SDI Seminar Schedule

About the SDI Seminar Series
The Systems Design and Implementation (SDI) seminar series is an informal gathering of the SCS & ECE systems community. The range of talks is broad, covering the structure, implementation and performance of substantial systems. Typically, talks are on operating systems, application systems, communications, databases and language implementations, and are given by both Carnegie Mellon researchers and outside visitors.
SDI seminars may be advertised with only a day's warning through the SDI mailing
list. If you would like to subscribe to this list to receive information
on upcoming seminars, send mail to Karen with "subscribe SDI-list" in the subject line.
Times, Locations & Contacts
- RMCIC - 4th floor (Panther Hollow Room),
Noon to 1 pm, unless otherwise noted
- directions
- #26 on campus map - Alternate rooms often include:
- Gates Center (GC) 8102 - directions
- Gates Center 6115 – 9A on campus map
For more info, contact: ; 412-268-6716
Interested in speaking in this forum?
We encourage students to give presentations, especially as practice talks for conferences and thesis work. If you would like to give a talk or recommend a speaker, please contact , (412-268-6716), to check the availability of your preferred date.
Info for Speakers
The seminar planners require that certain information be emailed to and once a seminar date has been set. To properly promote the seminar, we need the following information as far in advance as is possible. Information required includes the seminar talk title, a brief abstract, the speaker's bio, a digital photo of the speaker, and their preferred media output (i.e. overhead vs. lcd)
SUMMER 2020 Seminar Schedule
June | ||
23 & 24 | PDL CONSORTIUM SPEAKER SERIES | SPECIAL AFTERNOON OF SEMINARS BY INDUSTRY LEADERS Big Memory through Virtual Cluster Memory Experience using RDMA in Oracle Database Workload-optimized SSDs Adapting Technology Development for the IT4.0 Datashpere Operationalising ML is Mostly a Systems Problem Improving Hypervisor Security Zoned Namespaces: Take Control of Your Data Metastable Failure States in Distributed Systems Advancements in Integrating Application Caves Mind Your State for Your State of Mind |
SPRING 2020 Seminar Schedule
March | ||
16 | Rahul Sukthankar, Google | TBA Joint SDi/VASC Seminar |
February | ||
6 | Carlo Curino, MSR | on hold |
January | ||
16 | Maja Vuković, IBM Research |
AI for Application Modernization |
FALL 2019 Seminar Schedule
December | ||
5 | Aditya Akella, U Wisconsin-Madison | Computer Systems for Data Analysis in a Changing World |
3 | Hideaki Kimura, Oracle | Introduction to NVM Direct NOTE DAY -- TUESDAY |
October | ||
28 | Yiting Xia, Facebook | Building Dynamic Data Center Networks with Distributed Small Optical Switches NOTE DAY -- MONDAY |
September | ||
26 | Zhiru Zhang, Cornell University | The Smart and The Quick: Efficient Machine Learning Greets Agile Hardware Design NOTE LOCATION AND TIME: GHC 4405 from 10:00-11:00 |
13 | Pat Helland, Salesforce Rohit Agrawal, SalesForce |
Write Amplification Versus Read Perspiration Compression Tradeoffs And Choices For An LSM Key Value Store NOTE DAY - FRIDAY |
5 | Brendan McMahan, Google | Federated Learning, from Research to Practice [slides] |
5 | Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Microsoft Research | Democratizing Video Analytics – The quest for the holy trinity of low latency, low cost, and high accuracy |
SUMMER 2019 Seminar Schedule
August | ||
21 | Roxana Geambasu, Columbia University | Security and Privacy Guarantees in Machine Learning with Differential Privacy JOINT CYLAB/SDI SEMINAR |
July | ||
25 | Lucas Lersch, TU Dresden |
Persistent Buffer Management With Optimistic Consistency *partially funded by Yahoo! |
SPRING 2019 Seminar Schedule
FALL 2018 Seminar Schedule
SUMMER 2018 Seminar Schedule
July | ||
25 | Nodir Kodirov University of British Columbia |
VNF Chain Allocation and Management at Data Center Scale |
SPRING 2018 Seminar Schedule
May | ||
8 | PDL CONSORTIUM SPEAKER SERIES | SPECIAL AFTERNOON OF SEMINARS BY INDUSTRY LEADERS - RMCIC PANTHER HOLLOW CONFERENCE ROOM Zahra Khatami, Oracle Gosia Steinder, IBM Research Xiaoyong Liu, Alibaba Larry Rudolph, Two Sigma Weiwei Gong, Oracle Rob Johnson, VMware |
3 | Jiaqi Yan, Snowflake Computing |
Automatic Clustering at Snowflake *partially funded by Yahoo! Labs |
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2017 | SPRING | SUMMER | FALL |
2016 | SPRING | NO SEMINARS HELD | FALL |
2015 | SPRING | NO SEMINARS HELD | FALL |
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1997 | SPRING | NO SEMINARS HELD | FALL |
1996 | SPRING | SUMMER | FALL |
1995 | SPRING | NO SEMINARS HELD | FALL |
1994 | SPRING | SUMMER | FALL |
1993 | NO SEMINARS HELD | NO SEMINARS HELD | FALL |
For further seminar info contact at 412-268-6716