Overview

The 15th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop (EuroDW 2021) will provide a forum for PhD students to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. Technical presentations will be augmented with general advice and discussions about getting a PhD, doing research, and career perspectives. We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. EuroDW 2021 will also offer the opportunity for what we call “mentoring moments”. The idea is to give graduate students a chance to talk one-on-one (or, in some cases, one-on-two) about their research with outstanding researchers beyond those available at the students’ universities.

1:00 PM - 2.15 PM (BST)

Session Chair Pedro Fonseca

• ByzML: A Byzantine Machine Learning Library
  Arsany Guirguis, EPFL
• BFT Replication with Network Ordered and Attested History: NOAH
  Mingliang Jiang, National University of Singapore
• Millenial: Modular Microservices Macrobenchmarks
  Vaastav Anand, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
• Building Trustworthy Many-Core Systems
  Nathan Rutherford, Royal Holloway University of London
• Hydra: In-Network Ordering with Multiple Sequencers
  Inho Choi, National University of Singapore
• Towards Generation of Attack Trees using Machine Learning
  Kacper Sowka, Coventry University
• Extend Rubik for Fluently Programming Network Stacks
  Guangda Sun, National University of Singapore

2:30 PM - 3.45 PM (BST)

Session Chair Baris Kasikci

• Mega-RPCs: Hardware Assisted Efficient Memory Management for Processing Mega-sized RPCs
  Norwich Mungkalaton, University of Sidney
• An OS to Improve the Programming of Heterogeneous Systems in the Data Center
  Karim Manaouil, University Of Edinburgh
• Machine Learning Input Data Processing as a Service
  Dan Graur, ETH Zurich
• Adaptive and dynamic edge gateways deployment for mission-critical applications
  Nina Santi, Inria
• Mitigating Excessive Virtual CPU Spinning in VM-agnostic Hypervisors
  Kenta Ishiguro, Keio University
• Tardis: User-level System Design in the context of Network Processing
  Yihan Yang, National University of Singapore
• RDMA Support for Online Data Intensive Services
  Alireza Sanaee, Queen Mary University of London
• Implementing Data Structures for Network Function Virtualisation on FPGA
  Yunfan Li, National University of Singapore

4:00 PM - 5.30 PM (BST)

Session Chair Natacha Crooks

• Service Boosters: Library Operating Systems for the Data Center
  Henri Demoulin, University of Pennsylvania
• A Black-box Approach for Scaling OS Kernels
  Ankit Bhardwaj, University of Utah
• Towards Pushing the Performance and Cost Envelope For Next-Generation Cloud Platforms
  Jashwant Raj Gunasekaran, The Pennsylvania State University
• Toward Workload-Aware State Management in Streaming Systems
  Showan Asyabi, Boston University
• Simplifying heterogeneous migration between x86 and ARM machines
  Nikolaos Mavrogeorgis, University of Edinburgh
• Transparent and Low Overhead Tracing and Fault Injection
  Jun Zhang, UC Santa Cruz

5:45 PM - 7.15 PM (BST)

Session Chair Irene Zhang

• Goldilocks Fault Tolerance for Actor
  Audrey Cheng, UC Berkeley
• Trusted Execution for High-Performance Computing
  Ayaz Akram, UC Davis
• Locality Optimizations for Data Center Applications
  Tanvir Ahmed Khan, University of Michigan
• Secure, Distributed Sparse Matrix Multiplication for Machine Learning
  Samyukta Yagati, UC Berkeley
• Architectural Implications of Graph Neural Networks for Recommendation
  Samuel Hsia, Harvard University
• Autoscaling consensus
  David Chu, UC Berkeley
• Finding Crash Consistency Bugs in Persistent Memory File Systems
  Hayley LeBanc, University of Texas at Austin
• Wendy the Good Little BFT
  Neil Giridharan, UC Berkeley
• Retrofitting Memory Safety to Low-level Software Incrementally Jie Zhou, University of Rochester

Goal of the Workshop

The goal of the workshop is to provide feedback and advice to PhD students both on technical aspects of their research as well as career development. We expect a range of attendees such as the presenters’ peers, as well as senior researchers who will attend to share their expertise and provide constructive feedback. The idea is to create opportunities for students to meet with peers outside of their home institution, to get technical feedback as well as career advice from senior researchers in their field, to find out about internship and job opportunities, and to articulate their own work in a public, non-threatening forum. We encourage the participants to stay for the duration of the EuroSys main conference.

