SOSP Student Research Competition 2017 Winners

SOSP 2017 hosted its first ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research. The competition offers undergraduate and graduate students a unique forum to experience the research world, present their research results to conference attendees, and compete for prizes. Out of 42 submissions, 16 were selected for on-site poster presentation at SOSP 2017.

SRC at SOSP 2017 was chaired by Ding Yuan. The selection committee consisted of Haibo Chen, Vijay Chidambaram, Roxana Geambasu, Haryadi Gunawi, Ryan P. Huang, Yu Hua, Guoliang Jin, Jinyang Li, Robbert van Renesse, Michael Stumm, Hailong Sun, Kaushik Veeraraghavan, Geoff Voelker, Xi Wang, Tianyin Xu, Ding Yuan, Irene Zhang, Jiaqi Zhang, and Yiying Zhang.

The SRC at SOSP 2017 winners are

First Place

Graduate Category

Jon Gjengset
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for the submission
Xylem: flexible and high-performance structured storage via dynamic data-flow

Undergrad Category

Brandon Zhang
University of British Columbia
for the submission
PGo: Corresponding a high-level formal specification with its implementation

Second Place

Graduate Category

Tej Chajed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for the submission
Extending a verified file system with concurrency

Undergrad Category

Gefei Zuo
University of Science and Technology of China
for the submission
Near-Optimal Total Order Message Scattering in Data Center Networks

Third Place

Graduate Category

Anish Athalye
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
for the submission
CoqIOA: A Formalization of IO Automata in the Coq Proof Assistant

Undergrad Category

Levente Kurus
Imperial College London
for the submission
Re-Pintos: Revitalizing an instructional operating system

Also in the final presentation round

Yuanwei Lu
University of Science and Technology of China
with the submission
Towards High Performance Disaggregated Flash Storage with Programmable NIC

Anand Padmanabha Iyer
UC Berkeley
with the submission
Time-Evolving Graph Processing on Commodity Clusters

Also selected for the on-site poster-presentation round

Yaocheng Xiang
Peking University
with the submission
CAPS: Cache Allocation with Partial Sharing

Luo Mai
Imperial College London
with the submission
A Control-based Approach Towards Adaptive Stream Processing

Gaoyang Guan
College of Computer Science, Zhejiang University, China
with the submission
QoE-aware Edge Computing for Complex IoT Event Processing

Bojie Li
University of Science and Technology of China
with the submission
Fast and Compatible User-Space Container Networking with Programmable NIC

Youxu Chen
University of Science and Technology of China
with the submission
Scaling Distributed File Systems via Correlation-based Metadata Prefetching

Wencong Xiao
Ohio State University
with the submission
All You Need to Know about Scheduling Deep Learning Jobs

Joao Carreira
UC Berkeley
with the submission
Disaggregation in the Cloud with μInstances and Cirrus

Fang Zhou
Ohio State University
with the submission
wPerf: Identifying Critical Waiting in Multi-threaded Applications