4 papers
Characterizing FaaS Workflows on Public Clouds: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Varad Kulkarni, Nikhil Reddy, Tuhin Khare +3
Function-as-a-service (FaaS) is a popular serverless computing paradigm for developing event-driven functions that elastically scale on public clouds. FaaS workflows, such as AWS S…
UNet-Based Keypoint Regression for 3D Cone Localization in Autonomous Racing
Mariia Baidachna, James Carty, Aidan Ferguson +7
Accurate cone localization in 3D space is essential in autonomous racing for precise navigation around the track. Approaches that rely on traditional computer vision algorithms are…
FAME: QoS-aware Async Service Orchestration for Agentic Workflows
Varad Kulkarni, Haseeb Abdullah Kollorath, Vaibhav Jha +5
Agentic workflows built on Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly rely on external tools, with Model Context Protocol (MCP) services emerging as a common interface for tool disc…
Towards AI Agents for Course Instruction in Higher Education: Early Experiences from the Field
Yogesh Simmhan, Varad Kulkarni
This article presents early findings from designing, deploying and evaluating an AI-based educational agent deployed as the primary instructor in a graduate-level Cloud Computing c…