research
Papers
Two papers on where AI systems spend their time, energy and water, and what it costs students to eat in Bengaluru. Both are readable here with interactive charts.
Systems Co-Design for Latency, Privacy, and Environmental Efficiency in Edge-Cloud LLM Inference
A survey of four coupled problems in serving LLMs: cold starts, GPU sharing, the energy and water cost of staying warm, and edge telemetry privacy. Includes a fleet-scale savings model you can adjust.
The Microeconomics of Student Subsistence
What mess fees, hidden living costs and plate waste add up to around two Bengaluru universities, with a waste calculator.
Each paper has a Summarize button at the top that condenses it into a few paragraphs.