Doctoral Workshop

Overview

Introduction

The 14th EuroSys Doctoral Workshop (EuroDW 2020) 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. We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies.

EuroDW 2020 will also offer the opportunity for what we call “mentoring moments”. 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.

EuroDW 2020 has transformed into a virtual event, using the Zoom platform for streaming pre-recorded 5 min talks followed by 5 min live Q&A. We will additionally feature a #eurodw20 Slack channel in the main EuroSys Slack workspace where interaction can continue asynchronously during the workshop. We would like to thank our mentors who will provide remote mentoring to EuroDW students of accepted papers.

The program is ready! To register, please follow this link. 
Please register well in-advance, as registrations require a couple of days to be processed.

All times are in CET (GMT+2).

13:30 – 15:00	Session 1: Memory and data subsystems Chair: Evangelia Kalyvianaki
	Welcome message from the PC Chairs
	AutoDBMS: Auto-Tuning Database Management Systems Sami Alabed (University of Cambridge) Mentor: Amitabha Roy, Google
	OmniReduce: Efficient Sparse Collective Operations via Smart Aggregators Chen-Yu Ho and Marco Canini (KAUST) Mentor: Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
	A Storage Software Stack for Accelerators Shinichi Awamoto ( IIJ Innovation Institute Inc) Mentor: Zsolt Istvan, IMDEA Software Institute
	Novel adaptation mechanisms for distributed data stores Antonis Papaioannou (University of Crete) Mentor: Rüdiger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig
	Finding Bugs in Non-Volatile Memory Programs David Aksun and James Larus (EPFL) Mentor: Irene Zhang, Microsoft Research
	BMC: Accelerating Memcached using safe in-kernel caching and pre-stack processing Yoann Ghigoff (Sorbonne Université, Inria, LIP6 / Orange Labs) Mentor: Pascal Felber, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland
	Intelligent and Cost-Efficient Data Management for Hybrid Memory Systems Thaleia Dimitra Doudali and Ada Gavrilovska ( Georgia Institute of Technology) Mentor: Antonio Barbalace, Stevens Institute of Technology
	Achieving High Throughput and Elasticity in a Larger-than-Memory Store Chinmay Kulkarni ( University of Utah) (accepted but not presenting) Mentor: Tim Harris, Amazon
15:00 – 15:30	Break
15:30 – 17:00	Session 2: Resource and dependability management Chair: Lydia Y. Chen
	Towards robust learning systems Amirmasoud Ghiassi and Lydia Y. Chen (TU Delft) Mentor: Tim Harris, Amazon
	A new environment for composable and dependable distributed computing Benoit Martin, Laurent Prosperi, and Marc Shapiro (Sorbonne Université, CNRS, INRIA, LIP6) Mentor: Rodrigo Rodrigues, IST (ULisboa) / INESC-ID
	Exploring the Extensibility of a Symbolically Executable Hypervisor Alexander Kammeyer (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt) Mentor: Mark Silberstein, Technion
	Decentralized Approach to Low Latency Global Scheduling Smita Vijayakumar, Anil Madhavapeddy, Evangelia Kalyvianaki (University of Cambridge) Mentor: Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, DFINITY
	INCAS: In-Network Compute Aware Scheduler Konstantinos Fertakis (Imperial College London) Mentor: Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge
	HoneyPlant: A Distributed Hybrid Honeypot System for ICS Security Sam Maesschalck, Vasileios Giotsas, Benjamin Green, and Nicholas Race ( Lancaster University) Mentor: Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University
	The Modeling and Management of Computational Sprinting Nathaniel Morris (The Ohio State University) Mentor: Guillaume Pierre, IRISA / University of Rennes 1
	Data Distribution and Exploitation in a Global-Scale Microservice Artefact Observatory Panagiotis Gkikopoulos, Josef Spillner (Zurich University of Applied Sciences) and Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuchâtel) Mentor: Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research

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://eurosys2020dw.hotcrp.com/

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

• Abstract
• Introduction (problem statement, an overview of the proposed work, main differences from existing works)
• Overview of the proposed work
• Preliminary results (if applicable)
• Work to be done (description of the planned work to address the proposed research problem and brief timeline to PhD completion)
• Related work

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

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

In addition, please include the following information in your submission form:

• PhD advisor’s name and affiliation
• Year when you started your PhD
• Expected submission date of the PhD thesis

 

Important Dates

Submission due: February 21th, 2020 (23:59 hrs CET) Extended submission due: March 1^st, 2020 (anywhere on earth)

Acceptance notification: March 13th, 2020

Student grant application deadline: March 20, 2020

Workshop: April 27, 2020