Workshops/Tutorials Day 1: Dec 15, 2025 (Parallel Tracks)

Time Track 1 Track 2 Track 3
7:30–8:30 Registration and Breakfast (Atrium Area)
8:30–10:00 WoSC Session 1, Room: FGH134 Mid4CC Session 1 , Room: FGH134 Tutorial 1: This Is INSANE! Kernel-Bypass Networking Finally Made Easy , Room: FGH136
10:00–10:30 Break (Atrium Area)
10:30–12:00 WoSC Session 2 , Room: FGH134 Mid4CC Session 2 , Room: FGH134 Tutorial 1: This Is INSANE! Kernel-Bypass Networking Finally Made Easy , Room: FGH136
12:00–1:30 Lunch (Atrium Area)
1:30–3:00 WoSC Session 3 , Room: FGH134 MLOps Session 1 , Room: FGH134 Tutorial 2: A Machine Learning-based Intelligent Middleware Platform for a Private Edge Cloud , Room: FGH136
3:00–3:30 Break (Atrium Area)
3:30–5:00 WoSC Session 4, Room: FGH134 MLOps Session 2 , Room: FGH134 Tutorial 2: A Machine Learning-based Intelligent Middleware Platform for a Private Edge Cloud , Room: FGH136

Workshops/Tutorials Day 2: Dec 16, 2025 (Parallel Tracks)

Time Track 1: MITOTI Track 2: Doctoral Symposium Track 3: Tutorial/MAIoT
7:30–8:30 Registration and Breakfast (Atrium Area)
8:30–10:00 MITOTI Session 1 , Room: FGH134 Doctoral Symposium Session 1, Room: FGH134 Tutorial 3: Serverless Workflow Benchmarking with HSMFlow and WfBench, Room: FGH136
10:00–10:30 Break (Atrium Area)
10:30–12:00 MITOTI Session 2 , Room: FGH134 Doctoral Symposium Session 2, Room: FGH134 Tutorial 3: Serverless Workflow Benchmarking with HSMFlow and WfBench, Room: FGH136
12:00–1:30 Lunch (Atrium Area)
1:30–3:00 MITOTI Session 3, Room: FGH134 Doctoral Symposium Session 3, Room: FGH134 MAIoT Session 1, Room: FGH136
3:00–3:30 Break (Atrium Area)
3:30–5:00 MITOTI Session 4, Room: FGH134 Doctoral Symposium Session 4, Room: FGH134 MAIoT Session 2, Room: FGH136

Main Conference Day 1: Dec 17, 2025 (Main auditorium)

Time Event
7:30–8:30 Registration and Breakfast (Atrium/Lobby)
8:30–9:00 Welcome Remarks
9:00–10:00 Keynote 1: From Libra to Space — Dahlia Malkhi (UC Santa Barbara)
10:00–10:30 Break (Atrium/Lobby)
10:30–12:00 Session 1: Blockchain
Session Chair: Suyash Gupta
12:00–13:00 Lunch (Atrium/Lobby)
13:00–14:30 Session 2: Cloud
Session Chair: Antonino Galletta
14:30–15:00 Break (Atrium/Lobby)
15:00–16:30 Session 3: Distributed ML
Session Chair: Shashank Shekhar
16:30–17:00 Demo and Posters (Atrium/Lobby)
18:30 onward Banquet: One hour museum tour followed by banquet
Country Music Hall of Fame, 222 Rep. John Lewis Way S, Nashville, TN 37203

Main Conference Day 2: Dec 18, 2025 (Main auditorium)

Time Event
7:30–8:30 Registration and Breakfast (Atrium/Lobby)
8:30–09:30 Keynote 2: Navigating Our AI-Augmented Future in High-Stakes Domains — Douglas C. Schmidt (Inaugural Dean of the School of Computing, Data Sciences & Physics at William & Mary)
09:30-10:00 Break (Atrium/Lobby)
10:00–12:00 Session 4: Distributed Systems
Session Chair: Abhishek Dubey
12:00–13:00 Lunch (Atrium/Lobby)
13:00–14:30 Session 5: Fault Tolerance
Session Chair: Mohammad Sadoghi
14:30–15:00 Break (Atrium/Lobby)
15:00–16:30 Session 6: Hardware
Session Chair: Sihang Liu
16:30–16:45 Short Break (Atrium/Lobby)
16:45–17:45 Session 7: Edge Computing
Session Chair: Giuseppe Di Modica
17:45–18:00 Short Break (Atrium/Lobby)
18:00–19:30 Demo and Poster session and refreshments (Atrium area)

Main Conference Day 3: Dec 19, 2025 (Main auditorium)

