PhD Research School 2026
Advances in Learned Systems
PhD Research School Overview
Join us for the second annual PhD Research School event hosted by the Learning Directed Operating System Expedition. This event explores the fields of operating systems, networked systems, machine learning, formal methods, and security, bringing together experts and early-career researchers to discuss the latest advancements and challenges in these domains.
Over the course of two days, participants will engage in a focused program that includes tutorials, lectures, and research presentations. The event will feature research presentations from leading experts in the field, allowing attendees to deepen their understanding of cutting-edge research. Participation is limited to a small number of students in order to foster deep conversations.
Dates
June 16-17, 2025
Location
Morgridge Hall
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Virtual Attendance
Zoom link
Meeting ID: 956 9501 3387
Passcode: 496810
Agenda
View abstracts and speaker information
Day 1: June 16, 2025 | ||
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | Check-in and Breakfast | [Teddywedgers] |
| 9:00 - 9:30 AM | Welcome, Opening Remarks, & Event Overview | Shivaram Venkataraman & Sujay Yadalam |
| 9:30 - 10:15 AM | Learning-Directed Operating Systems: Vision and Progress | Michael Swift |
| 10:15 - 11:00 AM | Infrastructure Automation: The journey from Software-Defined to Autonomic | Sujata Banerjee |
| 11:00 - 11:45 PM | Towards Trustworthy Learning-Driven Systems | Eric Hayden Campbell |
| 11:45-1:30 PM | Lunch | [Banzo] |
| 1:30 - 2:15 PM | Self-defining systems. | Ratul Mahajan |
| 2:15 - 3:00 PM | Lightning Talks | Steven Dong Nitin Kedia Fariha Tabassum Islam Hongyu Hè Suyan Qu |
| 3:00 - 3:30 | Coffee Break | [UW-Madison Catering] |
| 3:30 - 4:40 PM | Student Lightning Talks | Wanyu Zhao Yeonju Ro Yajie (Lesley) Zhou Suwei Ma Thanathorn Sukprasert Hayden Coffey Roozbeh Bostandoost Ahmed Dajani Jiayi Chen Shashwat Jaiswal |
| 5:00 - 6:00 PM | Break | -- |
| 6:00 - 8:30 PM | Dinner on your own | Terrace at Memorial Union |
Day 2: June 17, 2025 | ||
| Time | Activity | Speaker |
| 8:30 - 9:00 AM | Breakfast | [UW Madison Catering] |
| 10:00 - 11:00 AM | Tutorial on LDOS Systems: Kermit: Accelerating ML Policy Development | Saurabh Agarwal |
| 9:00 - 10:00 AM | Tutorial on LDOS Systems: Vulcan | Rohit Dwivedula |
| 11:00 - 12:15 PM | Lunch Break | [Paul's Pel'meni] |
| 12:15 - 1:00 PM | Example Selection and Post-Training Quantization for Large-Scale Machine Learning | Chris De Sa |
| 1:00 - 1:45 PM | Controlling AI Workloads | Hank Hoffman |
| 1:45 - 2:00 PM | Coffee/Break | [UW-Madison Catering] |
| 2:00 - 2:45 PM | Safe and Deployable Reinforcement Learning for Reason and Action | Josiah Hanna |
| 2:45 - 3:15 PM | GPU Accelerated Lakehouse | Swami Sundararaman |
| 3:15 - 4:45 PM | Student Lightning Talks | Kalyan Pullela Yuanyuan (Chloe) Yang Gaurav Vipat Divyanshu Saxena Michael Noguera Johannes Freischuetz Xiangyu Gao Ron Wang Donghyun Kim Shreesha Gopalakrishna Bhat |
| 4:45 - 5:00 PM | Final Activity | Shivaram Venkataraman |
| 6:00 - 8:00 PM | Students are encouraged to organize and meet for dinner | -- |
Associated Costs
If you are accepted to the PhD Research School, there is no registration fee for attending. Student participants who are not local to the UW-Madison area will have lodging covered and travel expenses reimbursed up to $800 through the LDOS Expedition Participant Support Funds.