UIUC Systems Research Seminar
Fall 2025

Friday 4-5pm, Siebel 1214 (direction)

UIUC Systems Reading Group is a weekly meetup for anyone interested in systems research at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

We discuss recent significant work (e.g., published at top-tier conferences), critique each other's projects, and identify new research directions/ideas.

Join us on Slack: uiuc-sysnet.slack.com

Please register CS 591 (SN) if you need one credit.

Date Topic Speaker
8/18 Special Seminar, 11am, Siebel 3124.
DBSP: Incremental Computation on Streams and Its Applications to Databases
Mihai Budiu
(Feldera)
8/29 Introduction and organization Jongyul Kim
Ramnatthan Alagappan
Aishwarya Ganesan
Indy Gupta
Tianyin Xu
9/5 Panel on Summer Internships: How to find useful ones and how to make the best use of them? Tianyin Xu (moderator)
Siyuan Chai
Ram Kesavan
Maleeha Masood
Bogdan Stoica
Jiyuan Zhang
9/12 STRATUS: A Multi-agent System for Autonomous Reliability Engineering of Modern Clouds Jackson Clark
Yiming Su
9/19 Qual Practice
Mowgli: Passively Learned Rate Control for Real-Time Video, NSDI, 2025
FineMem: Breaking the Allocation Overhead vs. Memory Waste Dilemma in Fine-Grained Disaggregated Memory Management, OSDI, 2025
Jiyuan Zhang
9/25 IIDAI Seminar, 11am, CSL B02 (talk info)
Application-Driven High Performance AI System Design
I-Hsin Chung
(IBM Research)
9/26 QoS: Quantum Operating System, OSDI 2025. Xiaojuan Ma
Tianyin Xu
10/3 Systems Research Mini Workshop (Reception starting at 1:30pm Siebel 2407)
2:00pm, Siebel 2405
Transparently Enhancing Applications through Operating System Architectures and Mechanisms (Jing Liu)
3:00pm, Siebel 2405
LiquidCache: Efficient Pushdown Caching for Cloud-Native Data Analytics (Xiangpeng Hao)
4:00pm, Siebel 2405
Fray: An Efficient General-Purpose Concurrency Testing Platform for the JVM (Ao Li)
Jing Liu (Microsoft Research)

Xiangpeng Hao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Ao (Leo) Li (CMU)
10/10 Bug finding at the mechanism levela> Bogdan "Bo" Stoica
10/17
10/24
10/31
11/7
11/14
11/21
11/28 Fall Break Sleep/Food/Drink
12/5