Time Event
7:30–8:30 Registration and Breakfast (Atrium/Lobby)
8:30–09:30 Keynote 3: Seven years, seven challenges: The Chronicles of Building a Decentralized Cloud - Yvonne-Anne Pignolet (DFINITY, Switzerland)
09:30–10:00 Break (Atrium/Lobby)
10:00–12:00 Session 8: Systems
Session Chair: Pierre Sutra
12:00–13:00 Lunch (Atrium/Lobby)
13:00–14:30 Session 9: Security and Privacy
Session Chair: Fabio Costa
14:30–15:00 Break (Atrium/Lobby)
15:00–16:30 Session 10: Serverless
Session Chair: Aniruddha Gokhale
16:30–16:45 Concluding Remarks and Thanks

Workshop WoSC Session 1 - FGH134

Time: 8:30 - 10:30, 15 December 2025
Venue: - FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

08:30-08:40 -
Welcome slides

08:40-09:40 - Keynote The Future of Serverless in 2025 and Beyond
Julian Wood - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Julian is a Senior Developer Advocate at Amazon Web Services (AWS) who helping developers and builders love how serverless technologies can transform the way they build and run applications.

9:40 - 10:00 - Online polls
Pedro García Lopez and Enrique Molina

10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee Break

Workshop WoSC Session 2 - FGH134

Time: 10:30 - 12:00, 15 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

10:30 - 11:00
HybridServe: Adaptive WebAssembly-Container Runtime Selection for Edge Serverless Computing

Seokhyeon Kang (Kookmin University), Moohyun Song (Kookmin University), Taeyoon Kim (Hanyang University), Soohyuk Lee (Kookmin University), Jaeseob Han (Kookmin University), Hyeokman Kim (Kookmin University), Kyungyong Lee (Hanyang University)

11:00 - 11:30
Elastic MIG Reconfiguration with PCIe-Aware Placement for Multi-Tenant GPUs

Erfan Darzi (Harvard University), Shreeanant Bharadwaj (Northeastern University), Sree Bhargavi Balija (University of California, San Diego)

11:30 - 12:00
Manifesting the Elasticity of Serverless Data Pipelines: a Metabolomics Use Case

Elena Díez-Cuadrado (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Germán T. Eizaguirre (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Atrium Area)

Workshop WoSC Session 3 - FGH134

Time: 13:30–15:00, 15 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

13:30-14:00 - Assessing Power Usage Effectiveness in Serverless Computing Environments
Anderson Andrei Da Silva (Inria, Univ. Lille), Nathan Leblond (Inria, Univ. Lille), Kellian Leveque (Inria, Univ. Lille), Romain Rouvoy (Inria, Univ. Lille)

14:00-14:30
Large Language Models for Serverless Function Generation: An Investigation on FaaS

Xinghan Chen (University of Washington Tacoma), Robert Cordingly (University of Washington Tacoma), Ling-Hong Hung (University of Washington Tacoma), Wes Lloyd (University of Washington Tacoma)

14:30 - 15:00
Illuminating the Hidden Challenges of Serverless LLM Systems

Amit Samanta (University of Utah), Tri Gia Nguyen (FPT University)

15:00-15:30 - Break (Atrium Area)

Workshop WoSC Session 4 - FGH134

Time: 15:30–17:00, 15 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

15:30 - 16:00
Flexecutor: Out-of-the-Box Smart Provisioning for Serverless Workflows

Enrique Molina-Giménez (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Daniel Barcelona-Pons (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Octavio H. Iacoponelli (Universitat Rovira i Virgili), Pedro García-López (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)

16:00-16:30
GPU Tail Latency Diagnosis for Serverless and HPC Workloads using eBPF
Erfan Darzi (Harvard) , Aldo Pareja (MIT/IBM), Shreeanant Bharadwaj (Northeastern University), Kaveh Jalilian (Northeastern University)

16:30-15:00
Sustainable Serverless Computing: A Taxonomy of Challenges and Solutions
Yassine Lazreg

17:00 Wrap Up & Closing

Workshop MLOPS Session 1, 15 December 2025

Time: 13:30-16:30, 15 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: Dr. Tomasz Szydlo, Newcastle University, UK.

Time: 13:30-14:30
Keynote Title: Safeguarding Artificial Intelligence.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Varun Ojha
Prof. Varun Ojha is a Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Artificial Intelligence at the School of Computing, Newcastle University. He is an Artificial Intelligence Theme Leader and a Co-Investigator on the EPSRC-funded National Edge AI Hub . He works in Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence: Deep Learning, Neural Networks, Machine Learning, and Data Science. In the past, Dr Ojha served as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Computer Science at the University of Reading , UK, and as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) , Zurich, Switzerland. Before this, Dr Ojha was a Marie-Curie Fellow (funded by the European Commission) at the Technical University of Ostrava , Czech Republic. For more information, please visit his personal website at: ojhavk.github.io .

Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms have become an inevitable part of our lives and are so pervasive that users often engage with them unconsciously. Both users and systems contribute vast amounts of data to train these algorithms. AI addresses a wide range of critical and sensitive problems, from medical diagnostics and climate change mitigation to assisted driving and financial technologies. However, AI systems have advantages and drawbacks. One significant concern is their security, as they are vulnerable to sophisticated malicious attacks, unintentional changes, omissions of context in training data, sensor aging, changes in the training environment, and other unforeseen circumstances. This makes AI applications at the edge—such as smartphones and cars—susceptible to defects in training data and AI models. Safeguarding AI focuses on safeguarding data integrity and the quality of learning associated with AI algorithms when they are exposed to cyber-attacks in edge computing environments and federated learning. Thus, this talk focuses on the security of AI systems on the edge.

15:00-15:30 - Break (Atrium Area)

Workshop MLOPS Session 2, 15 December 2025

Time: 15:30-16:00
Venue: FGH134
Paper 1 (on-site): Automated Dynamic AI Inference Scaling on HPC-Infrastructure: Integrating Kubernetes, Slurm and vLLM
Authors: Tim Trappen (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany), Robert Keßler (University of Cologne, Germany), Roland Pabel (University of Cologne, Germany), Viktor Achter (University of Cologne, Germany), Stefan Wesner (University of Cologne, Germany)

Time: 16:00-16:30
Paper 2 (Virtual): Fine-grained Fault Tolerance in Distributed Training Toolkits using the Syndicated Actor Model
Authors: Rutger de Groen and Tony Garnock-Jones, Maastricht University Maastricht, Netherlands

Time: 16:30-17:00
Paper 3 (Virtual): Diverse Minimum Spanning Trees
Authors: Vladimiro González-Zelaya (Newcastle University, UK), Iain Dixon (Newcastle University, UK), Julián Salas (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain)

17:00 - Wrap Up & Closing

Workshop MAIOT Session 1 - FGH136

Time: 13:30 – 15:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH136
Session Chair: TBD

13:30 – 14:00

Keynote: Pandora Talk –
Prof. Arno Jacobsen

ADAPT: Automated Decision-flow for Adaptive Progressive Inference on Sensor Devices
J. Macshane (University of California Irvine), N. Venkatasubramanian (University of California Irvine), Y. Li (University of California Irvine)

14:30 – 15:00 - ML Inference Scheduling with Predictable Latency
H. Zhao (Inria, Sorbonne University), N. Georgantas (Inria)

Workshop MAIOT Session 2 - FGH136

Time: 15:30 – 17:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH136
Session Chair: TBD

15:30 – 16:00 – The role of energy consumption prediction in Green Orchestration
I. Korontanis (Harokopio University of Athens), I. Kontopoulos (National Technical University of Athens), K. Tserpes (National Technical University of Athens), I. Varlamis (Harokopio University of Athens)

16:00- 16:30 – Workload-aware Power and Thermal Optimization for Edge/IoT Platforms using Modified Advantage Weighted Regression
S. Narayanan (Vanderbilt University), A. Raj (Vanderbilt University), S. Hajiamini (Vanderbilt University), A. Gokhale (Vanderbilt University)

16:30 – 17:00 – Not Just Fast, But Also Sustainable: Rethinking Network Routing
A. Samanta (University of Utah), Y. Jiang (Northeastern University), R. Stutsman (University of Utah), R. Roy (University of Utah)

Tutorial 1 - FGH136

Time: 08:30-12:00, 15 December 2025
Venue: FGH136
Session Chair: xx

08:30 - 10:00 Tutorial 1 : This Is INSANE! Kernel-Bypass Networking Finally Made Easy
Lorenzo Rosa

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break (Atrium area)

10:30 - 12:00 Tutorial 1 : This Is INSANE! Kernel-Bypass Networking Finally Made Easy
Lorenzo Rosa

Tutorial 2 - - FGH136

Time: 1:30-17:00, 15 December 2025
Venue: FGH136
Session Chair: TBD

13:30 to 15:00 Tutorial 2 : A Machine Learning-based Intelligent Middleware Platform for a Private Edge Cloud)
Sayed Shah

15:00 to 15:30 Coffee Break (Atrium area)

