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The Systems Seminar at EPFL hosts talks on computer systems research, broadly construed. Speakers come from a variety of groups within systems, both from EPFL, other academic institutions and industry.

Upcoming Seminars

Decoding Hidden Worlds: Unprecedented Sensing and Connectivity for Climate, Robotics, & Smart Environments Prof. Fadel Adib, MIT Monday, October 16, 2023 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Building the Tools to Program a Quantum Computer Charles Yuan, MIT Thursday, October 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
From Bits to Beyond: Crafting Efficient Memory Architectures for Next-Generation Systems Prof. Prashant Nair, University of British Columbia Thursday, October 12, 2023 @ 1:30 pm, Room BC 420
Next-Generation Optical Networks for Machine Learning Jobs Prof. Manya Ghobadi, MIT Friday, September 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Fast and Reliable Formal Verification of Smart Contracts with the Move Prover Prof. Meng Xu, University of Waterloo Thursday, August 3, 2023 @ 3:00 pm, Room BC 420
Junction: Rethinking Operating Systems for Datacenters Prof. Adam Belay, MIT Tuesday, July 11, 2023 @ 2:00 pm, Room BC 420
The Infrastructure to Build Large Language Models Dr. Vinay Pondenkandath, Cerebras Thursday, June 29, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Room BC 410
Computing Near Storage Prof. Arvind, MIT Monday, June 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Experiences with Learned Systems: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Prof. Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Thursday, June 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Simple and Fast Private Information Retrieval Prof. Henry-Corrigan Gibbs, MIT Monday, January 9, 2023 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Deterministic Low Latency Supercomputing at Scale Prof. Oskar Mencer, Maxeler Technologies, a Groq Company Friday, December 16, 2022 @ 2:15 pm, Room BC 410
Turbocharging Serverless Research with VHive Prof. Dmitrii Ustiugov, NTU Tuesday, October 11, 2022 @ 4:00 pm, Room BC 420
Optimizing Recursive Queries Prof. Dan Suciu, University of Washington Monday, September 26, 2022 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 410
Compressed Text with Random Access Prof. Peter Boncz, VU Amsterdam Wednesday, June 29, 2022 @ 2:00 pm, Room BC 420
Lightweight Techniques for Private Heavy Hitters Prof. Henry-Corrigan Gibbs, MIT Tuesday, June 7, 2022 @ 3:00 pm, Room BC 420
Scaling Deep Learning and Datacenter Applications with Programmable Networks Prof. Marco Canini, KAUST Wednesday, June 1, 2022 @ 11:30 am, Room BC 410
Building Trust between Users in Decentralized Systems Martijn de Vos, Delft University of Technology Tuesday, March 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Controlling (ML-based) Computing Systems Prof. Henry Hoffman, University of Chicago Thursday, March 10, 2022 @ 4:00 pm, Virtual
Securing Clouds and Webs -- A Tale of Bug Detection and Exploit Mitigation Prof. Manuel Egele, Boston University Thursday, December 16, 2021 @ 4:15 pm, Virtual
Sharing Knowledge on Sharing State Prof. Vijay Nagarajan, University of Edinburgh Thursday, November 11, 2021 @ 12:00 pm, Virtual
Experiencing a New Internet Architecture Prof. Adrien Perrig, ETH Zurich Monday, September 27, 2021 @ 4:15 pm, Virtual
Large-Scale Reconfigurable Optical Networks Prof. Manya Ghobadi, MIT Wednesday, June 30, 2021 @ 3:00 pm, Virtual
Red Belly: A Secure, Fair and Scalable Open Blockchain Prof. Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney Wednesday, May 12, 2021 @ 10:15 am, Virtual
Accelerating Biology and Medicine with Hardware Specialization Yatish Turakhia, UC San Diego Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm, Virtual
veribetrfs: Verification as a Practical Engineering Tool Dr. Jon Howell, VMware Research Group Friday, Jan 24, 2020 @ 10:15 am, Room BC 410
When Program Analyses may, or may not, solve your Security problems Dr. Daniele Cono D’Elia, Sapienza University of Rome Wednesday, December 18, 2019 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 410
Playing Reversible Pebble Games for Quantum Memory Management Dr. Mathias Soeken, EPFL Tuesday, November 19, 2019 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 410
Enabling Continuous Learning through Synaptic Plasticity in Hardware Prof. Tushar Krishna, Georgia Tech Friday, November 1, 2019 @ 2:15 pm, Room BC 420
