Gopika Premsankar

Tenure-track Assistant Professor
Department of Information and Communications Engineering
School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University

Before joining Aalto University as an assistant professor, I was an Academy of Finland postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki, and a postdoctoral researcher at Ivey Business School in Canada funded by the Finnish Cultural Foundation. I completed my doctoral research in 2020 at the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University (supervisor: Prof. Mario Di Francesco). I have also spent time in research labs at VU Amsterdam, Duke University, Nokia Bell Labs and IBM Research Ireland.

Portrait of Gopika Premsankar

I lead the Cloud and Network Computing group, and our research focuses on improving the performance, reliability and sustainability of cloud and networked systems. Read more about our group's research here

You can contact me at [firstname][dot][lastname][at]aalto[dot]fi

Students at Aalto University: a list of thesis and special project topics is available on our Wiki page.

News

Earlier news
  • Happy to present the paper “Timely Data Delivery for Heterogeneous IoT Applications”, written together with Verónica Toro-Betancur, Lorenzo Corneo and Mario Di Francesco, at WiOpt 2025.
  • Our paper “Dynamic Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning Framework for Energy-Efficient 5G Base Stations in Urban Environments” has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. PDF available here.
  • Invited to serve on the TPC of ACM SenSys 2025.
  • Attended the Dagstuhl seminar on Greening Networking: Toward a Net Zero Internet.
  • Our paper “A robust optimization approach for placement of applications in edge computing considering latency uncertainty” has been accepted to Elsevier Omega. PDF available here and code on GitHub.
  • I have joined Aalto University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor.
  • I will serve on the TPC of the International Workshop on Networked AI Systems, organized as part of ACM MobiSys 2023.
  • I am visiting VU Amsterdam in March, hosted by Lin Wang and Bala Chandrasekaran.
  • A pre-print of our paper “Latency-Aware Provisioning of Resources in Edge Computing: A Robust Optimization Approach” is available here.
  • Our paper “Learning How to Configure LoRa Networks with No Regret: a Distributed Approach” has been accepted to IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. PDF available here and code on GitHub.
  • Organized a session on applications of optimization in edge computing and telecommunication networks at EURO 2022.
  • Our paper “Energy-Efficient Service Placement for Latency-Sensitive Applications in Edge Computing” has been accepted to the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. PDF available here and code on GitHub.
  • Our paper “Here to Stay: A Quantitative Comparison of Virtual Object Stability in Markerless Mobile AR” has been accepted in the Second IEEE/ACM Workshop on Cyber-Physical-Human System Design and Implementation, co-located with CPS-IoT Week 2022. Pre-print available here.
  • Our paper “InDepth: Real-time Depth Inpainting for Mobile Augmented Reality” has been accepted in ACM IMWUT / UbiComp 2022. Pre-print available here.
  • I have joined the University of Helsinki as a postdoctoral researcher, funded by the Academy of Finland.
  • Our paper “Data-driven Energy Conservation in Cellular Networks: A Systems Approach” has been accepted in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. Pre-print available here.
  • Happy to have given a (virtual) guest lecture on edge computing in Prof. Maria Gorlatova’s course at Duke University. Slides here.
  • I have joined Ivey at University of Western Ontario as a postdoctoral researcher. Thanks to the Finnish Cultural Foundation.