15:30 to 17:00 Tutorial 2 : A Machine Learning-based Intelligent Middleware Platform for a Private Edge Cloud)
Sayed Shah

Workshop MITOTI Session 1 - FGH134

Time: 08:30-12:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

08:30 - 08:45 Welcome and Agenda Overview

08:45 - 09:30
Keynote : "The Role of Web Assembly in IT/OT integration"
Chris Woods (Senior Key Expert | SME in Runtimes and Virtualization @ Siemens)


Chris is a senior technology leader with deep expertise in industrial research, innovation management, and emerging computing technologies. Over a 25-year career — including 15 years leading technical teams and multimillion-dollar research initiatives at Siemens, Huawei, Intel, and Microsoft. He has built a strong track record of bridging advanced research with real-world impact. His work spans WebAssembly (Wasm), distributed systems, edge computing, and cloud orchestration, consistently delivering technical innovation and business value. Chris is passionate about building high-performing teams, fostering industry collaboration, and shaping the future of technology.

09:30 - 10:00 - LLM-Assisted Robotic Trajectory Generation in PLC Environments
C Ding, Z Min, T Cui (Siemens, USA)

10:00 - 10:30 - Coffee Break

Workshop MITOTI Session 2 - FGH134

Time: 10:30-12:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

10:30 - 11:00 - Security in Converged IT-OT Manufacturing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities
F Frick, P Neher, A Lechler (University of Stuttgart), B Ward, D Balasubramanian, A Gokhale (Vanderbilt University)

11:00 - 11:30 Challenges and Opportunities in Secure Real-Time Digital Twin Systems for AR/VR-Enabled Smart Factories
Z Min (Siemens Corporation), R Shetty (OPEX Systems), S Shekhar (Siemens Corporation), A Chhokra (Vanderbilt University), M Kritzler, T Cui, A Gupta, T Ahlgrim (Siemens Corporation), J Reed (Virginia Tech), A Gokhale (Vanderbilt University)

11:30 - 12:00 Agent Shadowing: Edge-Driven Seamless Integration for Edge and Cloud AI Agents
M Sarkar, A Todkar, J Solanki (Siemens Corporation)

12:00 - 13:30 Lunch (Atrium Area)

Workshop MITOTI Session 3 - FGH134

Time: 13:30-15:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

13:30-14:15

WoSC Keynote:The Digital Fabric of Resilience: Integrating IoT, IT, and OT for the Cyber-Power Grid
Prof. Anurag K Srivastava, Raymond J. Lane Professor and Chairperson, Lane Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, Director, Smart Grid REsiliency and Analytics Lab (SG-REAL) West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA. Senior Scientist, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, WA

Abstract: As the electric grid evolves into a complex cyber-physical-human system, the seamless integration of Information Technology (IT), Operational Technology (OT), and Internet of Things (IoT) services has become critical to ensure grid resilience, security, and flexibility. Middleware technologies form the digital fabric that interweaves these layers, enabling real-time coordination, situational awareness, and distributed intelligence across the grid ecosystem. This talk explores how middleware and IoT-enabled services can enhance cyber-power grid resilience through scalable communication, computing and control architectures. Requirements for centralized, distributed, and decentralized control architectures will be discussed highlighting their respective implications for communication, computing, reliability, and system autonomy. Key topics include: a) Resilience-aware control architecture, b) Example of middleware including RIAPS, DCBlocks, GridStat including fog and edge computing for flexible orchestration enabling distributed, time-sensitive control and fault-tolerant coordination, c) Digital twin with IT/OT for validating control strategies and assessing resilience under cyber-physical stressors, d) Human-in-the-loop frameworks to couple operator cognition with adaptive, data-driven decision support. The presentation will highlight how a digitally woven, middleware-enabled fabric, linking IoT, IT, and OT, with metrics can transform the power grid into a flexible, and resilient infrastructure.
Biography Anurag K. Srivastava holds the Raymond J. Lane Professorship and serves as Chairperson of the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department at West Virginia University. Additionally, he is an adjunct professor at Washington State University and a senior scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Lab. He earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 2005. Dr. Srivastava's research focuses on data-driven algorithms and tools for cyber-resilient electric energy systems. His impactful research projects have resulted in the implementation of tools at utility control centers, supported by over $66M in funding from entities such as the US Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, Siemens Corporate Research, Electric Power Research Institute, Schweitzer Engineering Lab, Power System Engineering Research Center, Office of Naval Research, and various National Labs. Over the years, he has held visiting positions at organizations including Réseau de transport d´électricité in France, RWTH Aachen University in Germany, PEAK Reliability Coordinator, Idaho National Laboratory, PJM Interconnection, Schweitzer Engineering Lab (SEL), GE Grid Solutions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Mississippi State University. He is an IEEE Fellow, recepient of IEEE PES Pete Sauer Educator Award, numbers of best papers award, leading multiple IEEE technical subcommittee/ WGs (Power System Operation, Resiliency, Microgrid, voltage stability, distributed optimization), and the author of over 425 technical publications, 4 books, and 3 patents.

