Manish Marwah

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Senior Research Scientist
Palo Alto

Biography



Manish Marwah is a researcher in the Analytics Lab. His main research interests are data mining, machine learning, big data, visual analytics, energy analytics, sustainability, cyber physical systems, internet of things, data centers, dependability of systems. 

He received his PhD in Computer Science from University of Colorado at Boulder. His PhD thesis focused on building distributed systems with enhanced server fault-tolerance to provide seamless user experience. He has also worked for several years in the telecommunication industry, most recently as an architect with Avaya Labs.

His research has led to more than 55 refereed papers in conferences and journals; and resulted in 11 issued patents (and over 50 pending).

Manish received an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

 

Research interests

data mining, machine learning, visual analytics, energy analytics, sustainability, data centers, dependable systems

Awards

Best Application Paper Award runner-up at ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2009

One of the Best papers at VDA 2011
Best Paper Award at the IEEE Green Computing Conference (IGCC), 2011
"Pick of the Month" of IEEE STC on Sustainable Computing Newsletter, March 2012
Honorable Mention, VisWeek, 2012


Publications

  • [VDA 2013] Ming Hao, Manish Marwah, Sebastian Mittelstadt, Halldor Janetzko, Daniel Keim, Umeshwar Dayal, Cullen Bash, Carlos Felix, Chandrakant Patel, Meichun Hsu, Yuan Chen, "Visual Analytics for Cyber Physical Data Streams Using Spatio-Temporal Radial Pixel Visualization," submitted to IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), 2013.  
  • [BuildSys 2012] G. Bellala, M. Marwah, A. Shah, M. Arlitt, C. Bash, "A Finite State Machine-based Characterization of Building Entities for Monitoring and Control", Proceedings of ACM Workshop on Building Systems (Buildsys), Nov 2012.  
  • N. Ramakrishnan, M. Marwah, A. Shah, D. Patnaik, D., M.S. Hossain, N. Sundaravaradan, C. Patel, "Data Mining Solutions for Sustainability Problems", IEEE Potentials, 2012.  
  • [KDD 2012] Gowtham Bellala, Manish Marwah, Martin Arlitt, Geoff Lyon, Cullen Bash, "Following the Electrons: Methods for Power Management in Commercial Buildings." In KDD, August 12-16, 2012, Beijing, China.

  • [SIGMETRICS 2012] Z. Liu, Y. Chen, C. Bash, A. Wierman, D. Gmach, Z. Wang, M. Marwah, C. Hyser, "Renewable and Cooling Aware Workload Management for Sustainable Data Centers", ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance, June 11-15 2012, London, UK.

  • [ITherm 2012] Manish Marwah, Cullen Bash, Rongliang Zhou, Carlos Felix, Rocky Shih, Tom Christian, "Estimating data center thermal correlation indices from historical data." In 13th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), May 30 - June 1, 2012, San Diego, CA.  

  • [ITherm 2012] Martin Arlitt, Cullen Bash, Sergey Blagodurov, Yuan Chen, Tom Christian, Daniel Gmach, Chris Hyser, Niru Kumari, Zhenhua Liu, Manish Marwah, Alan McReynolds, Chandrakant Patel, Amip Shah, Zhikui Wang, Rongliang Zhou, "Towards The Design And Operation Of Net-Zero Energy Data Centers", in 13th Intersociety Conference on Thermal and Thermomechanical Phenomena in Electronic Systems (ITherm), May 30 - June 1, 2012, San Diego, CA.  
  • [SUSCOM] A. Gandhi, Y. Chen, D. Gmach, M. Arlitt and M. Marwah, "Hybrid Resource Provisioning for Minimizing Data Center SLA Violations and Power Consumption", Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM), 2012.  
  • [VAST 2012] Ming Hao, Manish Marwah, Sebastian Mittelstadt, Halldor Janetzko, Daniel Keim, Umeshwar Dayal, Cullen Bash, Carlos Felix, Chandrakant Patel, Meichun Hsu, Yuan Chen, "Visualizing Cyber Physical Data Streams Using Radial Pixel Rings" in Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST) (poster), Seattle, WA, Oct 2012.

