University of Michigan Central Campus - venue for ACM SIGMETRICS 2026

ACM SIGMETRICS 2026

Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
June 8-12, 2026

Conference Program

Tutorial

Monday

June 8, 2026

7:30 am REGISTRATION2nd floor crossing7:30am-8:30am
8:00 am
8:30 am Light breakfastRogel Ballroom8:30am-9:00am
9:00 am Causal Survival AnalysisPendleton90 min9:00am-10:30am Efficient Large Language Model Inference2210 A90 min9:00am-10:30am
9:30 am
10:00 am
10:30 am Coffee break: Idea Hub -- 30 min10:30am-11:00am
11:00 am Causal Survival AnalysisPendleton90 min11:00am-12:30pm Efficient Large Language Model Inference2210 A90 min11:00am-12:30pm
11:30 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm LunchRogel Ballroom1 hr12:30pm-1:30pm
1:00 pm
1:30 pm Controlled Generation for Large Foundation Models1.5 hrs1:30-3pm Structure Exploiting Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Networked Systems1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm Break 30 min3:00 - 3:30pm
3:30 pm Mentoring WorkshopPendleton2 hours3:30pm-5:30pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm TPC dinnerRogel Ballroom5:30pm-7:30pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm

Main Conference

Tuesday - Thursday

June 9-11, 2026

June 9, 2026 June 10, 2026 June 11, 2026
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
7:30 am REGISTRATION2nd floor crossing7:30am-8:15am REGISTRATION2nd floor crossing7:30am-8:30am REGISTRATION2nd floor crossing7:30am-8:30am
8:00 am
Light breakfastRogel Ballroom8:15am-8:45am
8:30 am Light breakfastRogel Ballroom8:30am-9:00am Light breakfastRogel Ballroom8:30am-9:00am
Opening remarks:Pendleton8:45am-9:00am
9:00 am Keynote 1: Vishal Misra, Columbia UniversityPendleton1 hr9:00am-10:00am Sigmetrics Achievement AwardAlexandre Proutiere, KTHPendleton1 hr9:00am-10:00am Keynote 3: Steve Teig, AmazonPendleton1 hr9:00am-10:00am
9:30 am
10:00 am Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min10:00am-10:30am Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min10:00am-10:30am Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min10:0am-10:30am
10:30 am Session 1APendleton2 hours10:30am-12:30pm Session 1B2210ABC2 hours10:30am-12:30pm Session 1CPond (1st flr)2 hours10:30am-12:30pm Session 3APendleton2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 3B2210ABC2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 3CPond (1st flr)2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 3DLocation TBD2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 5APendleton2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 5B2210ABC2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 5CPond (1st flr)2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm Session 5DLocation TBD2 hrs10:30am-12:30pm
11:00 am
11:30 am
12:00 pm
12:30 pm "LunchRogel Ballroom1 hr "12:30pm-1:30pm LunchRogel Ballroom1 hr12:30pm-1:30pm LunchRogel Ballroom1 hr12:30pm-1:30pm
1:00 pm
SRC (Undergraduate)1:15 - 2:30 pm SRC (Graduate)1:15 - 2:30 pm
1:30 pm Sigmetrics Rising Star Research AwardSangeetha Abdu Jyothi, UC IrvinePendleton1 hr1:30pm-2:30pm Session 4APendleton2.5 hrs1:30pm-4:00pm Session 4B2210ABC2.5 hrs1:30pm-4:00pm Session 4CPond (1st flr)2.5 hrs1:30pm-4:00pm Industry PanelPendleton1:30pm-2:30pm
2:00 pm
2:30 pm Session 2APendleton1 hr2:30pm-3:30pm Session 2B2210ABC1 hr2:30pm-3:30pm Session 2CPond (1st flr)1 hr2:30pm-3:30pm Session 6APendleton1 hr2:30pm-3:30pm Session 6B2210ABC1 hr2:30pm-3:30pm Session 6CPond (1st flr)1 hr2:30pm-3:30pm
3:00 pm
3:30 pm Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min3:30pm-4:00pm Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min3:30pm-4:00pm
4:00 pm Business meetingPendleton1.5 hrs4:00pm-5:30pm Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min4:00pm-4:30pm Session 7APendleton1.5 hrs4:00pm-5:30pm Session 7B2210ABC1.5 hrs4:00pm-5:30pm Session 7CPond (1st flr)1.5 hrs4:00-5:30pm
4:30 pm Keynote 2: Adam Kalai, OpenAI Pendleton1 hr4:30pm-5:30pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm Reception & Poster session(Student Posters and Student Research Competition)Idea Hub & 2nd floor crossing2.5 hrs5:30pm-8:00pm BanquetLocation: Detroit Institute of ArtsBus pick-up at 5:30pm5:30pm-9:30pm Closing remarks:Pendleton5:30pm-5:45pm
6:00 pm
6:30 pm
7:00 pm
7:30 pm
8:00 pm
8:30 pm
9:00 pm