02:15 - 02:35 HIL-RESIST: Hardware-In-the-Loop testbed for RESilience evaluation against Integrated System Threats in power systems
A Chhokra (Vanderbilt University), S Shekhar, S Bhela, U Muenz (Siemens Corporation)

14:35 - 15:00 - An LLM-based Semantic Middleware for Energy Asset as a Service (EAaaS)
S Shekhar, W Mccafferty (Siemens Corporation)

15:00 - 15:30

Workshop MITOTI Session 4 - FGH134

Time: 15:30-17:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

15:30-16:00 MDMWARE: Model-Driven Domain-Specific Middleware as a Tool for IT/OT Integration in the Context of Smart Cities
P Melo, F Costa (Universidade Federal de Goias)

16:00-16:30 Knowledge-Graph-Centric Architecture for Reliable Fault Diagnosis
Z Min, A Bres, G Markov, A Krystallidis, A Neufeld, C Budnik, H Degen (Siemens Corporation)

16:30-17:00 Open Discussion: The Future of IT/OT
J Solanki, M Sarkar, A Todkar

Wrap Up and Closing

Workshop Mid4CC Session 1 - FGH134

Time: 08:30-10:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

08:30 – 09:00 Welcome and Agenda Overview

09:00 -- 09:30 - Dynamic Multi-Provider Cluster Autoscaling For The Computing Continuum
authors (affiliations)

09:30 -- 10:00 - Efficient Service Placement and Node Allocation in Fog and Edge Computing
authors (affiliations)

10:00 - 10:30 Break (Atrium area)

Workshop Mid4CC Session 2 - FGH134

Time: 10:30-12:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: TBD

10:30-11:00 - Self-Hosted WebAssembly Runtime for Runtime-Neutral Checkpoint/Restore in Edge–Cloud Continuum
authors (affiliations)

11:00-11:30 - Towards Cognitive Microservice Orchestration in the Multi-Cloud Continuum
authors (affiliations)

11:30-12:00 Wrap Up & Closing

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (Atrium/Lobby)

Tutorial 3

Time: 08:30-12:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH136
Session Chair: TBD

08:30 - 10:00 Tutorial 3 : Serverless Workflow Benchmarking with HSMFlow and WfBench
Anderson Da Silva

10:00 - 10:30 Break (Atrium area)

10:30 - 12:00 Tutorial 3 : Serverless Workflow Benchmarking with HSMFlow and WfBench
Anderson Da Silva

Doctoral Symposium Session 1 - FGH134

Time: 08:30-10:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: Andrew Chio & Fangqi Liu

8:30 - 8:40 Welcome and Introduction to Doctoral Symposium

8:40 - 9:20 : Mock Mini Defense Presentation
Title: Towards Improving Performance Efficiency of Serverless Platforms
Speaker: Amit Samanta, University of Utah
Mock Committee: Prof. Fábio Costa (Federal University of Goias), Prof. Daisuke Kotani (Kyoto University), Prof. Suyash Gupta (University of Oregon)

9:20 - 10:00 : Mock Mini Defense Presentation
Title: Efficient and Robust Middleware for Edge ML: Training-Time and Inference-Time Adaptivity
Speaker: Rahul Atul Bhope, University of California, Irvine
Mock Committee: Prof. Fábio Costa (Federal University of Goias), Prof. Daisuke Kotani (Kyoto University), Prof. Suyash Gupta (University of Oregon)

10:00 - 10:30 Break (Atrium area)

Doctoral Symposium Session 2 - FGH134

Time: 10:30-12:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: Andrew Chio & Fangqi Liu

10:30 - 10:45 -- Short Presentation
Title: Agentic AI Serverless Code Generation: Towards Autonomous Improvement of Performance, Cost, and Code Quality
Speaker: Xinghan Chen, University of Washington

10:45 - 11:00 -- Short Presentation
Title: Samurai: Slash Your Decentralized Storage
Speaker: Shistata Subedi, University of Oregon

11:00 - 11:15 -- Short Presentation
Title: Computationally Efficient Federated Unlearning
Speaker: Neil Sharma, University of Oregon

11:15 - 11:30 -- Short Presentation
Title: Model and Agentic AI-driven Middleware for Distributed Systems Design and Validation
Speaker: Sanjana Das, Vanderbilt University