  • [AAAI 2012] P. Chakraborty, M. Marwah, M. Arlitt, N. Ramakrishnan, "Fine-grained Photovoltaic Output Prediction Using a Bayesian Ensemble." In Proceedings of the 26th Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI'12), Toronto, Canada, July 2012.  
  • H. Shao, M. Marwah, N. Ramakrishnan, "A Temporal Motif Mining Approach to Unsupervised Energy Disaggregation," in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Non-intrusive Load Monitoring, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2012.
  • [IVS] M. Hao, M. Marwah, H. Janetzko, U. Dayal, D. Keim, D. Patnaik, N. Ramakrishnan, R. Sharma, "Visual Exploration of Frequent Patterns in Multivariate Time Series," Information Visualization, Vol. 11, No. 1, pages 71-83, Jan 2012.

  • [BuildSys 2011] Gowtham Bellala, Manish Marwah, Martin Arlitt, Geoff Lyon, Cullen Bash, "Towards an understanding of campus-scale power consumption." In ACM BuildSys, November 1, 2011, Seattle, WA  
  • [IEEE Computer] M. Marwah, A. Shah, C. Bash, C. Patel, N. Ramakrishnan, Using Data Mining to Help Design Sustainable Products, IEEE Computer, August 2011.  
  • [IGCC 2011] A. Gandhi, Y. Chen, D. Gmach, M. Arlitt, and M. Marwah,  Minimizing Data Center SLA Violations and Power Consumption via Hybrid Resource Provisioning, Second International Green Computing Conference (IGCC 2011), July 2011. (Best paper award).  
  • [ACM TIST 2011] D. Patnaik, M. Marwah, R. Sharma, and N. Ramakrishnan, Temporal Data Mining Approaches for Sustainable Chiller Management in Data Centers, ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, July 2011.    
  • [AAAI 2011] N. Sundaravaradan, D. Patnaik, N. Ramakrishnan, M. Marwah, and A. Shah, Discovering Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Trees from Impact Factor Databases, in Twenty-Fifth Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’11), Special Track on AI and Sustainability, San Francisco, CA, Aug 2011.  
  • [ES 2011] Christopher Hoover, Ratnesh Sharma, Brian Watson, Sue Charles, Amip Shah, Chandrakant Patel, Manish Marwah, Tom Christian, Cullen Bash (2011) “Sustainable IT Ecosystems: Enabling Next-Generation Cities.” 5th International ASME Energy Sustainability Conference.  
  • [EuroVis 2011]  Ming Hao, Halldór Janetzko, Sebastian Mittelstädt, Water Hill, Umeshwar Dayal, Daniel Keim, Manish Marwah, Ratnesh Shama. A Visual Analytics Approach for Peak-Preserving Prediction of Large Seasonal Time Series. EuroVis, Bergen, Norway, May 2011. 
  • [ISSST 2011] N. Sundaravaradan, M. Marwah, A. Shah, and N. Ramakrishnan, Data Mining Approaches to Life Cycle Assessment, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST’11), Chicago, IL, May 2011. 
  • [SDM 2011] Hyungsul Kim, Manish Marwah, Martin Arlitt, Geoff Lyon and Jiawei Han, "Unsupervised Disaggregation of Low Frequency Power Measurements", SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM 11), Mesa, Arizona, April 28-30, 2011. 
  • [VDA 2011] M.C. Hao, M. Marwah, H. Janetzko, D. Keim, U. Dayal, R. Sharma, D. Patnaik, and N. Ramakrishnan, Visual Analysis of Frequent Patterns in Large Time Series, in Proceedings of the IS&T/SPIE Conference on Visualization and Data Analysis (VDA), San Francisco, CA, Jan 2011.  
  • [VAST 2010] M.C. Hao, M. Marwah, H. Janetzko, D. Keim, U. Dayal, R. Sharma, D. Patnaik, and N. Ramakrishnan, Visual Analysis of Frequent Patterns in Large Time Series, in Poster Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Visual Analytics Science and Technology (IEEE VAST), 2 pages, Salt Lake City, UT, Oct 2010. 
