Curriculum Vitae

Specializing in Computer Vision, Self-Supervised Learning, and 3D Scene Understanding.

Professional Summary

PhD researcher specializing in high-performance computing infrastructure with expertise in distributed storage systems, real-time data processing, and exascale computing environments. Developed novel approaches to real-time data management and adaptive resource management for scientific computing applications. Currently advancing the intersection of HPC and artificial intelligence through agentic system architectures to address complex challenges in scientific computing. Proven track record of building HPC-scale middleware systems.

Education

PhD (Computer Science)

Illinois Institute of Technology

2019 - 2025

Master's Degree in Computer Science

Illinois Institute of Technology

2018 - 2019

GPA: 3.85/4.0

Master's and Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering (specialized in Electrical Engineering)

Polytechnic University of Madrid

2013 - 2019

GPA: 3.2/4.0

Experience

Research Assistant

Gnosis Research Center (GRC), Illinois Tech

Sept. 2019 - 2025
  • Research Assistant in the Gnosis Research Center (GRC) at the Illinois Institute of Technology where I worked on a variety of NSF-funded projects, including Hermes, ChronoLog, and IOWarp.
  • Managed the research of junior Ph.D. students, as well as Master students partaking in HPC and Distributed Systems classes.

Guest Lecturer

Illinois Tech

Sept. 2023 - 2025
  • Guest Lecturer at the Illinois Institute of Technology for CS550: Advance Operating Systems and CS553: Cloud Computing.

Intern Computer Researcher

HDF Group

May 2022 - Sept. 2022
  • Internship at the HDF Group exploring and developing new interfaces for the HDF5 library supporting log-data semantics and in-transit computational capabilities.

Teaching Assistant

Illinois Tech

Sept. 2019 - 2025
  • Teaching assistant for Operating Systems and Cloud Computing.
  • Managed classes of 40-60 graduate students.
  • Duties include grading and providing support for all the students queries.

Junior Software Engineer

Everis

Sept. 2016 - July 2018
  • Used Blue Prism to develop two successfully deployed automation projects for multi-national companies.
  • Joined a team of 3 people and left with 15. Helped in the education of the new members.
  • Developed the company procedures for documentation, testing, deployment, etc. for automation projects.

Publications

Accelerating Multi-Agent Orchestration with Speculative Dispatching

Jie Ye, Shazzadul Islam, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026

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@misc{ye2026accelerating,
  author = {Ye, Jie and Islam, Shazzadul and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  title = {Accelerating Multi-Agent Orchestration with Speculative Dispatching},
  howpublished = {Poster, 13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026), Evanston, IL},
  year = {2026},
  month = {May},
}

Acropolis: A Portable, AI-Driven Semantic Search System for HPC

Rajni Pawar, Luke Logan, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Conference • eScience'26 • 2026

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@inproceedings{pawar2026acropolis,
  title={Acropolis: A Portable, AI-Driven Semantic Search System for HPC},
  author={Pawar, Rajni and Logan, Luke and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026)},
  year={2026}
}

Agent Error Simulator: Fault Injection for Testing Recovery in Agentic Workflows

Keith Bateman, Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Bogdan Nicolae, Franck Cappello, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Conference • eScience'26 • 2026

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@inproceedings{bateman2026aes,
  title={Agent Error Simulator: Fault Injection for Testing Recovery in Agentic Workflows},
  author={Bateman, Keith and Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Nicolae, Bogdan and Cappello, Franck and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026)},
  year={2026}
}

Agentic Search Efficiency for Scientific Data Discovery

Shazzadul Islam, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026

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@misc{islam2026agenticsearch,
  title={Agentic Search Efficiency for Scientific Data Discovery},
  author={Islam, Shazzadul and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026)},
  year={2026},
  month=may,
  address={Evanston, IL, USA},
  note={Poster presentation}
}

Correct Is Not I/O Efficient: Characterizing I/O Behavior of LLM Agents on Scientific Data

Izzet Yildirim, Jie Ye, Jaime Cernuda, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026

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@inproceedings{yildirim2026correctisnotioefficient,
  title={Correct Is Not I/O Efficient: Characterizing I/O Behavior of LLM Agents on Scientific Data},
  author={Yildirim, Izzet and Ye, Jie and Cernuda, Jaime and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026)},
  year={2026},
  month={may},
  note={Poster presentation}
}

Pre-RoPE versus Post-RoPE: Trading Per-Step Compute for KVCache Survivability

Zia Uddin Chowdhury, Jaime Cernuda, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Poster • GCASR'26 • 2026

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@misc{chowdhury25prevspost,
  title={Pre-RoPE versus Post-RoPE Trading Per-Step Compute for KVCache Survivability},
  author={Chowdhury, Zia Uddin and Cernuda, Jaime and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={Greater Chicago Area Systems Research (GCASR)},
  year={2026},
  month=may,
  address={Chicago, USA},
  note={Poster presentation}
}