11:30 - 12:00 -- Lightning Session - Elevator Pitches

12:00 - 13:00 Lunch (Atrium/Lobby)

Doctoral Symposium Session 3. - FGH134

Time: 13:00-14:30, 16 December 2025
Venue: FGH134
Session Chair: Andrew Chio & Fangqi Liu

1:30 - 1:45 -- Short Presentation
Title: Terraform: A Heterogeneity-Aware Client Selection Methodology For Efficient Federated Learning
Speaker: Nihal Balivada, University of Oregon

1:45 - 2:00 -- Short Presentation
Title: Decentralized Federated Learning with Adaptive Aggregator Selection
Speaker: Muhammad Kaleem Ullah Khan, École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS)

2:00 - 3:00 -- Panel: Making the Most of the PhD Journey
Panel Members: Prof. Abhishek Dubey (Vanderbilt University), Prof. Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto), Prof. Jan Rellermeyer (Leibniz Universität Hannover), Prof. Ziran Min (Siemens Corporation)

14:30 - 15:00 Break (Atrium area)

Doctoral Symposium Session 4 - FGH134

Time: 15:00-17:00, 16 December 2025
Venue: TBD
Session Chair: Andrew Chio & Fangqi Liu

3:30 - 4:10 -- Mock Mini Defense Presentation
Title: Toward Thorough and Practical Integration Testing of Replicated Data Systems
Speaker: Provakar Mondal, Virginia Tech
Mock Committee: Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine), Prof. Antonino Galletta (University of Messina, Italy), Prof. Ayan Mukhopadhyay (William & Mary)

4:10 - 4:50 -- Mock Mini Defense Presentation
Title: Achieving dependable IoT systems through adaptive and continual learning frameworks
Speaker: Ragini Gupta, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Mock Committee: Prof. Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine), Prof. Antonino Galletta (University of Messina, Italy), Prof. Ayan Mukhopadhyay (William & Mary)

4:50 - 5:00 Closing Remarks

Session 1 - Blockchain - FGH134

Time: 10:30-12:00, 17 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Dr. Suyash Gupta, University of Oregon, USA

Stabl: The Sensitivity of Blockchains to Failures. (video).
Vincent Gramoli (University of Sydney and Redbelly Network); Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL); Andrei Lebedev (University of Sydney); Gauthier Voron (EPFL)

CliqueSensus: Ephemeral Overlays for Efficient Attestation Dissemination in Ethereum 2.0
Alexandros Antonov, Evangelos Kolyvas, Spyros Voulgaris (Athens University of Economics and Business)

PANDAS: Peer-to-peer, Adaptive Networking Allowing Data Availability Sampling within Ethereum Consensus Timebounds
Matthieu Pigaglio (UCLouvain); Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University); Michal Çhrol (City, University of London); Felix Lange (Ethereum Foundation); Kaleem Peeroo (City, University of London); Sergi Rene (Datahops Labs); Ramin Sadre (UCLouvain); Vladimir Stankovic (City, University of London); Etienne Riviere (UCLouvain)

XChainWatcher: Identifying Anomalies in Cross-Chain Bridges
Andre Augusto (INESC-ID & Tecnico Lisboa); Rafael Belchior (INESC-ID, Tecnico Lisboa & Blockdaemon); Jonas Pfannschmidt (Blockdaemon); Andre Vasconcelos (INESC-ID, Tecnico Lisboa); Miguel Correia (INESC-ID, IST, ULisboa)

Session 2 - Cloud - FGH134

Time: 13:00–14:30, 17 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Dr. Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy

Always-On, Always-Mine: Federated Recommendation Systems on Personal Home Routers
Zhengquan Li (University of Michigan - Dearborn); Myungjin Lee (Cisco Systems); Zheng Song (University of Michigan - Dearborn)

Full Trust Alchemist: Reforging Attestation for Cloud-based Confidential Workloads
Anna Galanou, Florian Lubitz (TU Dresden); Hajeong Jeon (RWTH Aachen); Christof Fetzer (TU Dresden); Ruediger Kapitza (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Tiaccoon: Unified Access Control with Multiple Transports in Container Networks
Hiroya Onoe, Daisuke Kotani, Yasuo Okabe (Kyoto University)

Bringing GenAI awareness to Workload Management (Industry paper)
Kavya Govindarajan, Priyanka Naik, Seep Goel, Ashok Pon Kumar, Praveen Jayachandran (IBM Research, India)

Session 3 - Distributed ML - FGH134

Time: 15:00–16:30, 17 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Shashank Shekhar