  • [IMECE 2010] Manish Marwah, Martin Arlitt, Chirstopher Hoover, Cullen Bash, Ratnesh Sharma, "Exploratory Analysis of Aggregate Power Metrics in Data Centers," IMECE, Vancouver, Canada, 2010. 
  • [SensorKDD 2010] Manish Marwah, Ratnesh Sharma, Wilfredo Lugo, Lola Bautista, "Anomalous Thermal Behavior Detection in Data Centers using Hierarchical PCA," SensorKDD in conjunction with KDD 2010.
  • [ICAC 2010] B. Watson, M. Marwah, D. Gmach, Y. Chen, M. Arlitt, Z. Wang, "Probabilistic Performance Modeling of Virtualized Resource Allocation," 7th Int. Conf. on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC), June 7-11, 2010, Washington, D.C, USA. 
  • [Itherm 2010] Manish Marwah, Ratnesh Sharma and Cullen Bash, "Thermal Anomaly Prediction in Data Centers," Itherm 2010, Las Vegas, NV. 
  • [IDA 2010] Debprakash Patnaik, Manish Marwah, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Naren Ramakrishnan, "Data Mining for Modeling Chiller Systems in Data Centers," IDA 2010, Tuscon, AZ. 
  • [IMECE 2009] Sharma, R., Bash, C.E., Marwah, M., Christian, T., Patel, C.D." MICROGRIDS: A new approach to supply-side design of datacenters", ASME IMECE 2009. 
  • [InterPACK 2009] M. Marwah, R. Sharma, W. Lugo. Autonomous Detection of Thermal Anomalies in Data Centers. In ASME InterPACK, San Francisco, July 2009.  
  • [InterPACK 2009] Z. Wang, C. Bash, N. Tolia, M. Marwah, X. Zhu, P. Ranganathan. Optimal Fan Speed Control for Thermal Management of Servers. In ASME InterPACK, San Francisco, July 2009.
  • [InterPACK 2009] N. Tolia, Z. Wang, P. Ranganathan, C. Bash, M. Marwah, X. Zhu. Unified Thermal and Power Management in Server Enclosures. In ASME InterPACK, San Francisco, July 2009.
  • [InterPACK 2009] B. J. Watson, A. J. Shah, M. Marwah, C. E. Bash, R. K. Sharma, C. E. Hoover, T. W. Christian, C. D. Patel. Integrated Design and Management of a Sustainable Data Center. In ASME InterPACK, San Francisco, July 2009.
  • [NHT 2009] R. Sharma, M. Marwah, and W. Lugo. Application of data analytics to heat transfer phenomena for optimal design and operation of complex systems. In the proceedings of ASME National Heat Transfer Conference, San Francisco, July 2009.
  • [KDD 2009] D. Patnaik, M. Marwah, R. Sharma, N. Ramakrishnan. Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers using Temporal Data Mining. In the proceedings of ACM KDD, Paris, France, June 2009 (Best application paper award runner-up) 
  • [GREENMETRICS 2009] M. Marwah, P. Maciel, A. Shah, R. Sharma, T. Christian, C. Ara�jo, E. Souza, G. Callou, B. Silva, S. Galdino, J.P. Pires, "Quantifying Sustainability Impact of Data Center Availability," GreenMetrics, Seattle, WA, June 2009
  • [ISSST 2009] B.J. Watson, R. K. Sharma, S. K. Charles, A.J. Shah, C.D. Patel, M. Marwah, C. E. Hoover, T. W. Christian, and C. E. Bash. Creating a Sustainable IT Ecosystem: Enabling Next-Generation Urban Infrastructures. To appear in the proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), Phoenix, AZ, May 2009.
  • [ISSST 2009] Tom Christian, Yuan Chen, Rocky Shih, Ratnesh Sharma, Christopher Hoover, Manish Marwah, Amip Shah, Daniel Gmach. Automated Synthesis of Sustainable Data Centers. To appear in the proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), Phoenix, AZ, May 2009.