Workshop

Friday

June 12, 2026

7:30 am REGISTRATION2nd floor crossing7:30am-8:30am
8:00 am
8:30 am Light breakfastRogel Ballroom8:30am-9:00am
9:00 am Workshop 1Pendleton2nd floor1 hr9:00am-10:0am Workshop 22210A2nd floor1 hr9:00am-10:00am Workshop 32210 B2nd floor1 hr9:00am-10:00am Workshop 42210 C2nd floor1 hr9:00am-10:00am Workshop 5Pond1st floor1 hr9:00am-10:00am Workshop 6Wolverine3rd floor1 hr9:00am-10:00am Workshop 7TBD1 hrMAMA9:00am-10:00am
9:30 am
10:00 am Coffee breakIdea Hub 30 min10:0am-10:30am
10:30 am Workshop 1Pendleton2nd floor1.5 hrs10:30am-12noon Workshop 22210A2nd floor1.5 hrs10:30am-12noon Workshop 32210 B2nd floor1.5 hrs10:30am-12noon Workshop 42210 C2nd floor1.5 hrs10:30am-12noon Workshop 5Pond1st floor1.5 hrs10:30am-12noon Workshop 6Wolverine3rd floor1.5 hrs10:30am-12noon Workshop 7TBD1.5 hrMAMA10:30am-12noon
11:00 am
11:30 am
12:00 pm LunchRogel Ballroom12noon-1:30pm
12:30 pm
1:00 pm Workshop 7TBD2hrMAMA1:00pm-3:00pm
1:30 pm Workshop 1Pendleton2nd floor1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm Workshop 22210A2nd floor1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm Workshop 32210 B2nd floor1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm Workshop 42210 C2nd floor1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm Workshop 5Pond1st floor1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm Workshop 6Wolverine3rd floor1.5 hrs1:30pm-3:00pm
2:00 pm
2:30 pm
3:00 pm Coffee breakIdea Hub3:00pm-3:30pm
3:30 pm Workshop 1Pendleton2nd floor1.5 hrs3:30pm-5:00pm Workshop 22210A2nd floor1.5 hrs3:30pm-5:00pm Workshop 32210 B2nd floor1.5 hrs3:30pm-5:00pm Workshop 42210 C2nd floor1.5 hrs3:30pm-5:00pm Workshop 5Pond1st floor1.5 hrs3:30pm-5:00pm Workshop 6Wolverine3rd floor1.5 hrs3:30pm-5:00pm Workshop 7TBD2.5hrMAMA3:30pm-6:00pm
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
5:30 pm

Industry Panel

Industry Panel

Network, Hardware, and Systems Bottlenecks in Modern AI: Can SIGMETRICS help?

Moderator: Ramesh K. Sitaraman: Chief Consulting Scientist (Akamai Tech) and Distinguished University Professor & Associate Dean (UMass Amherst)

  • Ran Ben-Basat
    Associate Professor at UCL and Affiliated Researcher at Broadcom
  • Nada Golmie
    NIST Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology
  • Steven Teig
    Vice-President and Distinguished Engineer, Amazon