Rich I/O-centric Derived Quantity Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing

Hua Xu, Jaime Cernuda, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun, Ana Gainaru, Scott Klasky, M. Taufer, N. Tan, K. Assogba, M. Rafique, Bogdan Nicolae, J. Teves, C. Brinker, L. Pouchard, Jay Lofstead

Conference • eScience'26 • 2026

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@inproceedings{xu2026richoperators,
  title={Rich I/O-centric Derived Quantity Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing},
  author={Xu, Hua and Cernuda, Jaime and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He and Gainaru, Ana and Klasky, Scott and Taufer, M. and Tan, N. and Assogba, K. and Rafique, M. and Nicolae, Bogdan and Teves, J. and Brinker, C. and Pouchard, L. and Lofstead, Jay},
  booktitle={22nd IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2026)},
  year={2026}
}

Characterizing the Behavior and Impact of KV Caching on Transformer Inferences under Concurrency

Jie Ye, Jaime Cernuda, Avinash Maurya, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas, Bogdan Nicolae

Conference • IPDPS'25 • 2025

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@inproceedings{ye2025characterizing,
  title={Characterizing the Behavior and Impact of KV Caching on Transformer Inferences under Concurrency},
  author={Ye, Jie and Cernuda, Jaime and Maurya, Avinash and Sun, Xian-He and Kougas, Anthony and Nicolae, Bogdan},
  booktitle={IPDPS'25: The 39th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium},
  year={2025}
}

DTIO: Data Stack for AI-driven Workflows

Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Bogdan Nicolae, Franck Cappello, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Conference • SSDBM'25 • 2025

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@inproceedings{10.1145/3733723.3733736,
  author = {Bateman, Keith Alex and Rajesh, Neeraj and Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Nicolae, Bogdan and Cappello, Franck and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  title = {DTIO: Data Stack for AI-driven Workflows},
  year = {2025},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management},
  doi = {10.1145/3733723.3733736}
}

Rich Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing

H. Xu, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun, Jaime Cernuda

Poster • SSDBM'25 • 2025

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@inproceedings{xu2025operators,
  title={Rich Operators for Advanced In Situ Processing},
  author={Xu, H. and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He and Cernuda, Jaime},
  booktitle={The 37th International Conference on Scalable Scientific Data Management (SSDBM 2025)},
  year={2025}
}

Towards an AI-driven scientific workflow

S. Islam, Jaime Cernuda, I. Muradli, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Poster • eScience'25 • 2025

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@inproceedings{islam2025aidriven,
  title={Towards an AI-driven scientific workflow},
  author={Islam, S. and Cernuda, Jaime and Muradli, I. and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={21st IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience '25)},
  year={2025}
}

DaYu: Optimizing Distributed Scientific Workflows by Decoding Dataflow Semantics and Dynamics

Meng Tang, Jaime Cernuda, Jie Ye, Luanzheng Guo, Nathan R. Tallent, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Conference • CLUSTER'24 • 2024

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@inproceedings{tang2024dayu,
  author = {Tang, Meng and Cernuda, Jaime and Ye, Jie and Guo, Luanzheng and Tallent, Nathan R. and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  title = {DaYu: Optimizing Distributed Scientific Workflows by Decoding Dataflow Semantics and Dynamics},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)},
  pages = {357--369},
  doi = {10.1109/CLUSTER59578.2024.00038}
}

Hades: A Context-Aware Active Storage Framework for Accelerating Large-Scale Data Analysis

Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Ana Gainaru, Scott Klasky, Jay Lofstead, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Conference • CCGRID'24 • 2024

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@inproceedings{cernuda2024hades,
  title={Hades: A Context-Aware Active Storage Framework for Accelerating Large-Scale Data Analysis},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Gainaru, Ana and Klasky, Scott and Lofstead, Jay and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={The 24th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing},
  pages = {577--586},
  year={2024},
  doi={DOI 10.1109/CCGrid59990.2024.00070}
}

HStream: A hierarchical data streaming engine for high-throughput scientific applications

Jaime Cernuda, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Conference • ICPP'24 • 2024

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@inproceedings{10.1145/3673038.3673150,
  author = {Cernuda, Jaime and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  title = {HStream: A hierarchical data streaming engine for high-throughput scientific applications},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing},
  pages = {231–240},
  doi = {10.1145/3673038.3673150}
}

Jarvis: Towards a Shared, User-Friendly, and Reproducible, I/O Infrastructure

Jaime Cernuda, Luke Logan, Nicholas Lewis, Suren Byna, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Workshop • PDSW'24 • 2024

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@inproceedings{cernuda2024jarvis,
  title={Jarvis: Towards a Shared, User-Friendly, and Reproducible, I/O Infrastructure},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Lewis, Nicholas and Byna, Suren and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={The International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW'24)},
  year={2024}
}

