UIUC Systems Research Seminar
Spring 2026

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
1/23 Agentic AI for Cloud System Reliability Yinfang Chen
1/30 Hardware-Rooted Secure LLM System Ziqi Zhang
2/6 No Speaker
2/13 Qual Practice:
Basilisk: Using Provenance Invariants to Automate Proofs of Undecidable Protocols (OSDI '25)
Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD (OSDI '25) 		Cathy Cai
2/20 Qual Practice:
Intent-Driven Network Management with Multi-Agent LLMs: The Confucius Framework (SIGCOMM '25)
FlowMoE: A Scalable Pipeline Scheduling Framework for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training (NeurIPS '25) 		Jackson Clark
2/27 Qual Practice Ayush Bansal
3/6 TBD
3/13 TBD
3/20 Spring Break Sleep/Food/Drink
3/27 No seminar today SOSP
4/3 TBD
4/10 TBD
4/17 TBD
4/24 TBD
5/1 TBD