Talk Sessions

Session Details

June 9, 2026

Tuesday

Session 1A: Online learning

Pendleton · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hours

  • Learning to Allocate Reusable Resources under Stochastic Rewards and Durations
    Ativ Joshi, Qingsong Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (UMass Amherst)
  • Offline Local Search for Online Stochastic Bandits
    Gerdus Benade (Boston University); Rathish Das (University of Houston); Thomas Lavastida (University of Texas at Dallas)
  • Heterogeneous Multi-agent Multi-armed Bandit on Stochastic Block Models
    Mengfan Xu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Liren Shan (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago); Fatemeh Ghaffari, Xuchuang Wang (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Xutong Liu (Carnegie Mellon University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • A Unified Framework for Online Combinatorial Allocation of Reusable Resources under Endogenous Deterioration
    Qingsong Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (UMass Amherst)

Session 1B: Blockchain 1

2210ABC · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hours

  • Geographical Centralization Resilience in Ethereum's Block-Building Paradigms
    Sen Yang (Yale University, IC3); Burak Öz (Flashbots); Fei Wu (King's College London); Fan Zhang (Yale University, IC3)
  • Beyond Single-Tokenomics: How Farcaster’s Pluralistic Incentives Reshape Social Networking
    Wen Yang, Qiming Ye (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University); Saidu Sokoto (City St George’s, University of London); Leonhard Balduf (TU Darmstadt); Michał Król (City St George’s, University of London); Gareth Tyson (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))
  • Cross-Chain Arbitrage: The Next Frontier of MEV in Decentralized Finance
    Burak Öz (Technical University of Munich); Christof Ferreira Torres (INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), University of Lisbon); Christoph Schlegel, Bruno Mazorra (Flashbots); Jonas Gebele, Filip Rezabek, Florian Matthes (Technical University of Munich)
  • Multiple Sides of 36 Coins: Measuring Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure Across Cryptocurrencies
    Lucianna Kiffer (IMDEA Networks); Lioba Heimbach, Yann Vonlanthen (ETH Zurich); Dennis Trautwein (University of Göttingen); Oliver Gasser (IPinfo)

Session 1C: LLM benchmarking and caching

Pond (1st flr) · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hours

  • Benchmarking and Characterization of Large Language Model Inference on Apple Silicon
    Afsara Benazir, Felix Xiaozhu Lin (University of Virginia)
  • WISP: Waste- and Interference-Suppressed Distributed Speculative LLM Serving at the Edge via Dynamic Drafting and SLO-Aware Batching
    Xiangchen Li, Jiakun Fan (Virginia Tech); Qingyuan Wang (University College Dublin); Dimitrios Spatharakis (National Technical University of Athens); Saeid Ghafouri (Queen’s University Belfast); Hans Vandierendonck (Queens University Belfast); Deepu John (University College Dublin); Bo Ji, Ali R. Butt, Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Virginia Tech)
  • UniCache: Unifying Prefix Cache Eviction for Heterogeneous LLM Serving Workloads
    Bei Ouyang (Rice University); Yifan Qiao (UC Berkeley); Jiarong Xing (Rice University)
  • Mapping the Landscape of LLM Deployment in the Wild: Prevalence, Patterns, and Perils
    Xinyi Hou, Jiahao Han, Yanjie Zhao, Shenao Wang, Haoyu Wang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

Session 2A: Distributed learning

Pendleton · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

  • SemanticDFL: Similarity-Aware Pull-based Personalized Decentralized Federated Learning
    Javad Dogani (IMDEA Networks Institute); Mostafa Khastkhodaei, Farshad Khunjush (Shiraz University); Nikolaos Laoutaris (IMDEA Networks Institute)
  • Analyzing Symbolic Properties for DRL Agents in Systems and Networking
    Mohammad Zangooei (University of Waterloo); Jannis Weil, Amr Rizk (Leibniz University Hannover); Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo, Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)

Session 2B: Caching

2210ABC · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

  • Performance Analysis of the Randomized SIEVE/CLOCK cache replacement algorithm
    Yirong Wang, Peter Desnoyers (Northeastern University); Benny Van Houdt (University of Antwerp)
  • EviDex: Provenance-Weighted Evidence-Path Indexing for Fresh and Auditable Retrieval under Continuous Updates
    Rui Li, Shuang Cao, Ruihua Liu, Alexandre Duprey (Hill Research)

