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2023
[Oct '23] πRahma Nouaji was selected as a finalist in the INESC-TEC International Visiting Researcher Programme. Congratulations!
[Oct '23] π’. Shubham Vashisth will give a talk in the Montreal Time Series Meetup, hosted by BorealisAI and Moov AI.
[Sept '23]π. Stella Bitchebe was selected as an EECS Rising Star. Congratulations!!
[Julu '23]π’. Oana will give a seminar on key-value stores in the VLDB Summer School '23.
[May '23] π.Β Sebastian Rolon and Loic Ho-Von have officially graduated from the Master's Thesis program. Congratulations!!
[May '23] π’.Β Oana will give an in-person talk in the University of Waterloo Data Systems Seminar Series.
[Apr. '23] π Many thanks to MLCommons for recognizing my leadership in the MLPerf Storage Working Group with an MLCommons Hero Award!
[Apr. '23] π Congratulations to Sebastian Rolon for having his paper on storage virtualization accepted in CHEOPS'23@EuroSys! Oana will also be giving an invited talk on benchmarking storage in ML workloads in the same workshop. Paper pdf here.
[Mar '23] DISCS is attending the DND IDEaS retreat, in Niagara Falls!
[Feb '23] π’. Β Oana will give a talk in the HPCA'23 Tutorial on benchmarking deep learning systems (hosted by Tom St John, Carole-Jean Wu, and Vijay Janapa Reddi).
[Feb '23] π’. Β Oana will give a talk in the Workshop on Resource-Aware Data Science at the IT University of Copenhagen.
[Jan '23] π°. Oana will serve in the FAST'24 PC and the SIGMOD'24 PC.
[Jan '23] π Oana was appointed as status-only faculty in the University of Toronto School of Computer Science.
2022
[Nov. '22] π’. Oana and Loic Ho-Von give a talk on storage benchmarking in ML at SC '22. Link here.
[Nov. '22] π’. Oana was one of the invited panelists as a notable EPFL alumna for the school's 20th anniversary. Link here.
[Sept. '22] π Our vision paper for storage benchmarking in ML is published in SIGMOD Record. Link here.
[Jul '22] π. Β [Jul '22] DISCS together with Profs. Eyal de Lara & David Lie (UofT), Julien Gascon-Samson (ETS Montreal), and Aastha Mehta (UBC) were awarded $1.5M funding by theΒ Department of National Defence, as a part of the Innovation for Defence Excellence and Security (IDEaS) program funding research networks [link]. Over the next 3 years, we will work on developing a platform for secure and dependable hierarchical edge processing on 5G Many thanks to the DND!
[Apr '22] π’.Β Oana will give a talk in the MLCommons Community Meeting [link].
[Apr '22] π.Β Our paper on seamless reconfiguration for edge stream processing was accepted in SEC '22! Congratulations to the team!
[Mar '22] π.Β Congratulations to Yong Zhang and Xinran Xiong for having their paper on learned indexes accepted in CHEOPS'22! Have a look here for the talk. Link to the paper coming soon.
[Mar '22] π°. Oana will serve in the EuroSys'23 PC the ASPLOS'23 ERC, and MLSys '23 PC.
[Feb '22] π’.Β Happy to host Brian Hirano from Micron for a DISCS group talk on Persistent Memory performance.
[Jan '22]Β π°.Β Oana will co-chair the EuroSys '22 Doctoral Workshop, together with Profs. Valerio Schiavoni and Pierre Sutra.
2021
[Nov '21] π’.Β Oana will teach COMP-310/ECSE-427 Operating Systems in Winter '22.
[Nov '21] π’.Β Oana will give a seminar at the University of Rochester on November 19.
[Oct '21]Β π.Β Oana's PhD thesis was awarded an Honorable Mention for the Dennis M. Ritchie Doctoral Dissertation Award! Many thanks to the ACM SIGOPS awards committee and to her advisor, Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel.
[Oct '21] π°. Β Oana will serve in the OSDI '22, and SIGMOD '22 PCs.
[Sep '21] π.Β Congratulations to Yunjia Zheng and Abha Jha for having their work on data cracking for LSM selected for a poster in the McGill Undergraduate Research Symposium!
[Jun '21] π. Β DISCS was awarded a John R. Evans Leaders Fund (JELF) Grant by the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Thank you, CFI!
[Jun '21] π. Β DISCS was awarded a Discovery Grant by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. Thank you, NSERC!
[Apr '21] Oana will give a seminar in the University of Melbourne CIS Series.
[Apr '21] Congratulations to Yunjia Zheng for winning the McGill School of Computer Science Feng Qian Award for Undergraduate Research!
[Mar '21] Congratulations to Brian Hu for winning the NSERC Undergraduate Research Award!
[Feb '21] Oana will give a keynote speech at the Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW 21).
2020
[Dec '20] Oana will co-teach COMP-310/ECSE-427 Operating Systems together with Prof. Joseph Vybihal in the winter semester of 2021.
[Oct '20] Oana's PhD thesis was awarded the CORE John Makepeace Bennett Award 2021! Many thanks to the CORE committee for selecting my thesis as the winner, my advisor Prof. Willy Zwaenepoel, and Prof. Irena Koprinska from the University of Sydney for supporting my application and encouraging me to apply, and to Dr. Ricardo Bianchini, Prof. Vijay Chidambaram, and Prof. Frans Kaashoek for reviewing my thesis.
[Aug '20] Our paper Snapshot Isolation Without Snapshots was accepted at OSDI '20! Congratulations to the team!
[Aug '20] Oana will serve in the SOSP '21, EuroSys '21 and SIGMOD '21 PCs, and the OSDI '21 ERC.
[Aug '20] Oana will give a talk at the Roundtable on future of data management systems, at the University of Waterloo.