UIUC Systems Research Seminar
Spring 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
1/24 Introduction and organization Jongyul Kim
Ramnatthan Alagappan
Aishwarya Ganesan
Indy Gupta
Tianyin Xu
1/31 Practice job talk
Improving Reliability of Modern Cloud Systems with Verification in the Loop
Xudong Sun
2/6 4pm, 2405 Siebel Center
ILLIXR: An End-to-End Systems Research Approach to Enable the Era of Immersive Computing
Qinjun Jiang et al.
2/7 HPCA practice talk
SkyByte: Architecting An Efficient Memory-Semantic CXL-based SSD with OS and Hardware Co-design
Haoyang Zhang
2/14 Practice job talk
Towards Building a Learning-Based Storage Ecosystem and Beyond
Jinghan Sun
2/21 Practice job talk
Advancing wireless system beyond limits: in-body and outer space
Bill Tao
2/26 CAP Seminar, 3:30pm, Siebel 2405. (talk info)
Domain-Specific Software, Hardware, and their Composition
Fred Kjolstad
(Stanford University)
2/28 Qual exam practice
Verus: A Practical Foundation for Systems Verification, SOSP, 2024.
Wentao Zhang
3/7 Cancelled Shumo Chu
(NEBRA Labs)
3/14 ASPLOS practice talk
M5: Mastering Page Migration and Memory Management for CXL-based Tiered Memory Systems
Yan Sun
3/21 Spring Break Sleep/Food/Drink
3/26 The Utpal Banerjee Distinguished Lecture in High Performance Computing, 3:30pm, NCSA auditorium. (talk info)
Setting a Course for Post-Moore Software Performance
Charles Leiserson
(MIT)
3/28 ASPLOS practice talk
Coach: Exploiting Temporal Patterns for All-Resource Oversubscription in Cloud Platforms
Benjamin Reidys
4/2 10:00am, B02 CSL
Co-design for Intelligence: Rethinking Abstractions for Scalable and Adaptive Systems
Amir Yazdanbakhsh
(Google)
4/4 No Seminar today (too many talks)
4/9 Distinguished Lecture, 3:30pm, 2405 SC (talk info)
Allow Me To Transfer Part Of My Genius To You While Still Keeping Some Of It For Myself So That I Can Defeat You If Necessary
James Mickens
(Harvard University)
4/11 3:00-6:00pm, CSL 301 (with Free Food!)
IIDAI ITBench Workshop (anyone is welcome)
Saurabh Jha
Rohan R. Arora
(IBM Research)
4/14 Special Seminar, 10:00am (talk info)
Performance Interfaces for Systems Software and Hardware
Rishabh Iyer
(UC Berkeley)
4/16 Special Seminar, 2:30pm (talk info)
Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives
Dave Patterson
Andy Konwinski
(UC Berkeley)
4/18 No Seminar today (too many talks)
4/21 Special Seminar, 10:00am (talk info)
Co-Design for the AI Era: From Traditional Systems to Generative AI
Nishil Talati
(University of Michigan)
4/23 Distinguished Lecture, 3:30pm, 2405 SC (talk info)
Efficient LLMs: From Model Innovation to Customized Acceleration
Jason Cong
(UCLA)
4/25 FSE tutorial practice
AIOpsLab in Action: An Open Platform for AIOps Research
Jackson Clark
5/2