August 1, 2018 - August 2, 2018

Research Faculty Summit 2018

Location: Redmond, WA

Tuesday, July 31

Time (PDT)	Session
4:00 PM–7:00 PM	Welcome Reception and Registration Desk Open

Wednesday, August 1

Time (PDT)	Session	Speaker	Location
7:30 AM–8:30 AM	Breakfast		McKinley
8:30 AM–9:00 AM	Welcome and Introduction [Video]	Sandy Blyth, Global Managing Director, Microsoft Research Donald Kossmann, Director of Redmond Lab, Microsoft Research	Kodiak
9:00 AM–10:00 AM	Inside Microsoft Azure Datacenter Architecture	Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Azure	Kodiak
10:15 AM–11:45 AM	Database and Data Analytic Systems [Video]	Chair: Surajit Chaudhuri, Microsoft Speakers: Tim Kraska, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Andy Pavlo, Carnegie Mellon University \| slides Matei Zaharia, Stanford University \| slides	Cascade
	Hardware-accelerated Networked Systems [Video]	Co-Chairs: Yibo Zhu and Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Speakers: Tom Anderson, University of Washington \| slides Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Daniel Blumenthal, University of California, Santa Barbara Sambhrama Mundkur, Microsoft \| slides	Rainier
	Verification and Secure Systems [Video]	Chair: Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Speakers: Adam Chlipala, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Ed Nightingale, Microsoft \| slides Nikhil Swamy, Microsoft	St. Helens
11:45 AM–1:00 PM	Networking Lunch: One Table/One Topic		McKinley
1:00 PM–2:30 PM	Free Inference and Instant Training: Breakthroughs and Implications [Video]	Co-Chairs: Matthai Philipose and Amar Phanishayee, Microsoft Speakers: Geoff Gordon, Microsoft \| slides Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley \| slides Christopher Re, Stanford University Vivienne Sze, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides	Cascade
	Future of Cloud Storage Systems	Chair: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Speakers: Luis Ceze, University of Washington \| slides Aaron Ogus, Microsoft Ant Rowstron, Microsoft Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego \| slides	Rainier
	AI for AI Systems [Video]	Co-Chairs: Dan Bohus, Debadeepta Dey, and Siddhartha Sen, Microsoft Speakers: Behnaz Arzani, Microsoft \| slides Eric Horvitz, Microsoft Virginia Smith, Carnegie Mellon University \| slides	St. Helens
2:30 PM–3:00 PM	Networking Break
3:00 PM–4:15 PM	The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of ML for Networked Systems [Video]	Co-Chairs: Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Junchen Jiang, Venkat Padmanabhan, and Siddhartha Sen, Microsoft Speakers: Bruce Maggs, Duke University \| slides Dave Maltz, Microsoft \| slides Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford University Keith Winstein, Stanford University \| slides	Cascade
	Programmable Hardware for Distributed Systems	Chair: Dan Ports, Microsoft Speakers: Simon Peter, University of Texas at Austin \| slides Dan Ports, Microsoft	Rainier
	Continuous Deployment: Current and Future Challenges [Video]	Chair: Brendan Murphy, Microsoft Speakers: Chap Alex, Microsoft \| slides Jen Beckmann, Microsoft \| slides Laurie Williams, North Carolina State University \| slides	St. Helens
4:30 PM–5:05 PM	Entrepreneurship and Systems Research [Video]	Moderator: Ranveer Chandra, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research Panelists: Dawn Song, Professor, University of California, Berkeley Matei Zaharia, Assistant Professor, Stanford University and Co-founder, Databricks	Kodiak
5:05 PM–5:45 PM	The Art of Building a Reliable Cloud Network [Video]	Albert Greenberg, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Azure Networking	Kodiak
6:00 PM–6:30 PM	Transportation to Dinner
6:30 PM–9:00 PM	Dinner at Hyatt Regency Lake Washington

Thursday, August 2

Time (PDT)	Session	Speaker	Location
7:30 AM–8:30 AM	Breakfast		McKinley
8:30 AM–9:00 AM	Technology Showcase – Lightning Round	Sandy Blyth, Global Managing Director, Microsoft Research	Kodiak
9:00 AM–9:45 AM	Knowledge Systems and AI [Video]	David Ku, Corporate Vice President, AI Core and CTO of Microsoft AI & Research	Kodiak
10:00 AM–11:30 AM	Intelligent Edge [Video]	Chair: Victor Bahl, Microsoft Speakers: Mung Chiang, Purdue University \| slides Umakishore Ramachandran, Georgia Institute of Technology \| slides Arjmand Samuel, Microsoft \| slides Lin Zhong, Rice University \| slides	St. Helens
10:00 AM–11:40 AM	Confidential Computing [Video]	Chair: Manuel Costa, Microsoft Speakers: Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology \| slides Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College \| slides Mark Russinovich, Microsoft \| slides Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley \| slides	Rainier
10:00 AM–12:00 PM	CPU & DRAM Bugs: Attacks & Defenses [Video]	Co-Chairs: Stefan Saroiu and Alec Wolman, Microsoft Speakers: Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University \| slides Christopher Ertl, Microsoft \| slides Onur Mutlu, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich \| slides	Cascade
11:30 AM–2:00 PM	Technology Showcase	Chair: Sean Kuno, Research Program Manager, Microsoft Research	Hood/Baker
12:00 PM–1:00 PM	Networking Lunch: One Table/One Topic		McKinley
1:00 PM–1:30 PM	Micro Co-design for Efficient Cloud Infrastructure	Muthian Sivathanu, Microsoft	Lassen
1:30 PM–2:00 PM	From Paper to Production: Privacy Compliance Systems at Scale	Saikat Guha, Microsoft	Lassen
2:00 PM–3:15 PM	Quantum Computers: Software and Hardware Architecture	Chair: Matthias Troyer, Microsoft Speakers: Douglas Carmean, Microsoft Torsten Hoefler, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich \| slides Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University \| slides	Cascade
	AI Infrastructure and Tools [Video]	Speakers: Fan Yang, Microsoft \| slides Jilong Xue, Microsoft \| slides	Rainier
	Current Trends in Blockchain Technology [Video]	Chair: Arvind Arasu, Microsoft Speakers: Carsten Binnig, Technische Universität Darmstadt \| slides Srinath Setty, Microsoft \| slides Dawn Song, University of California, Berkeley \| slides	St. Helens
3:15 PM–3:45 PM	Networking Break
3:45 PM–4:30 PM	Computing Innovation and Diversity of Thought [Video]	Chair: Vani Mandava, Director, Data Science, Microsoft Research Moderator: Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-founder of the National Center for Women & Information Technology Panelists: Abolade Gbadegesin, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Jim Kurose, Assistant Director, National Science Foundation Margaret Martonosi, Professor of Computer Science, Director, Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education, Princeton University Mentioned: Dear Colleague Letter: Pursuing Meaningful Actions in Support of Broadening Participation in Computing (BPC)	Kodiak
4:30 PM–5:15 PM	Systems Research \| Fueling Future Disruptions [Video]	Donald Kossmann, Director of Redmond Lab, Microsoft Research	Kodiak

Friday, August 3

Time (PDT)	Co-located Workshop		Location
8:00 AM–2:00 PM	Continuous Deployment Workshop		Microsoft Building 99