Biography
Blesson Varghese is Reader in the School of Computer Science at the University of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø. He directs the Ìýfunded by Rakuten, Japan.
He was the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Rising Star Award and a Royal Society industry fellowship to British Telecoms plc, UK. His research interests are in developing large-scale distributed systems spanning the cloud and the edge of the network and has academic, industry and consulting experience in multiple continents.
He has featured in '', a documentary on the cloud produced by Hewlett Packard and VMWare, and has interviewed on .
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Teaching
I teach CS5052: Data-Intensive Systems that focuses on the design of large-scale distributed systems encompassing the cloud and the edge.Ìý
I also supervise undergraduate and postgraduate projects.Ìý
Research areas
My research focuses on addressing systems-related challenges for developing large-scale distributed systems, specifically those encompassing the cloud and the edge of the network. My current interests are in unlocking the scientific and societal potential in 'Edge computing', referred to as the next Internet frontier.Ìý
PhD supervision
- JiaweiÌýLuo
- DhananjayÌýSaikumar
Selected publications
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Open access
Wu, D., Wong, L. & Varghese, B., Apr 2026, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 177, p. 1-14 14 p., 108250.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Eccles, B. J., Wong, L. & Varghese, B., Feb 2026, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 175, p. 1-15 15 p., 108056.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Wu, D., He, W., Feng, W., Wen, Z., Qian, B. & Varghese, B., 21 Jul 2025, p. 1-6. 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Open access
Antar, G. O. K. & Varghese, B., 31 Dec 2025, Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM international conference on utility and cloud computing (UCC 2025). New York: ACM, 10 p. 2
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Open access
Eccles, B. J., Rodgers, P., Kilpatrick, P., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., Mar 2024, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 152, p. 43-54
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Wu, D., Ullah, R., Rodgers, P., Kilpatrick, P., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., 4 Jan 2024, In: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. Early Access, 13 p., 10380682.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Chhetri, T. R., Dehury, C. K., Varghese, B., Fensel, A., Srirama, S. N. & DeLong, R. J., Aug 2024, In: Future Generation Computer Systems. 157, p. 164-179
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Saikumar, D. & Varghese, B., Apr 2024, EuroSys '24: Proceedings of the Nineteenth European Conference on Computer Systems. ACM, p. 999-1015 17 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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Open access
Zhang, Z., Rodgers, P., Kilpatrick, P., Spence, I. & Varghese, B., Nov 2024, In: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 193, 17 p., 104947.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
Eccles, B. J., Wong, L. & Varghese, B., 8 Oct 2024, 2024 IEEE/ACM 24th International symposium on cluster, cloud and internet computing (CCGrid). Los Alamitos: IEEE, p. 317 - 326 10 p. 10701394. (IEEE International symposium on cluster, cloud and internet computing (CCGrid)).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution
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