2022 Schedule
Day 1 - Monday, February 28
8:20-8:30am
Welcome
8:30-9:05am
Keynote
Amin Vahdat, Google
9:05-9:15am
Break
9:15-10:20am
Host/SmartNIC
Session Moderator: Marc de Kruijf
- Aurojit Panda, New York University - Extensible Network Stacks
- Danyang Zhuo, Duke University - Collie: Finding Performance Anomalies in RDMA Subsystems
- Ahmed Saeed, Georgia Tech - High Performance Network Stacks for Edge Servers
10:20-10:40AM
Break
10:40-11:40AM
Datacenter Networking
Session Moderator: Andrew Ferguson
- Katerina Argyraki, EPFL - Performance Interfaces (for Network Functions and Beyond)
- Nate Foster, Cornell University - Runtime Network Verification
- Ming Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison - CAS2: An Edge-Centric Networking Architecture for Disaggregated Storage
11:40-11:50AM
Break
11:50am-12:30pm
Googler Panel on End Hosts/SmartNIC/DCN
Session Moderator: Nandita Dukkipati
Panelist: Nupur Kothari, Prashant Chandra, Arvind Krishnamurthy, David Culler & Joon Ong
12:30pm
Wrap-up
12:30-12:40pm
Break
12:40-1:40pm
Water Cooler Chats
- Water Cooler Chat 1 - Hosted by Jeff Mogul
- Water Cooler Chat 2 - Hosted by David Culler
- Water Cooler Chat 3 - Chat with Women in Networking | Hosted by Priya Mahadevan, Nandita Dukkipati, Rupa Krishnan and Daniela Raijman
Day 2 - Tuesday, March 1
8:20-8:30am
Welcome
8:30-9:00am
Keynote
Bikash Koley, Google
9:00-9:05am
Break
9:05-9:40AM
Googler Panel on Reliability/Availability
Session Moderator: Priya Mahadevan
Panelist: Rich Alimi, Jessica McCarthy & Arjun Singh
9:40-9:50AM
Break
9:50-10:50AM
Cloud
Session Moderator: Arunkumar Jayaraman
- Keith Winstein, Stanford University - Computation as a Service: New Models of Serverless Computing
- Anirudh Sivaraman, New York University - Designing Networked Systems for Cloud Tenants
- Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California - CloudCluster: Unearthing the Functional Structure of a Cloud Service
10:50-11:00am
Break
11:00-11:40am
Application-Network Integration
Session Moderator: Malveeka Tewari
- Eugene Ng, Rice University - Closed-Loop Designs for Better Application-Network Integration
- Radhika Mittal, UIUC - Enabling Users to Control Their Internet
11:40-11:50AM
Break
11:50am-12:30pm
Googler Panel on WAN/Cloud
Session Moderator: Daniela Raijman
Panelist: Rob Enns, Subhasree Mandal, Ashok Narayanan & Alok Kumar
12:30PM
Wrap-up
12:30-12:45PM
Break
12:45-1:54PM
Student Lightning Talks
Session Moderators: Malveeka Tewari & Gautam Kumar
- Xinhao Kong, Duke University - Collie: Finding Performance Anomalies in RDMA Subsystems
- Satadal Sengupta, Princeton University - Optimizing Video Conferencing QoE in the Data Plane
- Stewart Grant, University of California, San Diego - In-network Techniques for Resource Disaggregation
- Rukshani Athapathu, University of California, San Diego - Energy Consumption of TCP (Specific Focus on Congestion Control Algorithms)
- Rajath Shashidhara, University of Washinhgton, Seattle - FlexTOE: Flexible TCP Offload with Fine-Grained Parallelism
- Yuhan Deng, Stanford University - Fixpoint: A Functional Operating System
- Pooria Namyar, University of Southern California - A Throughput-centric View of the Performance of Datacenter Topologies
- Nikita Lazarev, Cornell University - CPU-free Data Movement in Datacenters
- Weitao Wang, Rice University - MXDAG: A Hybrid Abstraction for Emerging Applications
- Jessica Berg, New York University - Snicket: Query-Driven Distributed Tracing Using Service Mesh Extensions
- Anup Agarwal, Carnegie Mellon University - HeteroSketch: Coordinating Network Monitoring in Heterogeneous and Dynamic Networks
- Zhizhen Zhong, Massachuetts Institute of Technology - Building Highly-Available WAN with Reconfigurable Networks
Day 3 - Wednesday, March 2
7:30-8:15am
Student Lightning Talks
Session Moderators: Phillipa Gill & Mojgan Ghasemi
- Abhik Bose, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Leveraging Programmable Dataplanes for a High Performance 5G User Plane Function
- Andrea D'Amico, Politecnico di Torino - Lightpath Computation and Optimization in Multi-band Optical Networking
- Georgia Fragkouli, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne - Internet Performance Transparency
- Tao Wang, New York University - Isolation Mechanisms for High-Speed Packet-Processing Pipelines
- Hugo Sadok, Carnegie Mellon University - We Need Kernel Interposition Over the Network Dataplane
- Sophia Yoo, Princeton University - SmartCookie: Distributed In-Network SYN Flooding Mitigation
- Robin Matzner, University College London - Ultra-fast Optical Network Throughput Prediction Using Graph Neural Networks
8:15-8:30AM
Break
8:30-8:40AM
Welcome
8:40-9:10AM
Keynote
Jennifer Rexford, Princeton University
9:10-9:15AM
Break
9:15-9:50AM
Googler Panel on Data Sharing & Academic Collaborations
Session Moderator: Rupa Krishnan
Pre-reading: "Data-driven Networking Research: models for academic collaboration with Industry (a Google point of view)" (10-minute read)
Panelist: Jeff Mogul, Sylvia Ratnasamy, Marco Lohse & Aditya Akella
9:50-10:05AM
Break
10:05-11:25AM
Networks for ML
Session Moderator: Minlan Yu
- Manya Ghobadi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Optimizing the Network Topology for Distributed DNN Training
- Noa Zilberman, University of Oxford - In-network Machine Learning
- Arpit Gupta, University of California, Santa Barbara - Democratizing Networking Research in the Era of AI/ML
- Aditya Akella - Network-acclereated Multi-tenant Distributed Training