Session 2C: Networking 1 : congestion control

Pond (1st flr) · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

  • Can Multipath TCP Congestion Control do better without adhering to its First Design Principle?
    Xuan Wang (The University of Texas at Arlington); Hao Che (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of Texas at Arlington); Zhijun Wang (University of Texas at Arlington); Hong Jiang (UT Arlington)
  • PEMI: Transparent Performance Enhancements for QUIC
    Jie Zhang (Tsinghua University); Lei Zhang (Zhongguancun Laboratory); Ziyi Wang (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications); Chenxiang Sun (Tsinghua University); Yuming Hu (University of Minnesota -- Twin Cities); Xiaohui Xie, Zeqi Lai, Yong Cui (Tsinghua University)

June 10, 2026

Wednesday

Session 3A: Queueing and Scheduling

Pendleton · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Higher-Order Approximations of Sojourn Times in M/G/1 Queues via Stein’s Method
    Bihan Chatterjee, Siva Theja Maguluri, Debankur Mukherjee (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  • Empirical Gittins for data-driven M/G/1 scheduling with arbitrary job size distributions
    Shefali Ramakrishna, Amit Harlev, Ziv Scully (Cornell University)
  • A Tale of Two Traffics: Optimizing Tail Latency in the Light-Tailed M/G/k
    George Yu, Amit Harlev, Reevu Adakroy, Ziv Scully (Cornell University)
  • Outperforming Multiserver SRPT at All Loads
    Izzy Grosof, Daniela Hurtado Lange (Northwestern University)

Session 3B: Storage & memory

2210ABC · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Optimizing Storage Overhead of User Behavior Log for ML-embedded Mobile Apps
    Chen Gong, Yan Zhuang, Zhenzhe Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Yiliu Chen, Sheng Wang (ByteDance); Fan Wu, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  • Experimental Study on System-Level Performance Impact of Read Disturbance in Modern SSDs
    Yonggon Park, Hyunuk Cho (POSTECH); Onur Mutlu (ETH Zurich); Sungjin Lee (POSTECH); Jisung Park (POSTECH (Pohang University of Science and Technology))
  • cPMEM: A Design of Byte-Addressable Persistent Memory with Compute Express Link for Data Center Applications
    Gaocong Liu, Mengting Lu, Kun Wang, Feng Zhu (Alibaba Cloud); Shu Li (Alibaba Group)
  • CAPSULE: A Storage Prefetcher Harnessing Spatio-Temporal Locality for Cloud-Scale Workloads
    Agung Rahmat Ramadhan, Seehwan Yoo, Jongmoo Choi (Dankook University)

Session 3C: Learning-augmented and sequential learning

Pond (1st flr) · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Sequential Fair Allocation With Replenishments: A Little Envy Goes An Exponentially Long WayBest Paper Award Finalist
    Chido Onyeze (Cornell University); Sean R. Sinclair (Northwestern University); Chamsi Hssaine (University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business); Siddhartha Banerjee (Cornell University)
  • Prediction-Specific Design of Learning-Augmented Algorithms
    Sizhe Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen); Nicolas Christianson (Stanford University); Tongxin Li (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen)
  • Online Smoothed Demand Management
    Adam Lechowicz (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Nicolas Christianson (Stanford University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Adam Wierman (California Institute of Technology); Prashant Shenoy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
  • Green Bin Packing
    Jackson Bibbens, Cooper Sigrist (University of Massachusetts Amherst); Bo Sun (University of Ottawa); Shahin Kamali (York University); Mohammad Hajiesmaili (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Session 3D: Substainability

Location TBD · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Characterizing Performance–Energy Trade-offs of Large Language Models in Multi-Request WorkflowsVirtual talk
    Md. Monzurul Amin Ifath, Israat Haque (Dalhousie University)
  • Cache Your Prompt When It’s Green — Carbon-aware Caching for Large Language Model Serving
    Yuyang Tian, Desen Sun (University of Waterloo); Yi Ding (Purdue University); Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo)
  • From Measurement to Emissions: Assessing the Carbon Footprint of Traffic FlowsBest Paper Award Finalist
    Sawsan El-Zahr, Noa Zilberman (University of Oxford)
  • HealthServe: A Public Health-Aware Inference Framework
    Sicheng Zhou, Rohan Basu Roy (University of Utah)