OmniX - an OS architecture for omni-programmable systems Prof. Mark Silberstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Thursday, October 3, 2019 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Building Low-latency and Scalable Computing Systems Using Non-Volatile Memory Prof. Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wednesday, September 11, 2019 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Automatically Scalable Computation Prof. Margo Seltzer, University of British Columbia Wednesday, June 19, 2019 @ 10:15 am, Room BC 420
Batteryless Intermittent Computer Systems Prof. Brandon Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 2:15 pm, Room BC 420
High performance Operating Systems in the Datacenter Prof. Tom Anderson, University of Washington Wednesday, May 8, 2019 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 410
Is Advance Knowledge of Flow Sizes a Plausible Assumption? Vojislav Dukic, ETH Zurich Wednesday, February 6, 2019 @ 11:00 am, BC 410
Low Latency vs Scalability in Causal Consistency: Trade-offs and Protocols Diego Didona, Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL Tuesday, December 4, 2018 @ 2:15 pm, BC 420
It’s All About Energy: What it Takes to do a FLOP in Real Systems Peter Hsu, Visiting Scholar, EcoCloud Monday, November 19, 2018 @ 11:15 am, BC 420
Rethinking the GPU Execution Model Yunho Oh, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University Thursday, November 15, 2018 @ 11:15 am, BC 420
Two Roads to Parallelism: From Serial Code to Programming with STAPL Lawrence Rauchwerger, Eppright Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and the co-Director of the Parasol Lab Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 2:15 pm, BC 420
A filesystem attack vector for backdoors, rowhammer-like attacks, and more Anil Kurmus, IBM Research, Zurich Tuesday, October 23, 2018 @ 3:15 pm, BC 02
Scalability, Fairness, and Availability in Modern Storage Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Outlook Arash Tavakkol, RepRisk, Zurich Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 11:00 am, BC 420
τCFI: Type-Assisted Control Flow Integrity for x86-64 Binaries Paul Muntean, Technical University of Munich Tuesday, October 9, 2018 @ 3:15 pm, BC 02
A Sample of Software Engineering Research Opportunities at YouTube George Necula, Google Wednesday, October 3, 2018 @ 10:30 am, BC 410
Really Catching Click-Fraud Dr. Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research India Wenesday, April 29, 2015 @ 2:15 pm, BC 420
DeNovo: A Software-Driven Rethinking of the Memory Hierarchy Sarita Adve, Visiting Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, September 30, 2014 @ 4:00 pm, BC 420
Code-Pointer Integrity Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Dependable Systems Lab, EPFL Friday, September 26, 2014 @ 11:00am, Room BC 420
FaRM: Fast Remote Memory Dr. Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Tuesday, May 6, 2014 @ 2:00 pm, Room BC 410
Incremental Parallel and Distributed Systems Pramod Bhatotia, MPI-SWS Monday, May 5, 2014 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
S3K - Seeking Statement-Supporting top-K Witnesses Dr. Steffen Metzger, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics Wednesday, April 16, 2014 @ 12:00 pm, Room BC 410
Publish/Subscribe for Large-Scale Social Interaction: Design, Analysis Dr. Vinay Setty, University of Oslo Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 10:15am, Room BC 410
Diagnosing and Fixing Concurrency Bugs Guoliang Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 11:00am, Room BC 420
Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore Architectures Dr Parisa Jalili Marandi, University of Lugano Thursday, April 10, 2014 @ 10:15am, Room BC 410
DataFlow SuperComputing Prof. Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade Friday, April 4, 2014 @ 14:00pm, Room BC 420
Opportunities and Challenges in the Mobile World Dr. Marco Valerio Barbera, Sapienza University of Rome Monday, March 24, 2014 @ 10:00am, Room BC 410
CLyDE Mid-Flight: What we have learnt so far about the SSD-Based IO Stack Prof. Philippe Bonnet, IT University of Copenhagen Friday, February 14, 2014 @ 12:00pm, Room BC 410
Diagnosing Production-Run Concurrency-Bug Failures Prof. Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin Monday, February 3, 2014 @ 10:30 am, Room BC 420