UnifyFL: Enabling Decentralized Cross-Silo Federated Learning
Sarang S, Druva Dhakshinamoorthy, Aditya Shiva Sharma, Yuvraj Singh Bhadauria, Siddharth Chaitra Vivek, Arihant Bansal, Arnab K. Paul (BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India)

Argus: Quality-Aware High-Throughput Text-to-Image Inference Serving System
Shubham Agarwal, Subrata Mitra, Saud Iqbal (Adobe Research)

Shift Happens: Mixture of Experts based Continual Adaptation in Federated Learning
Rahul Atul Bhope (UC Irvine); K. R. Jayaram (IBM Research, NY, USA); Praveen Venkateswaran (IBM Research AI); Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine)

Exposing the Vulnerability of Decentralized Learning to Membership Inference Attacks Through the Lens of Graph Mixing
Ousmane Touat (CNRS, INSA Lyon - LIRIS); Jezekael Brunon, Yacine Belal (INSA Lyon - LIRIS); Julien Nicolas (CNRS, INSA Lyon - LIRIS, McGill - ILLS); Mohamed Maouche (INRIA, INSA Lyon - CITI); César Sabater, Sonia Ben Mokhtar (CNRS, INSA Lyon - LIRIS)

Demo and Posters

Time: 18:00–19:30, 18 December 2025
Room: Demo and Posters (Atrium/Lobby)

FDPVirt+: Reclaim Group Enabled NVMe FDP Emulation
Joonyeop Park and Hyeonsang Eom

Poster Abstract: Understanding Tradeoffs of Replicated Data Library Integration Strategies in Multilingual Environments
Provakar Mondal and Eli Tilevich

DnD: Automating Discovery and Deployment of Realistic Network Topologies for Cyber Defense
Sanjana Das, Akhilesh Raj, Himanshu Neema, Daniel Balasubramanian, Aniruddha Gokhale

OptiSeq: Ordering-Aware Natural Language to API Sequence Generation
Rahul Atul Bhope and Nalini Venkatasubramanian

Session 4 - Distributed Systems. - FGH134

Time: 10:00–12:00, 18 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Prof. Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University, USA

Adjusted Objects: An Efficient and Principled Approach to Scalable Programming
Boubacar Kane, Pierre Sutra (Telecom SudParis)

FreeRide: Harvesting Bubbles in Pipeline Parallelism
Jiashu Zhang, Zihan Pan, Molly Xu, Khuzaima Daudjee, Sihang Liu (University of Waterloo)

ER-pi: Exhaustive Interleaving Replay for Testing Replicated Data Library Integration
Provakar Mondal, Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech)

LLM-Aided Customizable Profiling Platform For Code Data Based On Programming Language Concepts (Industry paper)
Pankaj Thorat, Adnan Qidwai, Adrija Dhar, Aishwariya Chakraborty, Anand Eswaran, Hima Patel, Praveen Jayachandran (IBM Research, India)

ACM Middleware Test-of-Time (2014–2024) Award :
Mitigating Interference in Cloud Services by Middleware Reconfiguration
Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN)

Session 5 - Fault Tolerance. - FGH134

Time: 13:00–14:30, 18 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Dr. Mohammad Sadoghi, University of California, Davis, CA 95616

Byzantine-Resilient Federated Computation of Differentially Private Summary Statistics
Giulio Segalini (University de Neuchatel; Maria Fernandes (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark); Jeremie Decouchant (Delft University of Technology)

MiAR-BFT: Efficient Leaderless Consensus Based on Multi-instance Asynchronous Running for Blockchain
Zhenyu Zhang, Xing Tong, Zhao Zhang, Cheqing Jin (East China Normal University)

Message Size Matters: AlterBFT, An Approach to Practical Synchronous BFT in Public Clouds
Nenad Milosevic (University della Svizzera italiana (USI)); Daniel Cason, Zarko Milosevic (Informal Systems); Robert Soule (Yale University); Fernando Pedone (University della Svizzera italiana (USI))

Recipe: Hardware-Accelerated Replication Protocols
Dimitra Giantsidi (Microsoft Research Cambridge); Emmanouil Giortamis (TU Munich); Julian Pritzi (Technical University of Munich); Maurice Bailleu (Huawei Research); Manos Kapritsos (University of Michigan); Pramod Bhatotia (Technical University of Munich (TUM))

Session 6 - Hardware. - FGH134

Time: 15:00–16:30, 18 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Sihang Liu