We expect most submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic. Research topics of interest include “systems” work in the broadest sense, including work on formal foundations, as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of real systems. Specifically, research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Artificial intelligent systems
• Big data analytics frameworks
• Cloud computing and data center systems
• Database systems
• Dependable systems
• Distributed systems
• File and storage systems
• Language support and runtime systems
• Mobile and pervasive systems
• Networked systems
• Operating systems
• Parallelism, concurrency, and multicore systems
• Real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems
• Secure systems, privacy and anonymity preserving systems
• Tracing, analysis, and transformation of systems
• Virtualization systems

Note: the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. Simultaneous submissions are allowed from the perspective of EuroDW.

Talk Preparation Instructions for the Workshop

If you have already completed two years of your PhD studies, please prepare a 10-minute talk.

If you are in the first two years of your PhD, please prepare a 3-minute elevator pitch with a single slide.

Please upload your videos to the link emailed to you in the acceptance email by April 19th.

Submission Instructions

If you would like to participate in the workshop, please submit your materials before the deadline. Submissions will receive written feedback from the PC, but the submission process is very lightweight and the main purpose is to put together the program and to match students with mentors.

Submission site: https://eurodw21.hotcrp.com/

Submissions should be up to 2 pages (including title and figures but excluding references) and should include the following sections only:

• Abstract
• Introduction (problem statement, an overview of the proposed work, main differences from existing works)
• Overview of the proposed work
• Preliminary results (if applicable)
• Work to be done (description of the planned work to address the proposed research problem and brief timeline to PhD completion)
• Related work

Submissions will be assessed based on the importance, clarity and relevance to EuroSys of the research problem, excellent understanding of the core related work, realistic and clear roadmap to work completion towards the PhD, and overall quality of the submission paper.

Please note that there will be no published proceedings. Submissions shall be in .pdf, 2-column, single-spaced, 10pt format.

In addition, please include the following information in your submission (either in the abstract or in the submitted pdf):

• PhD advisor’s name and affiliation
• Year when you started your PhD
• Expected submission date of the PhD thesis

Important Dates

• Submission deadline: Feb 19, 2021 (AoE)
• Notification: March 24, 2021
• Workshop, Online: April 26, 2021

Organizers

Workshop Chairs

Natacha Crooks, UC Berkeley

Pedro Fonseca, Purdue University

Baris Kasikci, University of Michigan

Irene Zhang, Microsoft Research

Program Committee

Aastha Mehta, MPI-SWS (Germany) and UBC (Canada)

Adam Belay, MIT CSAIL

Adriana Szekeres, VMWare Research Group

Aishwarya Ganesan, VMware Research

Akshitha Sriraman, University of Michigan

Amrita Mazumdar, University of Washington

Ana Klimovic, Google Brain, ETH Zurich

Antoine Kaufmann, MPI-SWS

Caroline Trippel, Stanford University

Jialin Li, National University of Singapore

Jonathan Mace, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Marios Kogias, Microsoft Research

Matthew Milano, University of California, Berkeley

Nathan Dautenhahn, Rice University

Naveen Kr. Sharma, Google

Niel Lebeck, Google

Oana Balmau, McGill University

Pinar Tozun, IT University of Copenhagen

Ramnatthan Alagappan, VMware Research Group

Rong Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Tej Chajed, MIT

Trevor E. Carlson, National University of Singapore

Youngjin Kwon, KAIST

Yubin Xia, SJTU