the Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam HPC & AI Award (2026) and the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing (Mid-Career Researcher) in 2020. He is an Associate Editor of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) and earlier served as Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Yogesh has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University, Bloomington, and was previously a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, and a Postdoc at Microsoft Research, San Francisco. He is a Distinguished Member of the ACM, a Distinguished Contributor of the IEEE Computer Society, and serves on the Executive Committee of the ACM India Council.