EuroSys Doctoral Workshop 2025

(EuroDW '25)

 

Overview

The 20th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop (EuroDW '25) will provide a forum for PhD students to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field, as well as from peers. Technical presentations will be augmented with general advice and discussions about getting a PhD, doing research, and career perspectives. EuroDW '25 will also offer the opportunity for mentoring. The idea is to give graduate students a chance to talk one-on-one (or, in some cases, one-on-two) about their research with outstanding researchers beyond those available at the students’ universities.

We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies. Historically, the doctoral workshop has been helpful for both junior and senior students.

Workshop Format

This year, the workshop will take place in an in-person format. We look forward to seeing you in Rotterdam, during EuroSys 2025.

Program

Monday 31/03/2025
08:30 - 09:15 Registration
09:15 - 09:30 Welcome
09:30 - 10:30 Keynote: Challenges in Networking for AIML Clusters
Costin Raiciu (Broadcom, University Politehnica of Bucharest)
10:30 - 11:00
11:00 - 12:30
  • MoE-CAP: Analyzing Cost, Accuracy and Performance of Sparse Mixture-of-Experts Systems
    Yinsicheng Jiang (University of Edinburgh)
  • Modular Data and Parallelization Abstractions for Programming Heterogeneous Systems
    Jonas Sys, Christophe Scholliers (Universiteit Gent); Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  • Testing and comparing real-world blockchains under strain
    Vaibhav Arora (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa)
  • Niruwalee: False Base Stations Detection and Localization; Exemplifying AI in Next Generation Networks
    Amy Sokhna Sidibé, Ashwin Rao (University of Helsinki)
  • BitDecoding: Efficient Decoding for Long-Context LLMs with Low-Bit KV-Cache
    Dayou Du (University of Edinburgh)
  • Optimizing Inference Serving Systems for Emerging Foundation Models
    Konstantinos Papaioannou, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali (IMDEA Software Institute)
12:30 - 13:45
14:00 - 15:30
  • Improvise, Adapt, Overcome: Embracing Dynamic Resource Management in Post-Moore Clouds
    Tejas Harith, Antoine Kaufmann (MPI-SWS)
  • Software-Level Resource Disaggregation for Large-Scale HPC Infrastructures
    José Pedro Peixoto (INESC TEC & U.Minho)
  • Smart and Sustainable Cloud Resource Management with Minimal Use of Machine Intelligence
    Georgia Christofidi, Thaleia Dimitra Doudali (IMDEA Software Institute)
  • Using FL strategies to enhance learning in P2P environments
    Susana Marques (INESC TEC and University of Minho)
  • Efficient Federated Search for Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    Diana Petrescu (EPFL)
  • Low-Cost Privacy Preserving Decentralized Learning
    Milos Vujasinovic (EPFL)
15:30 - 16:00
16:00 - 16:30
  • Towards Optimal Memory Tiering
    Johannes Freischuetz (University of Wisconsin - Madison), Shivaram Venkataraman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  • Mixed Consistency in Distributed Data Storage
    Philipp Lersch (RPTU Kaiserslautern)
16:30 - 17:00

Program Details

Keynote: Challenges in Networking for AIML Clusters
Speaker: Costin Raiciu (Broadcom, University Politehnica of Bucharest)
Abstract: Despite the commonly held belief that the network is not the bottleneck in datacenters, training machine-learning workloads is network bound and has lead to the deployment of fully provisioned folded Clos topologies. Even so, in production that communication makes up 15% to 75% of training time depending on the model, and this is expected to become worse as training clusters increase in size; worse, existing transports fail to properly utilize the available core capacity. We analyze in detail how we can improve networking for AI/ML training, with a particular focus on understanding how to build an efficient multipath transport protocol and congestion control to achieve good performance for difficult collective communications such as all-to-all. We will give an overview of the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, a novel standardisation body that is defining the transport for AIML networks.
Speaker's Bio: Bio Costin Raiciu is Chief Architect in Broadcom's Core Switching Group and Professor at University Politehnica of Bucharest where he leads the Netsys group. Costin has received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from University Politehnica of Bucharest in 2003 and 2004, and his PhD from University College London in 2011. Costin's work is at the area of networking, operating systems and verification. His main work includes design and implementation of Multipath TCP [RFC8684, RFC6356], lightweight virtualization (LightVM [SOSP17] and FlexOS [ASPLOS22]) and verification (Symnet[SIGCOMM'16], BF4 [Sigcomm'20]). Costin is very keen on pushing his research work into production, with Multipath TCP a prime example of deployed work. Costin is now part of the team standardizing next generation networking at the Ultra Ethernet Consortium, a protocol that is partly based on his prior work called EQDS (NSDI'22).

Goal of the Workshop

The goal of the workshop is to provide feedback and advice to PhD students both on technical aspects of their research as well as career development. We expect a range of participants such as the presenters' peers, as well as senior researchers who will attend to share their expertise and provide constructive feedback. The idea is to create opportunities for students to meet with peers outside of their home institution, to get technical feedback as well as career advice from senior researchers in their field, to find out about internship and job opportunities, and to articulate their own work in a public, non-threatening forum. We encourage the participants to stay for the duration of the EuroSys main conference.

We expect most submissions to be from current PhD students who have selected a clear research topic. Research topics of interest cover computing systems in the broadest sense, including work on formal foundations, as well as the design, implementation and evaluation of real systems.

More specifically, research topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Operating systems
  • Distributed systems
  • Cloud computing and datacenter systems
  • File and storage systems
  • Networked systems
  • Language support and runtime systems
  • Systems security and privacy
  • Dependable systems
  • Analysis, testing and verification of systems
  • Database systems and data analytics frameworks
  • Virtualization and virtualized systems
  • Systems for machine learning/machine learning for systems
  • Mobile and pervasive systems
  • Parallelism, concurrency, and multicore systems
  • Real-time, embedded, and cyber-physical systems
  • Systems for emerging hardware

Note: the workshop is not a venue for publication; there will be no published proceedings. Work-in-progress or simultaneous submissions are allowed (and in fact encouraged) from the perspective of EuroDW.

Submission Instructions

If you would like to participate in the workshop, please submit your materials before the deadline. Submissions will receive written feedback from the PC, but the submission process is very lightweight and the main purpose is to put together the program and to match students with mentors.

Submission site: https://eurodw25.hotcrp.com/

Submissions should be up to 2 pages (including title and figures but excluding references) and should only include the following sections:

  • Abstract
  • Introduction (problem statement, an overview of the proposed work, main differences from prior work)
  • Overview of the proposed work
  • Preliminary results (if applicable)
  • Work to be done (description of the planned work to address the proposed research problem)
  • Related work

Submissions will be assessed based on the importance, clarity, and relevance to EuroSys of the research problem, excellent understanding of the core related work, a realistic and clear roadmap to work completion towards the PhD, and the overall quality of the submitted paper.

Please note that there will be no published proceedings. Submissions shall be in .pdf, 2-column, single-spaced, 10pt format.

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: Feb 17, 2025 (AoE)
  • Acceptance notification: Feb 21, 2025 (AoE)
  • Workshop: March 31, 2025

Organizers

Workshop Chairs

You can contact the workshop chairs at haitham.alhassanieh@epfl.ch and sanidhya.kashyap@epfl.ch with any questions or concerns.