UIUC Systems Reading Group
Spring 2022

Friday 4-5pm, Zoom link will be sent over email

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
1/28 Introduction and organization Chaitanya Bhandari
Tianyin Xu
2/4 Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing
UCB Tech Report.
Chirag Shetty
2/11 Spanner: Google’s Globally-Distributed Database
OSDI, 2012.
Xiaojuan Ma
2/18 Practice Qual Presentation
AppInsight: Mobile App Performance Monitoring in the Wild
OSDI, 2012.
Lilia Tang
2/24 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Towards Predictable and Efficient Datacenter Storage
Huaicheng Li (CMU)
2/25 Practice Qual Presentation
SecureCore: A Multicore-based Intrusion Detection Architecture for Real-Time Embedded Systems
RTAS, 2013.
Jinghao Jia
2/28 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Optimizing CPU Efficiency and Tail Latency in Datacenters
Amy Ousterhout (UC Berkeley)
3/1 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Hyperscale Data Processing with Network-centric Designs
Qizhen Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
3/3 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Consistency and Performance in Distributed Storage Systems
Aishwarya Ganesan (VMware Research)
3/9 Special Seminar: 10:30--11:30am. Please join using this link.
Co-designing Distributed Systems and Storage Stacks for Improved Reliability
Ram Alagappan (VMware Research)
3/9 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Formal verification of a concurrent file system
Tej Chajed (MIT)
3/11 Enabling Users to Control their Internet Ammar Tahir
3/25 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Leveraging over-provisioned cloud networks for next-generation services
Rachee Singh (Microsoft Research)
3/30 Special Seminar: 1:00--2:00pm. Please join using this link.
Enable Intelligence on Billion Devices with Deep Learning
Ang Li (Duke University)
3/31 Special Seminar: 10:30--11:30am. Please join using this link.
Beyond ISAs: Striking a Balance between Generality and Specialization for AI/ML
Divya Mahajan (Microsoft Research)
3/31 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Machine Learning Parallelization Could Be Automated, Performant, and Easy-to-use
Hao Zhang (UC Berkeley)
3/31 ECE (500) Distinguished Colloquium: 4:00--5:00pm, ECEB 1002.
Integration, Specialization and Approximation: the “ISA” of Post-Moore Servers
Babak Falsafi (EPFL)
4/1 Special Seminar: 3:00--4:00pm. Please join using this link.
Learning with Feedback from Strategic Stakeholders: Algorithms and Systems
Kirthevasan Kandasamy (UC Berkeley)
4/5 CS Colloquium: 3:30--4:30pm. Siebel 2405.
Designing Serverless Platforms to Support Emerging Applications
Cristina L. Abad (ESPOL)
4/6 Special Seminar: 10:30--11:30am. Please join using this link.
Efficient and Accurate Systems for Querying Unstructured Data
Daniel Kang (Stanford)
4/8 Rebooting Virtual Memory with Midgard
ISCA, 2021.
Siyuan Chai
4/15 DeepXplore: Automated Whitebox Testing of Deep Learning Systems
SOSP, 2017.
Tyler Gu
4/22 Practice Talk
Forensic Analysis of Configuration-based Attacks
NDSS, 2022.
Adil Inam
4/29 Toward a Generic Fault Tolerance Technique for Partial Network Partitioning
OSDI, 2020.
Ragini Gupta
5/6 Special Seminar: 10:30--11:30am. Please join using this link.
Unblocking Performance Bottlenecks in Data Center Workloads
Heiner Litz (UC Santa Cruz)
5/11 Bonus Seminar: 3:30--4:30pm (the same Zoom link).
Making It Easier To Implement Correct Distributed Algorithms: A WIP
Dan Plyukhin
sys-net@cs.illinois.edu