Postgraduate research students

Kathleen West

Pronouns: she/her

Email: k.west.1@research.gla.ac.uk

Office: Room 502, Level 5, School of Computing Science, Sir Alywn Williams Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241

Research title: Carbon-Aware Execution of Scientific Workflows on Heterogeneous Clusters

Research summary

I am interested in reducing the carbon footprint of scientific workflow execution on heterogeneous clusters through the application of carbon-aware computing techniques like workload shifting and resource scaling - aiming to make use of estimated resource demands and runtimes from efficient profiling of scientific workflow tasks. 

Publications

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Jump to: 2026 | 2025 | 2024
Number of items: 7.

2026

Moawad, Youssef, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Bountris, Vasilis, Thamm, Philipp, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) How Accurately Can the Energy Use of Spark Applications Be Estimated Based on Resource Utilisation? In: 6th International Workshop on Performance and Energy Efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (PECS 2026), Pisa, Italy, 24 Aug 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Bountris, Vasilis, Thamm, Philipp, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) Augur: Pre-Execution Energy Prediction for Workflow Tasks in Heterogeneous Clusters. In: IEEE CLOUD 2026, Sydney, Australia, 13-18 Jul 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Thamm, Philipp, Mohammadi, Somayeh, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Reinert, Knut, Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 and Leser, Ulf (2026) Nf-PEAK: Process-Based Energy Attribution for Nextflow Workflows on Kubernetes Clusters. In: IEEE CLOUD 2026, Sydney, Australia, 13-18 Jul 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Bader, Jonathan, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Becker, Soeren, Kulagina, Svetlana, Lehmann, Fabian, Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Meyerhenke, Henning and Kao, Odej (2026) Predicting the performance of scientific workflow tasks for cluster resource management: an overview of the state of the art. In: Ulf, Leser, Hilbrich, Marcus, Wilkinson, Sean R. and Ferreira da Silva, Rafael (eds.) Workflow Systems for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis. Berlin Universities Publishing, pp. 431-453. ISBN 9783987810671 (doi: 10.14279/depositonce-25831)

2025

West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Lehmann, Fabian, Bountris, Vasilis, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2025) Exploring the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows. In: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid2025), Tromsø, Norway, 19-22 May 2025, pp. 325-328. ISBN 9798331509347 (doi: 10.1109/CCGRID64434.2025.00056)

Bader, Jonathan, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Becker, Soeren, Kulagina, Svetlana, Lehmann, Fabian, Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Meyerhenke, Henning and Kao, Odej (2025) Predicting the performance of scientific workflow tasks for cluster resource management: an overview of the state of the art. arXiv, 2504.20867. (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.20867)

2024

Barr, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673, Binnie, Lewis, Jacobs, Elizabeth, Pavlou, Kristina and West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241 (2024) Understanding the Role Models that Inspire Women to Study Computing Science. In: United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER 2024), Manchester, UK, 5-6 September 2024, ISBN 9798400711770 (doi: 10.1145/3689535.3689557)

This list was generated on Fri Aug 14 02:53:37 2026 BST.
Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 7.

Articles

Bader, Jonathan, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Becker, Soeren, Kulagina, Svetlana, Lehmann, Fabian, Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Meyerhenke, Henning and Kao, Odej (2025) Predicting the performance of scientific workflow tasks for cluster resource management: an overview of the state of the art. arXiv, 2504.20867. (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2504.20867)

Book Sections

Bader, Jonathan, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Becker, Soeren, Kulagina, Svetlana, Lehmann, Fabian, Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503, Meyerhenke, Henning and Kao, Odej (2026) Predicting the performance of scientific workflow tasks for cluster resource management: an overview of the state of the art. In: Ulf, Leser, Hilbrich, Marcus, Wilkinson, Sean R. and Ferreira da Silva, Rafael (eds.) Workflow Systems for Large-Scale Scientific Data Analysis. Berlin Universities Publishing, pp. 431-453. ISBN 9783987810671 (doi: 10.14279/depositonce-25831)

Conference Proceedings

Moawad, Youssef, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Bountris, Vasilis, Thamm, Philipp, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) How Accurately Can the Energy Use of Spark Applications Be Estimated Based on Resource Utilisation? In: 6th International Workshop on Performance and Energy Efficiency in Concurrent and Distributed Systems (PECS 2026), Pisa, Italy, 24 Aug 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Bountris, Vasilis, Thamm, Philipp, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2026) Augur: Pre-Execution Energy Prediction for Workflow Tasks in Heterogeneous Clusters. In: IEEE CLOUD 2026, Sydney, Australia, 13-18 Jul 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

Thamm, Philipp, Mohammadi, Somayeh, West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Reinert, Knut, Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 and Leser, Ulf (2026) Nf-PEAK: Process-Based Energy Attribution for Nextflow Workflows on Kubernetes Clusters. In: IEEE CLOUD 2026, Sydney, Australia, 13-18 Jul 2026, (Accepted for Publication)

West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241, Lehmann, Fabian, Bountris, Vasilis, Leser, Ulf, Elkhatib, Yehia ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4639-436X and Thamsen, Lauritz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3755-1503 (2025) Exploring the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows. In: 25th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid2025), Tromsø, Norway, 19-22 May 2025, pp. 325-328. ISBN 9798331509347 (doi: 10.1109/CCGRID64434.2025.00056)

Barr, Matthew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-0673, Binnie, Lewis, Jacobs, Elizabeth, Pavlou, Kristina and West, Kathleen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4820-7241 (2024) Understanding the Role Models that Inspire Women to Study Computing Science. In: United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research (UKICER 2024), Manchester, UK, 5-6 September 2024, ISBN 9798400711770 (doi: 10.1145/3689535.3689557)

This list was generated on Fri Aug 14 02:53:37 2026 BST.

Prior publications

Works published at other institutions

Article

Kathleen West, Youssef Moawad, Fabian Lehmann, Vasilis Bountris, Ulf Leser, Yehia Elkhatib, Lauritz Thamsen (2026) A Systematic Evaluation of the Potential of Carbon-Aware Execution for Scientific Workflows Future Generation Computer Systems Crossref. (doi: 10.1016/j.future.2026.108453)

Supervisors

Teaching

Tutoring

  • 2023/24 Semester 2 - Information Retrieval (H) + (M)
  • 2023/24 Semester 2 - Algorithmics (GA Y2)
  • 2023/24 Semester 1 - How to Learn a New Language (GA Y1)
  • 2023/24 Semester 1 - Foundations of Professional Software Engineering (GA Y1)

GA = Graduate Apprenticeship

Additional information

I previously completed my BSc Honours Degree in Software Engineering (Graduate Apprenticeship) at the University of Glasgow, working as a Software Engineer at Barclays.