2.5D and 3D IC --- The Status, The Challenges, and The Prospect Prof. Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, TSMC and Georgia Tech Friday, January 24, 2014 @ 12:00pm, Room BC 420

Past Seminars

Decoding Hidden Worlds: Unprecedented Sensing and Connectivity for Climate, Robotics, & Smart Environments Prof. Fadel Adib, MIT Monday, October 16, 2023 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Building the Tools to Program a Quantum Computer Charles Yuan, MIT Thursday, October 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
From Bits to Beyond: Crafting Efficient Memory Architectures for Next-Generation Systems Prof. Prashant Nair, University of British Columbia Thursday, October 12, 2023 @ 1:30 pm, Room BC 420
Next-Generation Optical Networks for Machine Learning Jobs Prof. Manya Ghobadi, MIT Friday, September 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Fast and Reliable Formal Verification of Smart Contracts with the Move Prover Prof. Meng Xu, University of Waterloo Thursday, August 3, 2023 @ 3:00 pm, Room BC 420
Junction: Rethinking Operating Systems for Datacenters Prof. Adam Belay, MIT Tuesday, July 11, 2023 @ 2:00 pm, Room BC 420
The Infrastructure to Build Large Language Models Dr. Vinay Pondenkandath, Cerebras Thursday, June 29, 2023 @ 11:00 am, Room BC 410
Computing Near Storage Prof. Arvind, MIT Monday, June 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Experiences with Learned Systems: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Prof. Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Thursday, June 1, 2023 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Simple and Fast Private Information Retrieval Prof. Henry-Corrigan Gibbs, MIT Monday, January 9, 2023 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Deterministic Low Latency Supercomputing at Scale Prof. Oskar Mencer, Maxeler Technologies, a Groq Company Friday, December 16, 2022 @ 2:15 pm, Room BC 410
Turbocharging Serverless Research with VHive Prof. Dmitrii Ustiugov, NTU Tuesday, October 11, 2022 @ 4:00 pm, Room BC 420
Optimizing Recursive Queries Prof. Dan Suciu, University of Washington Monday, September 26, 2022 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 410
Compressed Text with Random Access Prof. Peter Boncz, VU Amsterdam Wednesday, June 29, 2022 @ 2:00 pm, Room BC 420
Lightweight Techniques for Private Heavy Hitters Prof. Henry-Corrigan Gibbs, MIT Tuesday, June 7, 2022 @ 3:00 pm, Room BC 420
Scaling Deep Learning and Datacenter Applications with Programmable Networks Prof. Marco Canini, KAUST Wednesday, June 1, 2022 @ 11:30 am, Room BC 410
Building Trust between Users in Decentralized Systems Martijn de Vos, Delft University of Technology Tuesday, March 29, 2022 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
Controlling (ML-based) Computing Systems Prof. Henry Hoffman, University of Chicago Thursday, March 10, 2022 @ 4:00 pm, Virtual
Securing Clouds and Webs -- A Tale of Bug Detection and Exploit Mitigation Prof. Manuel Egele, Boston University Thursday, December 16, 2021 @ 4:15 pm, Virtual
Sharing Knowledge on Sharing State Prof. Vijay Nagarajan, University of Edinburgh Thursday, November 11, 2021 @ 12:00 pm, Virtual
Experiencing a New Internet Architecture Prof. Adrien Perrig, ETH Zurich Monday, September 27, 2021 @ 4:15 pm, Virtual
Large-Scale Reconfigurable Optical Networks Prof. Manya Ghobadi, MIT Wednesday, June 30, 2021 @ 3:00 pm, Virtual
Red Belly: A Secure, Fair and Scalable Open Blockchain Prof. Vincent Gramoli, University of Sydney Wednesday, May 12, 2021 @ 10:15 am, Virtual
Accelerating Biology and Medicine with Hardware Specialization Yatish Turakhia, UC San Diego Thursday, Nov 19, 2020 @ 4:00 pm, Virtual
veribetrfs: Verification as a Practical Engineering Tool Dr. Jon Howell, VMware Research Group Friday, Jan 24, 2020 @ 10:15 am, Room BC 410
When Program Analyses may, or may not, solve your Security problems Dr. Daniele Cono D’Elia, Sapienza University of Rome Wednesday, December 18, 2019 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 410
Playing Reversible Pebble Games for Quantum Memory Management Dr. Mathias Soeken, EPFL Tuesday, November 19, 2019 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 410
Enabling Continuous Learning through Synaptic Plasticity in Hardware Prof. Tushar Krishna, Georgia Tech Friday, November 1, 2019 @ 2:15 pm, Room BC 420
