UMass Systems Lunch for Students

Thursday or Wednesday at noon • UMass CICS • Limited lunch provided

The Systems Lunch for Students series aims to create a dedicated forum for PhD students in systems to: (1) share their research and receive constructive feedback in a supportive environment, (2) practice and refine their presentation skills ahead of conferences, and (3) build stronger cross-lab connections within CICS by learning about each other’s projects.

Fellow students will share their research on building, debugging, testing, and maintaining:

Operating systems
Distributed systems
Databases
Networking
Cloud computing
Systems for machine learning
Systems for big data processing
Sustainable systems
Virtualization and containerization technologies

Schedule

Date	Title	Speaker	Location
October 2, 2025 12:30 - 1:30	ChatDBG: Augmenting Debugging with Large Language Models C-Suite: A Family of Open-Source Tools for Sustainable Systems	Kyla Levin Diptyaroop Maji	LGRC A112
October 22, 2025 12:00 - 1:00 pm	Learned kernel scheduling for provenance systems Carbon-Aware Scheduling: A Framework for Integrating Intermittent Renewable Energy into Grid Operations	Jinsong Mao Walid A. Hanafy	LGRC A112
November 13, 2025	Terrarium: Revisiting the Blackboard for Multi-Agent Safety, Privacy, and Security Studies GSplit: Scaling Graph Neural Network Training on Large Graphs via Split Parallelism	Abhinav Kumar Juelin Liu	LGRC A112
December 4, 2025	Lock-free Hashmap for High-contention Workloads TBD	Hao Shi Nicolas van Kempen	LGRC A112

Kindred spirits

Brought to you by

Fadhil, Nicolas

Please reach out to us if you want to help organize the series 😄