Fridays 1-2PM, DSL Conference Room
The DSL Seminar is a weekly gathering of the research students and professors in the Distributed Systems Laboratory. We discuss research ideas and specific projects within the University of Pennsylvania as well as external to Penn. We welcome visitors to participate as both speakers and audience members. Funding for DSL seminar lunches is sponsored by Vanguard and Comcast.
If you have an interest to do a presentation in DSL, please fill out this Google form.
Schedule for Spring 2026
| Date | Speaker | TOPIC/REMARKS |
|---|---|---|
| January 16 | Kickoff Meeting | |
| January 23 | Satadal Sengupta | Network-Boosted Applications |
| January 30 | Yifan Cai | GeoShield: Byzantine Fault Detection and Recovery for Geo-Distributed Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems |
| February 6 | Tao Luo | GPU scheduling in Agentic Reinforcement Learning at Alibaba |
| February 13 | ||
| February 20 | Spyros Pavlatos | 𝝀-trim: Optimizing Function Initialization in Serverless Applications With Cost-driven Debloating |
| February 27 | ||
| March 6 | Grace Jia | TBD |
| March 13 | Spring Break | |
| March 20 | Paul Biberstein | TBD |
| March 27 | Sujay Yadalam | TBD |
| April 3 | ||
| April 10 | Yue Guan | TBD |
| April 17 | Mengjia Yan | TBD |
| April 24 | Yiran Lei | TBD |