Student Summit on Mobility, Systems, and Networking

Welcome, introductions, and agenda

Victor Bahl, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research

Student lightning talks: session 1

• Weaver: A High-Performance, Transaction Graph Store Based on Refinable Timestamps – Ayush Dubey, Cornell University
• Toward Eidetic Distributed File Systems – Xianzheng Dou, University of Michigan
• Operating System Services for Mobile/Cloud Applications – Irene Zhang, University of Washington
• High-Performance ACID via Modular Concurrency Control – Chunzhi Su, University of Texas, Austin
• Universal Packet Scheduling – Radhika Mittal, University of California, Berkeley

Student lightning talks: session 2

• A Smartphone-based System for Assessing Intraocular Pressure – Alex Mariakakis, University of Washington
• Towards More Defensive Mobile OS Against Disruptive App Behavior – Peng Huang, University of California, San Diego
• Taint Tracking on Modern Mobile Platforms – Ali Razeen, Duke University
• FingerIO: Using Active Sonar for Fine-Grained Finger Tracking – Rajalakshmi Nandakumar, University of Washington
• Cloudlet: System infrastructure for Mobile-Cloud Conversance – Kiryong Ha, Carnegie Mellon University
• VideoLoc: Video-based Indoor Localization – He Wang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Keynote

Big Data Challenges in a Product Group – Johannes Gehrke, Distinguished Engineer, Applications and Services Group

Student lightning talks: session 3

• Declarative Network Path Queries – Srinivas Narayana, Princeton University
• Practical, Real-time Centralized Control for CDN-based Live Video Delivery – Matthew Mukerjee, Carnegie Mellon University
• High Speed Networks Need Proactive Congestion Control – Lavanya Jose, Stanford University
• Scheduling the Datacenter Network in Microseconds – Jonathan Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• RF-IDraw: Virtual Touch Screen in the Air Using RF-Signals – Deepak Vasisht, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• CFA: A Practical Prediction System for Video QoE Optimization – Junchen Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University

Student lightning talks: session 4

• Minimizing Faulty Executions of Distributed Systems – Colin Scott, University of California, Berkeley
• On Coexistence Between Wi-Fi and LTE-U – Lei Kang, University of Madison, Wisconsin
• Be Fast, Cheap and in Control with SwitchKV – Xiaozhou Li, Princeton University
• PolyPoint and the First Steps Towards Ubiquitous Location – Pat Pannuto, University of Michigan
• Argos: Practical Massive MU-MIM – Clayton Shepard, Rice University
• Battery-Free, Connected Machine Vision – Saman Naderiparizi, University of Washington

Poster session and cocktails

• Efficient System Support for Continuous Mobile Vision – Robert LiKamWa, Rice University
• CAreDroid: Adaptation Framework for Context-Aware Applications on Mobile Phones – Salma Elmalaki, University of California, Los Angeles
• TARDiS: A Branch and Merge Approach to Weak Consistency – Natacha Crooks, University of Texas, Austin
• Simplifying Software-Defined Network Optimization Using SOL – Victor Heorhiadi, University of North Carolina
• Hyperbolic Caching: Better and More Modular Priority Functions for Web Apps – Aaron Blankstein, Princeton University
• Personalizing Pervasive Services with Small Data Traces – Longqi Yang, Cornell University
• Meeting Latency Bounds of Wearable Cognitive Assistance – Zhuo Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
• CFA: A Practical Prediction System for Video QoE Optimization – Juchen Jiang, Carnegie Mellon University
• Sleep Stage Mining Using Wireless Signals – Ruth Vinisha Ravichandran, University of Washington
• Subways: A Case for Redundant, Inexpensive Data Center Edge Links – Vincent Liu, University of Washington
• Scalable Network Forensics – Matthias Vallentin, University of California, Berkeley
• Micro Load Balancing in Data Centers with DRILL – Soudeh Ghorbani, University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign
• A Versatile Gateway Architecture for City-Scale Sensing – Brad Campbell, University of Michigan
• ZCSI: A New NF Framework – Aurojit Panda, University of California, Berkeley
• Distributed Transactions on Geo-spatial Data – Kai Mast, Cornell University
• Neutral Net Neutrality: Expressing User Preferences with Network Cookies – Yiannis Yiakoumis, Stanford University

Student lightning talks: session 5

• Communicating through Physical Vibration – Nirupam Roy, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Design of low-latency high-reliability wireless communication protocol: enabling future tech – Vasuki Narasimha Swamy
• The Sensing Power of Wireless Networks – Fadel Adib, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• iShadow: The Computational Eyeglass System – Addison Mayberry, University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Software Augmented Buildings: Exploiting Existing Infrastructure to Improve Energy Efficiency and Comfort in Commercial Buildings – Bharathan Balaji, University of California San Diego
• Tock: A Secure Operating System for Embedded Systems – Amit Levy, Stanford University

Break

Breakout sessions

Working group 1: Cloud and big data systems
Moderator: Srikanth Kandula, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research

Distributed storage, cloud virtualization, containers and tools, systems for data analytics, resource management, trusted cloud, replication, geo-distribution

Working group 2: Mobile and wearable systems
Moderator: Venkat Padmanabhan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Micro-data centers (cloudlets), sensing, energy management, mobile services, continuous mobile vision, gaming, app analytics, security and privacy

Working group 3: Networking
Moderator: Jitu Padhye, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Network programming, edge networking, software-defined networking, data center networking, virtualization, middle-boxes, verification, monitoring and diagnostics

Working group 4: Wireless systems
Moderator: Bozidar Radunovic, Researcher, Microsoft Research

Low-cost access, RF for sensing, energy harvesting, mm-wave networking, MIMO and smart antennas, localization

Working group 5: Internet-of-Things
Moderator: Ratul Mahajan, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research

Architecture; edge computation; security; low-power wireless; apps for the enterprise, home, and manufacturing; network of cameras; smart objects; sensing

Lunch and Talk

The Intelligent Cloud – Vijay Narayanan, Partner Director of Software Engineering, Machine Learning and Data Science, Cloud and Enterprise

Microsoft Engineering talks

• Engineering SDN for scale – Deepak Bansal, Partner Software Engineering Manager, Cloud and Enterprise
• Continuum: evolving the mobile experience – Abolade Gbadegesin, Partner Software Engineer, Operating Systems Group
• Building a Datacenter Scale Analytics Platform – Sriram Rao, Partner Scientist Manager, Cloud and Information Services Lab, Cloud and Enterprise

Working group presentations & Feedback