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.

Area Spring Retreat
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, 2025.
Achieving Low-Latency Graph-Based Vector Search via Aligning Best-First Search Algorithm with SSD, OSDI, 2025. 		Cathy Cai
2/18 CSL 75th Anniversary Distinguished Lecture Series, 2-3pm, CSL B02
TBD 		Andrew Chien
(University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratories)
2/19 ECE Distinguished Colloquium Series, 4-5pm, 1002 Grainger Auditorium
Directions in Deep Learning Hardware 		William Dally
(Nvidia and Stanford University)
2/20 Qual Practice
Intent-Driven Network Management with Multi-Agent LLMs: The Confucius Framework, SIGCOMM, 2025.
FlowMoE: A Scalable Pipeline Scheduling Framework for Distributed Mixture-of-Experts Training, NeurIPS, 2025. 		Jackson Clark
2/27 NCSA Colloquium Series, 3-4pm, 1040 NCSA
Supercomputing at the Crossroads 		Salman Habib
(Argonne National Laboratories)
2/27 Qual Practice
Architecting Distributed Quantum Computers: Design Insights from Resource Estimation, arXiv:2508.19160, 2025.
CacheGen: KV Cache Compression and Streaming for Fast Large Language Model Serving, SIGCOMM, 2024. 		Ayush Bansal
3/6 ML for Systems in the Real World: Challenges Beyond Training the Models Jiayi (Jane) Chen
(UT Austin)
3/13 SKI: Exposing Kernel Concurrency Bugs through Systematic Schedule Exploration, OSDI, 2014. Wentao Zhang
3/20 Spring Break Sleep/Food/Drink
3/27 No seminar today SOSP
4/3 TBD
4/10 Talk dry-run -- invited speaker at the 6th NSF-ChameleonCloud Meeting on Applying AI to Accelerate Scientific Reproducibility and Replicability (NCAR, Boulder CO) Bogdan "Bo" Stoica
4/17 TBD
4/24 All
5/1 TBD