Timetable

Time Description Speaker Affiliation
8:15 AM - 8:50 AM Breakfast
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM Welcome / Intro
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote: Programming Programmable Money Maurice Herlihy Brown
10:00 AM - 11:45 AM Posters
11:45 AM - 12:45 PM Lunch
12:45 PM - 1:05 PM Scheduling with Massively Heterogeneous Resource Requirements Izzy Grosof Northwestern
1:05 PM - 1:25 PM Synthesizing Fine-grained State Checks for Curriculum Fuzzing Kexin Pei UChicago
1:25 PM - 1:45 PM Scalable Video Conferencing using SDN Principles Oliver Michel Illinois Tech
1:45 PM - 2:05 PM Improving Confidence in Static Analysis Tools via Metamorphic Testing Austin Mordahl UIC
2:05PM - 2:25 PM Towards Enhancing Trust and Security in Interpretable Deep Learning Systems Mohammed Abuhamad Loyola
2:25 PM - 2:45 PM Reliability-Aware Design and Optimization of Quantum Circuits on NISQ Devices Jindi Wu DePaul
2:45 PM - 3:00 PM Break
(with Snacks, Drinks, & Coffee)
3:00 PM - 3:45 PM Keynote: How to Give AI a Bad Carbon Footprint Dave Patterson Google
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Break
4:00 PM - 4:20 PM Towards Humanoid Robot Laboratory Assistants Nicola Ferrier Argonne
4:20 PM - 4:40 PM Performance Tuning - there's no such thing as the fastest code... Matt Godbolt Hudson River Trading
4:40 PM - 5:10 PM Databases: The Final Boss of Agents Andy Pavlo Carnegie Mellon University
5:10 PM - 5:40 PM UpDown: Breaking through the ceiling on Graph Computing Performance Andrew Chien UChicago
5:40 PM - 6:10 PM Performance Engineering for Parallel Systems Bill Gropp UIUC
6:10 - 6:20 PM Closing Remarks

Important Dates

Friday, April 17, 2026

Poster Abstract Submission Deadline

Monday, April 27, 2026

Poster Notification

Friday, May 1, 2026

Early Registration Deadline

Monday, May 11, 2026

Workshop