Viper: A High-Performance I/O Framework for Transparently Updating, Storing, and Transferring Deep Neural Network Models

Jie Ye, Jaime Cernuda, Neeraj Rajesh, Keith Bateman, Orcun Yildiz, Tom Peterka, Arnur Nigmetov, Dmitriy Morozov, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Conference • ICPP'24 • 2024

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@inproceedings{ye2024viper,
  title={Viper: A High-Performance I/O Framework for Transparently Updating, Storing, and Transferring Deep Neural Network Models},
  author={Ye, Jie and Cernuda, Jaime and Rajesh, Neeraj and Bateman, Keith and Yildiz, Orcun and Peterka, Tom and Nigmetov, Arnur and Morozov, Dmitriy and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 53rd International Conference on Parallel Processing},
  pages={812--821},
  year={2024}
}

LabStor: A Modular and Extensible Platform for Developing High-Performance, Customized I/O Stacks in Userspace

Luke Logan, Jaime Cernuda Garcia, Jay Lofstead, Xian-He Sun, Anthony Kougkas

Conference • SC'22 • 2022

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@inproceedings{logan2022labstor,
  title={LabStor: A Modular and Extensible Platform for Developing High-Performance, Customized I/O Stacks in Userspace},
  author={Logan, Luke and Garcia, Jaime Cernuda and Lofstead, Jay and Sun, Xian-He and Kougkas, Anthony},
  booktitle={2022 SC22: International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC)},
  pages={309--323},
  year={2022},
  organization={IEEE Computer Society}
}

LuxIO: Intelligent Resource Provisioning and Auto-Configuration for Storage Services

Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jaime Cernuda Garcia, Luke Logan, Jie Ye, Stephen Herbein, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Conference • HiPC'22 • 2022

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@INPROCEEDINGS{bateman2022luxio,
  author={Bateman, Keith and Rajesh, Neeraj and Cernuda Garcia, Jaime and Logan, Luke and Ye, Jie and Herbein, Stephen and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={2022 IEEE 29th International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC)}, 
  title={LuxIO: Intelligent Resource Provisioning and Auto-Configuration for Storage Services}, 
  year={2022},
  pages={246-255},
  doi={10.1109/HiPC56025.2022.00041}
}

Apollo: An ML-Assisted Real-Time Storage Resource Observer

Neeraj Rajesh, Hariharan Devarajan, Jaime Cernuda Garcia, Keith Bateman, Luke Logan, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Conference • HPDC'21 • 2021

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@inproceedings{10.1145/3431379.3460640,
  author = {Rajesh, Neeraj and Devarajan, Hariharan and Garcia, Jaime Cernuda and Bateman, Keith and Logan, Luke and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  title = {Apollo: An ML-Assisted Real-Time Storage Resource Observer},
  year = {2020},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 30th International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing},
  pages = {147–159},
  doi = {10.1145/3431379.3460640}
}

HFlow: A Dynamic and Elastic Multi-Layered Data Forwarder

Jaime Cernuda, Hariharan Devarajan, Luke Logan, Keith Bateman, Neeraj Rajesh, Jie Ye, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Conference • CLUSTER'21 • 2021

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@inproceedings{cernuda2021HFlow,
  title={HFlow: A Dynamic and Elastic Multi-Layered Data Forwarder},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Devarajan, Hariharan and Logan, Luke and Bateman, Keith and Rajesh, Neeraj and Ye, Jie and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE Cluster Conference 2021},
  pages={114--124},
  year={2021}
}

ChronoLog: A Distributed Shared Tiered Log Store with Time-based Data Ordering

Anthony Kougkas, Hariharan Devarajan, Keith Bateman, Jaime Cernuda, Neeraj Rajesh, Xian-He Sun

Conference • MSST'20 • 2020

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@inproceedings{kougkas2020chronolog,
  title={ChronoLog: A Distributed Shared Tiered Log Store with Time-based Data Ordering},
  author={Kougkas, Anthony and Devarajan, Hariharan and Bateman, Keith and Cernuda, Jaime and Rajesh, Neeraj and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST 2020)}
}

Efficient Data Eviction across Multiple Tiers of Storage

Jaime Cernuda, H. Trivino, Hariharan Devarajan, Anthony Kougkas, Xian-He Sun

Poster • SC'19 • 2019

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@inproceedings{cernuda2019eviction,
  title={Efficient Data Eviction across Multiple Tiers of Storage},
  author={Cernuda, Jaime and Trivino, H. and Devarajan, Hariharan and Kougkas, Anthony and Sun, Xian-He},
  booktitle={The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC'19)},
  year={2019}
}

Skills

Languages

C++PythonBashC

Frameworks & Tools

Claude CodeCrewAIA2AScikitLearnNumPyPandasKafka/PulsarFlinkOrangeFSLustreAWSMPI

Languages Spoken

EnglishSpanishGerman (basic)

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