The 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles
October 26-29, 2021

SOSP 2021 Diversity Workshop

The Diversity Workshop 2021 (October 25th 2021) seeks to foster community amongst traditionally underrepresented groups in Systems research. In addition to registering on the SOSP website, please also fill out this form indicating your interest. Everyone is welcome but we will give preference to researchers who traditionally self-identity as underrepresented.

For any questions, please reach out to Natacha Crooks or Amy Tai.

Monday, October 25, 2021

Welcome 06:50 - 07:00 (UTC-07:00)
  • Natacha Crooks, UC Berkeley
  • Amy Tai, VMWare Research
Ask Me Anything 07:00 - 08:00 (UTC-07:00)
AMA participants will have the opportunity to ask the panelists questions on any academic related topic. Questions will be asked on Zoom and answered live.
  • Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
  • Kim Keeton, Google
  • Moderator: Redha Gouicem, TU Munich
Elevator Pitch 08:00 - 09:00 (UTC-07:00)
Following a brief presentation, students will be split into breakout groups and have the opportunity to practice their elevator pitch. A friendly competition with prizes (kindly sponsored by Google) will follow.
  • John Wilkes, Google
Break (15 minutes) 09:00 - 09:15 (UTC-07:00)
Topic Breakout Rooms 09:15 - 10:15 (UTC-07:00)
Participants will have the opportunity to choose a topic-specific breakout room. Each breakout room will be moderated by two experts in the field. Please come prepared to discuss your research or ask questions.
Consensus/Blockchain/Distributed Systems/Serverless
  • Marcos Aguilera, VMWare Research
  • Naama BenDavid, VMWare Research
OS + Emerging Hardware (RDMA, Pmem, smartNICs)
  • Alain Tchana, ENS Lyon
  • Jing Liu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
ML + Systems
  • Joey Gonzalez, UC Berkeley
  • Jayashree Mohan, Microsoft Research India
System Security
  • Fraser Brown, CMU
Verification
  • Manos Kapritsos, University of Michigan
  • Jialin Li, University of Washington
Networking
  • Vibhaa Sivaraman, MIT
  • Theophilus Benson, Brown University
Break (15 minutes) 10:15 - 10:30 (UTC-07:00)
Mid-Career AMA 10:30 - 11:30 (UTC-07:00)
AMA participants will have the opportunity to ask the panelists questions on any academic related topic. Questions will be asked on Zoom and answered live.
  • Jana Giveca, TU Munich
  • Riad Wahby, CMU
  • Radhika Mittal, UIUC
  • Irene Zhang, Microsoft Research Redmond
  • Moderator: Stella Bitchebe, ENS Lyon