  • [ISSST 2009] Manish Marwah, Ratnesh Sharma, Naren Ramakrishnan, Cullen Bash, Chandrakant Patel. Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Sustainable Ecosystems. (Poster) To appear in the proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology (ISSST), Phoenix, AZ, May 2009.
  • [Compute 2009] Marwah, Sharma, Patel, Shih, Bhatia, Mekanapurath, Velayudhan. Data analysis, Visualization and Knowledge Discovery in Sustainable Data Centers. In the proceedings of ACM Compute, Bangalore, India, Jan 2009.
  • [HotPower 2008] N. Tolia, Z. Wang, M. Marwah, C. Bash, P. Ranganathan, and X. Zhu. Zephyr: Delivering energy proportionality with non energy proportional systems optimizations at the ensemble layer. In the proceedings of HotPower, San Diego, CA, Dec 2008.
  • [DSN 2008] M. Marwah, S. Mishra and C. Fetzer. Enhanced Server Fault-Tolerance for Improved User Experience. In the Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Anchorage, AK, June 2008.
  • [Chapter] M. Marwah and S. Mishra. Wireless IP Telephony. Invited book chapter in The Handbook of Computer Networks, Wiley, 2007.
  • [HASE 2007] M. Marwah, S. Mishra and C. Fetzer. Systems Architectures for Transactional Network Interface. In proceedings of 10th IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium, Dallas, TX, Nov. 2007.
  • [SRDS 2006] M. Marwah, S. Mishra and C. Fetzer. Fault-tolerant and scalable TCP splice and web server architecture. In the Proceedings of the 25th IEEE Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS 2006), Leeds, UK, October 2006.
  • [WADS 2006] M. Marwah, S. Mishra and C. Fetzer. An Evaluation of Fault Tolerant TCP-Splice Based Web Server Architectures. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Architecting Dependable Systems (WADS), co-located with DSN 2006, Philadelphia, PA, June 2006.
  • [ICCCN 2005] M. Marwah, D. Chavez, D. Gillespie, and V. Velamala. Efficient, Scalable Migration of IP Telephony Calls for Enhanced Fault-tolerance. In proceedings of Fourteenth International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, San Diego, Oct. 2005.
  • [DSN 2005] M. Marwah, S. Mishra and C. Fetzer. A system demonstration of ST-TCP. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Yokohama, Japan, June 2005.
  • [DSP 2004] M. Marwah and S. Das. UniCA - A Unifed Classi cation Algorithm For Call Progress Tones. In the proceedings of the 11th IEEE Digital Signal Processing Workshop, Taos Ski Valley, NM, August 2004.
  • [DSN 2003] M. Marwah, S. Mishra and C. Fetzer. TCP Server Fault Tolerance Using Connection Migration to a Backup Server. In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), San Francisco, CA, June 2003.
  • [Journal] M. Marwah and R. L. Mahajan. Building Neural Network Equipment Models Using Model Modifier Techniques. In IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, August 1999.
  • [Journal] M. Marwah, Y. Li and R. L. Mahajan. An Integrated Approach to ANN Modeling and its Applications in Electronics Manufacturing. In Journal of Electronics Manufacturing, Vol. 6, No. 2, June 1996.

Professional activities

Program Committee, CIKM 2013
Program Committee, KDD 2013
Program Committee, AAAI 2013

Co-organizer, SustKDD 2012 (workshop at KDD) 
Program Committee, KDD 2012 
Program Committee, AAAI 2012
Program Committee, DCDV 2012

Co-organizer, SustKDD 2011 (workshop at KDD) 

Reviewer for several conferences and journals.