Session 4A: Game theory

Pendleton · 1:30pm - 4:00pm · 2.5 hrs

  • Learning with Episodic Hypothesis Testing in General Games: A Framework for Equilibrium Selection
    Ruifan Yang (Cornell University); Manxi Wu (University of California Berkeley)
  • Information Design for Prosocial Behavior
    Alexandre Reiffers (IMT Atlantique); Rajesh Sundaresan (Indian Institute of Science)
  • The Price of Strategic Information: Degree-Based Bounds on Inefficiency in Distributed Learning Games
    Tuan Ngoc Do, Hai Duc Nguyen, Khanh Quoc Nguyen, Hiep Quang Dao, Anh Duc-Duy Nguyen, Luong Cong Nguyen (Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam)
  • Nash Equilibria in Uniform Price Auctions: Theory, Computation, and Market Insights
    Yifan Feng (National University of Singapore); Negin Golrezaei (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Qinzhen Li (National University of Singapore)
  • Guiding the Recommender: Information-Aware Auto-Bidding for Content Promotion
    Yumou Liu, Zhenzhe Zheng (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Jiang Rong, Yao Hu (Xiaohongshu); Fan Wu, Guihai Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Session 4B: HPC & GPU computing

2210ABC · 1:30pm - 4:00pm · 2.5 hrs

  • Minos: Systematically Classifying Performance and Power Characteristics of GPU Workloads on HPC Clusters
    Rutwik Jain, Yiwei Jiang (University of Wisconsin Madison); Matthew D. Sinclair (University of Wisconsin–Madison); Shivaram Venkataraman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • LPGSim: A Lightweight Parallel GPU Simulator Maximizing Speed with Trustworthy Simulation
    Hyunwoo Nam, Jay Hwan Lee, Yeonsoo Kim, Mengzhao Zhang (Yonsei University); Jeonggeun Kim (Kyungpook National University); Bernd Burgstaller (Yonsei University)
  • Towards Scalable Storage Architectures for GPU Clusters Running Large Language Models
    Ali Sedaghatgoo (Sharif University of Technology); Reza Salkhordeh (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz); André Brinkmann (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz); Hossein Asadi (Sharif University of Technology)
  • cuPTW: Leveraging Idle Compute Units for Massively Parallel GPU Page Table Walks
    Zihang Chen (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Tianao Ge (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Lieven Eeckhout (Ghent University); Hongyuan Liu (Stevens Institute of Technology); Jiayi Huang (HKUST(GZ))
  • RELL-STC: An Efficient SpMM Extension of Sparse Tensor Core with Re-structured ELLPACK and Gustavson Dataflow
    Jianfeng Cui (National University of Defense Technology); Bo Yuan (College of Computer Science, National University of Defense Technology); Zekun Jiang (National University of Defense Technology); Sheng Liu (National University of Defense Technology,China); Kai Lu (National University of Defense Techonology)

Session 4C: Networking 2

Pond (1st flr) · 1:30pm - 4:00pm · 2.5 hrs

  • MATER: Mutually Aware Framework for Teleoperated-robot with Extended Reality
    Ziliang Zhang, Cong Liu (University of California, Riverside); Hyoseung Kim (UC Riverside)
  • Assessing Resilience in Authoritative DNS Infrastructure Supporting Government Services
    Agung Septiadi, Minzhao Lyu, Hassan Habibi Gharakheili, Vijay Sivaraman (University of New South Wales)
  • CAP: Detecting Network Device Misconfigurations with Context-Aware Prompting of LLMs
    Xi Jiang (University of Chicago); Aaron Gember-Jacobson (Colgate University); Nick Feamster (University of Chicago)
  • Janus: A Dual-Mask Attention Transformer for Log-based Anomaly Detection in Cellular Networks
    Umakant Kulkarni (Purdue University/Dept. of Computer Science); Sonia Fahmy (Purdue University)
  • Dynamic SLA-aware Network Slice Monitoring
    Niloy Saha, Mina Tahmasbi Arashloo (University of Waterloo); Nashid Shahriar (University of Regina); Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo)

