2025 New England Systems Day

The New England Systems Day (NESysDay) is a day-long, in-person event that brings together faculty, students, and practitioners engaged in computer systems research.

Registration

Please register using the following link: https://www.accelevents.com/e/new-england-systems-day

Call for participation

We solicit talks about ongoing research in the area of computer systems. We are broadly interested in topics in this space, including, but not limited to:

Operating systems, File and storage systems, Distributed systems, Cloud computing, Mobile systems, Reliable systems, System security, Machine learning systems, Big data systems, Embedded systems, System virtualization, and Management and troubleshooting of complex systems.

Talk solicitation

To present your work at NESysDay’25, please submit the following information to https://ne-sysday25.hotcrp.com/ by January 24, 2024:

Schedule

8:15 am - 8:55 am — Breakfast
8:55 am - 9:00 am — Opening Remarks
9:00 am - 10:35 am — Machine Learning Systems (session chair: Yigong Hu)
Stateful Large Language Model Serving with Pensieve—Jinkun Lin (New York University)
QuArch: Crowdsourcing an ML Dataset for Benchmarking AI in Computer Architecture—Shvetank Prakash (Harvard University)
Enhancing LLM Access with Quality-Aware Speculative Generation Across Regions—Noah Martin (Tufts University), Fahad Dogar (Tufts University)
GSplit: Scaling Graph Neural Network Training on Large Graphs via Split-Parallelism—Juelin Liu (University of Massachusetts Amherst), Sandeep Polisetty (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Refine: Robust Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Production HPC Systems—Efe Sencan (Boston University)
DROP: Poison Dilution via Knowledge Distillation for Federated Learning—Georgios Syros (Northeastern University)
LLMProxy: Reducing Cost to Access Large Language Models—Abdullah Bin Faisal (Tufts University)
10:35 am - 11:00 am — Break
11:00 am - 12:00 pm — Panel Discussion: When Systems Meet AI
Panelists: Mohammad Alizadeh (MIT), Jonathan Appavoo (Red Hat Research and Boston University), Tim Kraska (MIT), and Vijay Janapa Reddi (Harvard University) Moderator: Cheng Tan (Northeastern University)
12:00 pm - 1:20 pm — Lunch
1:20 pm - 2:25 pm — Systems (session chair: Xiang (Jenny) Ren)
Caging: An Abstraction For Finer-grained Isolation—Yaxuan (Alice) Wen (New York University)
MANA: A New Generation of Low-Overhead Non-Invasive Transparent Checkpointing for HPC—Yao Xu (Northeastern University)
Carbon-aware scheduling: Approaches and Trade-offs—Walid Hanafy (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Astraea, an online probabilistic distributed tracing system—Syed Qasim (Boston University)
ZStore: A Efficient S3-Compatible Object Storage System with ZNS SSDs—Shuwen Sun (Northeastern University)
2:25 pm - 2:45 pm — Break
2:45 pm - 3:50 pm — Security and Formal Methods (session chair: Deepti Raghavan)
Rust Isn’t a Silver Bullet for Systems Research (Yet)—Corinn Tiffany (Brown University)
Rethinking Trust in Forge-Based Git Security—Patrick Zielinski (New York University)
T-BRD: Tesla Authenticated UAS Broadcast Remote ID—Jason Veara (Northeastern University), Manav Bharat Jain (Northeastern University) Aanjhan Ranganathan (Northeastern University)
Securing the Legal Code with TUF—Renata Vaderna (New York University)
A Formal Analysis of SCTP: Attack Synthesis and Patch Verification—Jake Ginesin (Northeastern University)
Verifying safety and liveness of compositions of weakly consistent distributed systems—Bryant Curto (Northeastern University)
3:50 pm - 4:10 pm — Break
4:10 pm - 5:15 pm — Networks (session chair: Akshay Narayan)
Topaz: Declarative and Verifiable Authoritative DNS at CDN-Scale—James Larisch (Harvard University)
Exploiting Temporal Vulnerabilities for Unauthorized Access in Intent-Based Networking—Ben Weintraub (Northeastern University and Lincoln Laboratory)
Design and Implementation of a Scalable Financial Exchange in the Public Cloud—Haseeb Ashfaq (New York University)
Parameters Optimization for LoRa Links: An Experimental Approach for Power Consumption and Packet Reception—Claudia Pacori Palomino (Dartmouth College)
Performance of Cellular Networks on the Wheels—Moinak Ghoshal (Northeastern University)
5:15 pm - 5:20 pm — Closing Remarks

Organizing committee

Code of Conduct

We have adopted the USENIX Event Code of Conduct for the NESysDay event.

Sponsors

ACM SIGOPS, Khoury College of Computer Sciences

Contact

Please send any questions to Cheng Tan and Ji-Yong Shin.