2026 New England Systems Day

A one-day workshop connecting systems researchers and students across New England

ยท Allston, MA

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Call for Lightning Talks

We invite short lightning talks from students and researchers across New England on any topic in computer systems. Talks are 5-20 minutes and may present early ideas, ongoing projects, or recently published work.

Submit a title and abstract. Slides are optional.

Topics of Interest

Operating systems, Distributed systems, File and storage systems, System security, Machine learning systems, Big data systems, Embedded systems, Networking, Computer architecture, Programming languages, and Other topics in computer systems.

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Important Dates

  • Call for Talks: Dec 20, 2025 11:59pm EST
  • Notification Date: Jan 8, 2026
  • Workshop: January 23, 2026

Organizing Committee

Program Co-chairs

  • Juncheng Yang (Harvard University)
  • Nikos Vasilakis (Brown University)

Program Committee

  • Cheng Tan (Northeastern University)
  • Ji-Yong Shin (Northeastern University)
  • Xiang Ren (Northeastern University)
  • Yigong Hu (Boston University)
  • John Liagouris (Boston University)
  • Vasia Kalavri (Boston University)
  • Kostas Solomos (Brandeis University)
  • Kyungtae Kim (Dartmouth College)
  • Deepti Raghavan (Brown University)
  • Akshay Narayan (Brown University)
  • Tianyu Li (MIT & Univ. Wisconsin Madison)
  • Jinghan Sun (Meta)
  • Anirudh Sabnis (Akamai)
  • Anna Blasiak (Akamai)
  • Ayush Bhardwaj (Akamai)
  • Huamin Chen (Red Hat)

Venue

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Allston, MA

Directions and room details will be posted closer to the event. For planning, the venue is accessible by public transit and has nearby parking options.

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Code of Conduct

We have adopted the USENIX Event Code of Conduct for the New England Systems Day.

Sponsors

We are grateful to our sponsors for their support.

  • Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
  • ACM SIGOPS

Interested in sponsoring? Email juncheng@seas.harvard.edu.

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