June 11, 2026

Thursday

Session 5A: Queueing

Pendleton · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Stochastic Network Utility Maximization in Strategic Queueing Systems: A Game-Theoretic Approach
    Quang Minh Nguyen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Randall Berry (Northwestern University); Eytan Modiano (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • The Multiserver-Job Stochastic Recurrence Equation for Cloud Computing Performance Evaluation
    François Baccelli (INRIA); Diletta Olliaro (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, KTH Royal Institute of Technology); Marco Ajmone Marsan (IMDEA Networks Institute); Marin Andrea (University Ca' Foscari of Venice)
  • Efficiency-Reward Trade-Off in Queues with Dynamic Arrivals
    Tianze Qu (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Sushil Mahavir Varma (University of Michigan Ann Arbor)
  • Robustness of the 2-Choices Dynamics to Node Failures
    Luke Meredith, Arpan Mukhopadhyay (University of Warwick)

Session 5B: Quantum systems 1

2210ABC · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • ScaleQsim: Highly Scalable Quantum Circuit Simulation Framework for Exascale HPC Systems
    Changjong Kim, Ehan Sohn, Seunghwan Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology); Alex Sim, Kesheng Wu, Houjun Tang (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory); Yongseok Son (Chung-Ang University); Sunggon Kim (Seoul National University of Science and Technology)
  • Anchor: Reducing Temporal and Spatial Output Performance Variability on Quantum Computers
    Yuqian Huo, Daniel Leeds, Jason Z. Ludmir, Nicholas S. DiBrita, Tirthak Patel (Rice University)
  • ObliQ: Solving Quadratic Unconstrained Binary Optimization Problems on Real Photonic Quantum Machines
    Aditya Ranjan, Daniel Silver (Northeastern University); Tirthak Patel (Rice University); Bhargav Chickmagalurnanjun, Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University)
  • A Fine-Grained and Efficient Reliability Analysis Framework for Noisy Quantum Circuits
    Jindi Wu (DePaul University); Tianjie Hu, Qun Li (William & Mary)

Session 5C: Networking 3: satellite

Pond (1st flr) · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Horizon: Understanding and Predicting Global Starlink Performance
    Cristian Benghe, Vlad Graure, Tanya Shreedhar, Nitinder Mohan (TU Delft)
  • Exploring the 5G Digital Divide in the Non-Contiguous US: LEO Satellites to the Rescue?
    Sizhe Wang, Moinak Ghoshal, Yufei Feng, Imran Khan, Phuc Dinh (Northeastern University); Omar Basit (Purdue University); Zhekun Yu (Northeastern University); Y. Charlie Hu (Purdue University); Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (Northeastern University)
  • A Comprehensive Study of Satellite Network Performance During Severe or Extreme Geomagnetic Storms over 1.5 Years (May 2024 – Oct 2025)
    Saeed Fadaei (University of Surrey); Aravindh Raman (Cisco ThousandEyes); Prince Bhardwaj Pawankumar Sharma (University of Surrey); Nishanth Sastry (University of Surrey, UK)
  • A Variegated Look at Direct-to-Cell Satellites in the Wild
    Wei Liu, Jingyi Lan, Yuanjie Li, Bowen Sun, Yekai Dong, Yufeng Wang, Hewu Li, Qian Wu, Zeqi Lai, Jun Liu (Tsinghua University)

Session 5D: Measurement

Location TBD · 10:30am - 12:30pm · 2 hrs

  • Are We Ready to Enable Satellite Autonomy Through on Board Image Registration?
    Claudio Di Salvo (Politecnico di Milano); Emanuele Del Sozzo (MIT); Giuseppe Sorrentino (Politecnico di Milano); Eleonora D'Arnese (University of Edinburgh); Paolo Panicucci, Davide Conficconi (Politecnico di Milano)
  • μ-VF: Enabling Virtualization of Embedded FPGAs
    Vincenzo Bucaria, Francesco Longo, Giovanni Merlino (University of Messina); Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University)
  • On Abnormal Execution Timing of Conditional Jump Instructions
    Annika Wilde (Ruhr University Bochum); Samira Briongos, Claudio Soriente (NEC Laboratories Europe); Ghassan Karame (Ruhr University Bochum)
  • Shiny Objects: Object-Centric Characterization of Chromium
    Saket Upadhyay, Ashish Venkat (University of Virginia)

