# Brian Setz

> Brian Setz is the lead of the Digital Lab, an initiative of the Computing Science department of the University of Groningen to innovate education. He holds a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Stuttgart, and a masters degree in Computing Science from the University of Groningen.

## About

- [Homepage](https://briansetz.nl/): Biography, research interests, contact, and all sections
- [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=iRFNcp8AAAAJ): Citation metrics and full bibliography
- [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9750-2888): Persistent researcher identifier with publication list
- [ResearchGate](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Brian_Setz): Research profile and publication downloads

## Publications

- [Container-level Energy Observability in Kubernetes Clusters](https://doi.org/10.1109/ICT4S68164.2025.00016): B. Pijnacker, B. Setz, V. Andrikopoulos. International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, 2025
- [Understanding the Energy Consumption of Cloud-native Software Systems](https://doi.org/10.1145/3676151.3719371): L. Andringa, B. Setz, V. Andrikopoulos. ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering, 2025
- [A guidebook for sustainability in laboratories](https://doi.org/10.59877/FCXC3888): T. Freese, R. Kat, S. D. Lanooij, T. C. Böllersen, C. M. De Roo, N. Elzinga, M. Beatty, B. Setz, R. R. Weber, I. Malta, T. B. Gandek, A. Krikken, P. Fodran, R. Pollice, M. M. Lerch. ChemRxiv, 2024
- [Enough Hot Air: The Role of Immersion Cooling](https://doi.org/10.1186/s42162-023-00269-0): K. Haghshenas, B. Setz, Y. Bloch, M. Aiello. Energy Informatics, 2023
- [Energy Smart Buildings: Parallel Uniform Cost-Search with Energy Storage and Generation](https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2211.08969): B. Setz, K. Haghshenas, M. Aiello. arXiv, 2022
- [CO2 Emission Aware Scheduling for Deep Neural Network Training Workloads](https://doi.org/10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020544): K. Haghshenas, B. Setz, Y. Bloch, M. Aiello. IEEE International Conference on Big Data, 2022
- [A Comparison of Open-Source Home Automation Systems](https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3136025): B. Setz, S. Graef, D. Ivanova, A. Tiessen, M. Aiello. IEEE Access, 2021
- [Towards Real-Time Monitoring of Data Centers using Edge Computing](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44769-4_11): B. Setz, M. Aiello. European Conference On Service-Oriented And Cloud Computing, 2020
- [A Data-Driven Approach to Monitoring Colocation Data Centers](https://doi.org/10.1109/DataCom.2019.00043): B. Setz, A. Lazovik, M. Aiello. IEEE International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing, 2019
- [Mining Sequential Patterns for Appliance Usage Prediction](https://doi.org/10.5220/0006669500230033): M. Kalksma, B. Setz, A. Rizky Pratama, I. Georgievski, M. Aiello. International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, 2018
- [Best Practices for Sustainable Data Centers](https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2018.053891338): V. Dinesh Reddy, B. Setz, G. Subrahmanya V.R.K. Rao, G.R. Gangadharan, M. Aiello. IEEE IT Professional, 2018
- [Planning meets activity recognition: Service coordination for intelligent buildings](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmcj.2017.02.008): I. Georgievski, T. A. Nguyen, F. Nizamic, B. Setz, A. Lazovik, M. Aiello. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2017
- [Metrics for Sustainable Data Centers](https://doi.org/10.1109/TSUSC.2017.2701883): V. Dinesh Reddy, B. Setz, G. Subrahmanya V.R.K. Rao, G.R. Gangadharan, M. Aiello. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2017
- [Power Management of Personal Computers based on User Behaviour](https://doi.org/10.5220/0005762604090416): B. Setz, F. Nizamic, A. Lazovik, M. Aiello. International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, 2016
- [Sleepy, the Smart Activity Monitoring and Energy Saving Solution for Personal Computers](https://briansetz.nl/docs/setz2014sleepy.pdf): B. Setz, F. Nizamic, T. A. Nguyen, A. Lazovik, M. Aiello. Proceedings of the Erasmus Energy Forum 2014, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2014

## Projects

- [NextGenSmart DC](https://www.iaas.uni-stuttgart.de/abteilung-service-computing/projekte/nextgensmartdc/): The NextGenSmart DC project's premise is that the application of state-of-the-art ICT tools and techniques can improve...
- [SENSible hEating Operation Solutions](https://briansetz.nl/#projects): Computer-based control of the heating system of buildings that have still manual control of radiators. The solution...
- [Sustainable Buildings](https://www.sustainablebuildings.nl/): Our first Proof-of-Concept project is "The Bernoulliborg – The building of Sustainability". In this project, we apply...
- [Green Mind Award](https://briansetz.nl/#projects): An extremely comprehensive project with advantages such as water conservation, responsible waste recycling, smart...

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