Publications

Conference & Journal Papers

• HYDRA: Multi-Level Ensemble Learning for Failure-Resilient Edge Inference Krishna Praneet Gudipaty, Walid Hanafy, Nathan Ng, Kaan Ozkara, Qianlin Liang, Jesse Milzman, David Irwin, Suhas Diggavi, Prashant Shenoy ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC'26). To appear.
• Collaborative Processing for Multi-Tenant Inference on Memory-Constrained Edge TPUs Nathan Ng, Walid Hanafy, Prashanthi Kadambi, Balachandra Sunil, Ayush Gupta, David Irwin, Yogesh Simmhan, Prashant Shenoy IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things (DCOSS-IoT'26) Best Paper Award
• To Offload or Not To Offload: Model-driven Comparison of Edge-native and On-device Processing in the Era of Accelerators Nathan Ng, David Irwin, Ananthram Swami, Don Towsley, Prashant Shenoy ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE'26)
• TailClipper: Reducing Tail Response Time of Distributed Services Through System-Wide Scheduling Nathan Ng, Abel Souza, David Irwin, Don Towsley, Prashant Shenoy ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC'24)
• Collaborative Inference in Resource-Constrained Edge Networks: Challenges and Opportunities Nathan Ng, Abel Souza, Suhas Diggavi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Don Towsley, Prashant Shenoy IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'24), IoT for Adversarial Environments Workshop
• Unlocking Efficiency: Understanding End-to-End Performance in Distributed Analytics Pipelines Abel Souza, Nathan Ng, Tarek Abdelzaher, Don Towsley, Prashant Shenoy IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM'23), IoT for Adversarial Environments Workshop
• FGreat: Focused Graph Query Autocompletion Nathan Ng, Peipei Yi, Zhiwei Zhang, Byron Choi, Sourav S. Bhowmick, Jianliang Xu IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'19), Demonstration Track
• Answering the Why-Not Questions of Graph Query Autocompletion Guozhong Li, Nathan Ng, Peipei Yi, Zhiwei Zhang, Byron Choi International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA'18)

Preprints & Under Submission

• Computation Placement in the Device-Edge Continuum: Model-Driven Comparison of On-Device, Edge-Native, and Split Processing with Accelerators Nathan Ng, David Irwin, Ananthram Swami, Don Towsley, Prashant Shenoy Under review at ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems (TAAS)
• Tuning the Tail Latency of Distributed Queries Using Replication Nathan Ng, Hung Le, Marco Serafini Under review at the Distributed and Parallel Databases Journal (DAPD). arXiv:2212.10387

Patents

• Dynamic User Profile Management Nathan Ng, Tung Mai, Thomas Greger, Kelly Quinn Nicholes, Antonio Cuevas, Saayan Mitra, Somdeb Sarkhel, Anup Bandigadi Rao, Ryan A. Rossi, Viswanathan Swaminathan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan US Patent US12,339,916B2. Published June 2025
• Dynamic User Profile Projection Nathan Ng, Tung Mai, Thomas Greger, Kelly Quinn Nicholes, Antonio Cuevas, Saayan Mitra, Somdeb Sarkhel, Anup Bandigadi Rao, Ryan A. Rossi, Viswanathan Swaminathan, Shivakumar Vaithyanathan US Patent US12,130,876B2. Published October 2024