Session 6A: Blockchain 2

Pendleton · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

  • Shedding Light on Shadows: Automatically Tracing Illicit Money Flows on EVM-Compatible BlockchainsBest Paper Award Finalist
    Yicheng Huo (Zhejiang University); Yufeng Hu (City University of Hong Kong); Yajin Zhou (Zhejiang University); Ting Yu (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence); Lei Wu (Zhejiang University); Cong Wang (City University of Hong Kong)
  • The Price of Interoperability: Exploring Cross-Chain Bridges and Their Economic Consequences
    Yiyue Cao, Mingzhe Zheng (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)); Lin William Cong (Nanyang Technological University); Siguang Li, Xuechao Wang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou))

Session 6B: Quantum systems 2

2210ABC · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

  • ECCentric: An Empirical Analysis of Quantum Error Correction Codes
    Aleksandra Świerkowska, Jannik Pflieger, Emmanouil Giortamis, Pramod Bhatotia (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
  • Three Birds with One Stone: Improving Performance, Convergence, and System Throughput with NEST
    Yuqian Huo, David Quiroga, Anastasios Kyrillidis, Tirthak Patel (Rice University)

Session 6C: Networking 4

Pond (1st flr) · 2:30pm - 3:30pm · 1 hr

  • Enabling Reliable Network Management with Large Language Models
    Yajie Zhou (University of Maryland); Kevin Hsieh, Sathiya Kumaran Mani (Microsoft Research); Srikanth Kandula (Amazon Web Services); Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)
  • The Impact of IP Version on Household Internet Speed: A Comparative Study
    Amanda Hsu (Georgia Institute of Technology); Nick Feamster (University of Chicago); Paul Pearce, Frank Li (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Session 7A: Theoretical machine learning

Pendleton · 4:00pm - 5:30pm · 1.5 hrs

  • A Minimal-Assumption Analysis of Q-Learning with Time-Varying PoliciesBest Paper Award Finalist
    Phalguni Nanda, Zaiwei Chen (Purdue University)
  • Wasserstein‑p Central Limit Theorem Rates: From Local Dependence to Markov ChainsBest Paper Award Finalist
    Yixuan Zhang, Qiaomin Xie (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Better than Optimal: Improving Adaptive Stochastic Quantization Using Shared Randomness
    Ran Ben Basat (University College London and Broadcom); Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (Broadcom); Michael Mitzenmacher (Harvard University); Shay Vargaftik (Broadcom)

Session 7B: HPC

2210ABC · 4:00pm - 5:30pm · 1.5 hrs

  • ACALSim: A Scalable Parallel Simulation Framework for High-Performance System Design Space Exploration
    Wei-Fen Lin (Taiwan High-Performance Computing Education Association); Jen-Chien Chang, Yen-Po Chen (National Cheng Kung University); Zi-Yi Tai (Taiwan High-Performance Computing Education Association); Yu-Chen Chang (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University); Chia-Pao Chiang, Yu-Yang Lee, Yu-Chieh Wang (National Cheng Kung University)
  • Sumeru: Towards Understanding and Achieving Cache-Optimal Inbound Network I/O
    Minhu Wang (Tsinghua University); Mingwei Xu (Quan Cheng Laboratory); Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University)
  • d-HNSW: A High-performance Vector Search Engine on Disaggregated Memory
    Fei Fang, Yi Liu, Chen Qian (University of California Santa Cruz)

Session 7C: LLM scheduling

Pond (1st flr) · 4:00 - 5:30pm · 1.5 hrs

  • Pittacus: Optimizing LLM Serving on Cloud Data Centers with Forecast Aware Auto-Scaling
    Shashwat Jaiswal (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA); Kunal Jain (Microsoft); Yogesh Simmhan (Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore); Anjaly Parayil (Microsoft Research); Ankur Mallick, Rujia Wang, Renee St. Amant, Chetan Bansal (Microsoft); Victor Rühle (Microsoft Research); Anoop Kulkarni, Steve Kofsky (Microsoft); Saravan Rajmohan (Microsoft 365)
  • Optimizing Dropout in LLM Training: Performance Comparison of Fusion and Overlap
    Haiyue Ma (Princeton University); Jian Liu, Ronny Krashinsky (NVIDIA)
  • Optimal Scheduling Algorithms for LLM Inference: Theory and Practice
    Agrim Bari, Parikshit Hegde, Gustavo de Veciana (The University of Texas at Austin)