OmniX - an OS architecture for omni-programmable systems Prof. Mark Silberstein, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Thursday, October 3, 2019 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Building Low-latency and Scalable Computing Systems Using Non-Volatile Memory Prof. Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Wednesday, September 11, 2019 @ 4:15 pm, Room BC 420
Automatically Scalable Computation Prof. Margo Seltzer, University of British Columbia Wednesday, June 19, 2019 @ 10:15 am, Room BC 420
Batteryless Intermittent Computer Systems Prof. Brandon Lucia, Carnegie Mellon University Tuesday, May 21, 2019 @ 2:15 pm, Room BC 420
High performance Operating Systems in the Datacenter Prof. Tom Anderson, University of Washington Wednesday, May 8, 2019 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 410
Is Advance Knowledge of Flow Sizes a Plausible Assumption? Vojislav Dukic, ETH Zurich Wednesday, February 6, 2019 @ 11:00 am, BC 410
Low Latency vs Scalability in Causal Consistency: Trade-offs and Protocols Diego Didona, Postdoctoral Researcher at EPFL Tuesday, December 4, 2018 @ 2:15 pm, BC 420
It’s All About Energy: What it Takes to do a FLOP in Real Systems Peter Hsu, Visiting Scholar, EcoCloud Monday, November 19, 2018 @ 11:15 am, BC 420
Rethinking the GPU Execution Model Yunho Oh, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Yonsei University Thursday, November 15, 2018 @ 11:15 am, BC 420
Two Roads to Parallelism: From Serial Code to Programming with STAPL Lawrence Rauchwerger, Eppright Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Texas A&M University and the co-Director of the Parasol Lab Monday, November 12, 2018 @ 2:15 pm, BC 420
A filesystem attack vector for backdoors, rowhammer-like attacks, and more Anil Kurmus, IBM Research, Zurich Tuesday, October 23, 2018 @ 3:15 pm, BC 02
Scalability, Fairness, and Availability in Modern Storage Systems: Challenges, Solutions, and Outlook Arash Tavakkol, RepRisk, Zurich Friday, October 12, 2018 @ 11:00 am, BC 420
τCFI: Type-Assisted Control Flow Integrity for x86-64 Binaries Paul Muntean, Technical University of Munich Tuesday, October 9, 2018 @ 3:15 pm, BC 02
A Sample of Software Engineering Research Opportunities at YouTube George Necula, Google Wednesday, October 3, 2018 @ 10:30 am, BC 410
Really Catching Click-Fraud Dr. Saikat Guha, Microsoft Research India Wenesday, April 29, 2015 @ 2:15 pm, BC 420
DeNovo: A Software-Driven Rethinking of the Memory Hierarchy Sarita Adve, Visiting Professor in the School of Computer and Communication Sciences at EPFL and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, September 30, 2014 @ 4:00 pm, BC 420
Code-Pointer Integrity Volodymyr Kuznetsov, Dependable Systems Lab, EPFL Friday, September 26, 2014 @ 11:00am, Room BC 420
FaRM: Fast Remote Memory Dr. Aleksandar Dragojevic, Microsoft Research Tuesday, May 6, 2014 @ 2:00 pm, Room BC 410
Incremental Parallel and Distributed Systems Pramod Bhatotia, MPI-SWS Monday, May 5, 2014 @ 10:00 am, Room BC 420
S3K - Seeking Statement-Supporting top-K Witnesses Dr. Steffen Metzger, Max-Planck-Institute for Informatics Wednesday, April 16, 2014 @ 12:00 pm, Room BC 410
Publish/Subscribe for Large-Scale Social Interaction: Design, Analysis Dr. Vinay Setty, University of Oslo Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 10:15am, Room BC 410
Diagnosing and Fixing Concurrency Bugs Guoliang Jin, University of Wisconsin-Madison Friday, April 11, 2014 @ 11:00am, Room BC 420
Rethinking State-Machine Replication for Multicore Architectures Dr Parisa Jalili Marandi, University of Lugano Thursday, April 10, 2014 @ 10:15am, Room BC 410
DataFlow SuperComputing Prof. Veljko Milutinovic, University of Belgrade Friday, April 4, 2014 @ 14:00pm, Room BC 420
Opportunities and Challenges in the Mobile World Dr. Marco Valerio Barbera, Sapienza University of Rome Monday, March 24, 2014 @ 10:00am, Room BC 410
CLyDE Mid-Flight: What we have learnt so far about the SSD-Based IO Stack Prof. Philippe Bonnet, IT University of Copenhagen Friday, February 14, 2014 @ 12:00pm, Room BC 410
Diagnosing Production-Run Concurrency-Bug Failures Prof. Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin Monday, February 3, 2014 @ 10:30 am, Room BC 420
2.5D and 3D IC --- The Status, The Challenges, and The Prospect Prof. Hsien-Hsin Sean Lee, TSMC and Georgia Tech Friday, January 24, 2014 @ 12:00pm, Room BC 420

Full list of past seminars