HARP: Energy-Aware and Adaptive Management of Heterogeneous Processors
Till Smejkal, Robert Khasanov, Jeronimo Castrillon, Hermann Hartig (TU Dresden)

xMem: A CPU-Based Approach for Accurate Estimation of GPU Memory in Deep Learning Training Workloads. (video)
Jiabo Shi, Dimitrios Pezaros, Yehia Elkhatib (University of Glasgow)

MVTEE: Multi-Variant Trusted Execution for Secure Model Inference
Kailun Qin, Dawu Gu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

svc-hook: hooking system calls on ARM64 by binary rewriting (short paper)
Akira Moroo (Ricerca Security, Inc.); Hajime Tazaki, Kenichi Yasukata (IIJ Research Laboratory)

Session 7 - Edge Computing, - FGH134

Time: 16.45-17.45, 18 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Giuseppe Di Modica

EdgeConnector: Enabling Seamless and Efficient Cross-Cluster Device Access in Edge Environment
Yunna Cui, Liwei Shen, Bingkun Sun, Wente Lu, Haojie Zhang, Xin Peng (Fudan University)

Capybara: an Edge-Friendly Distributed Object Store for Diverse Serverless Functions
Xin Chen (Georgia Institute of Technology); Manoj Prabhakar Paidiparthy (Virginia Tech); Chen Qian, Liting Hu (University of California Santa Cruz)

A Hybrid Runtime for Function-as-a-Service at the Edge
Adam Hall (Georgia Institute of Technology); Umakishore Ramachandran (Georgia Tech)


Session 8 - Systems. - FGH134

Time: 10:00–12:00, 19 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Pierre Sutra

Leveraging Approximate Caching for Faster Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Shai Bergman (Huawei); Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Diana Petrescu, Rafael Pires, Mathis Randl, Martijn de Vos (EPFL); Ji Zhang (Huawei)

MTAT: Adaptive Fast Memory Management for Co-located Latency-Critical Workloads in Tiered Memory System
Minho Kim, Seonggyu Han (DGIST); Gyeongseo Park (ETRI); Daehoon Kim (Yonsei University)

FlexClone: Efficient, Flexible and Pluggable File Cloning Support for Filesystems. (video).
Rohit Singh, Debadatta Mishra (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur)

Blockchain Inception: Scheduling and Caching Optimizations for supporting a PoW Blockchain on the Internet Computer
Maksym Arutyunyan, Andriy Berestovskyy, Adam Bratschi-Kaye, Dragoljub Ðurić, Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dimitris Sarlis, Alin Sinpalean, Alexandru Uta (DFINITY, Zürich, Switzerland)

ACM Middleware Test-of-Time (2015–2025) Award
R-Storm: Resource-Aware Scheduling in Storm

Boyang Peng and Mohammad Hosseini and Zhihao Hong and Reza Farivar and Roy H. Campbell

Session 9 - Security and Privacy - FGH134

Time: 13:00–14:30, 19 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Fabio Costa

IM-PIR: In-Memory Private Information Retrieval
Mpoki Mwaisela, Peterson Yuhala, Pascal Felber, Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland)

WasmEye: Language- and Platform-independent Anomaly Detection for WebAssembly
Arne Vogel, Timothee Gloerfeld, Alexander Szekely-Schenker (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg); Thomas Trenner, Rene Ermler (Siemens); Ruediger Kapitza (FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg)

PAMO: Pattern Matching Offload for Intrusion Detection Systems
Lukas Sismis (CESNET, BUT FIT); Colin Evrard, Etienne Riviere, Tom Barbette (UCLouvain)

Clair Obscur: The Light and Shadow of System Call Interposition -- From Pitfalls to Solutions with K23
Jesus Maia Gomez Moreno, Vissarion Moutafis (TU Delft); Antreas Dionysiou (TU Delft/Frederick University); Fernando Kuipers, Georgios Smaragdakis (TU Delft); Bart Coppens (Ghent University); Alexios Voulimeneas (TU Delft)

Session 10 - Serverless. - FGH134

Time: 15:00–16:30, 19 December 2025
Room: Main auditorium
Session Chair: Aniruddha Gokhale

Mocha: Scalable and Compliant Function Scheduling for Federated Serverless Computing
Yuqiu Zhang, Hans-Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto)

Efficient Performance Guarantees for Function-as-a-Service with Cloud Allocators
Hai Duc Nguyen (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago); Andrew A Chien (University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory)

FaaSImage: An Efficient Image Manager for FaaS. (video)
Abhisek Panda, Smruti R Sarangi (IIT Delhi)

Roadrunner: Accelerating Data Delivery to WebAssembly-Based Serverless Functions
Cynthia Marcelino, Thomas Pusztai, Stefan Nastic (TU Wien)

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