Events
Dissertation Talk with Melih Elibol: NumS: Scalable Array Programming for the Cloud; 10 AM, Tuesday, May 10
Title:Â NumS: Scalable Array Programming for the Cloud Speaker:Â Melih Elibol Advisors:Â Michael I. Jordan and...
Dissertation Talk with Weikeng Chen: Building Cryptographic Systems from Distributed Trust; 11:00 AM, Friday, April 29
Title:Â Building Cryptographic Systems from Distributed Trust Speaker:Â Weikeng Chen Advisor:Â Raluca Ada Popa...
Dissertation Talk with Alvin Wan: Efficient 2.5D Deep Learning for Capturing and Viewing Reality; 12:00 PM, Thursday, April 28
Title:Â Efficient 2.5D Deep Learning for Capturing and Viewing Reality Speaker:Â Alvin Wan Advisor:Â Joseph E....
Dissertation Talk with Brijen Thananjeyan: Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Learned Safe Sets; 5:00 PM, Tuesday, April 26
Title:Â Safe Reinforcement Learning Using Learned Safe Sets Speaker:Â Brijen Thananjeyan Advisors:Â Ken Goldbe...
Security Seminar: Caroline Trippel on “Scalable Assurance via Formal and Verifiable Security Contracts” Fri Apr 22 @ 11AM
Title: Scalable Assurance via Formal and Verifiable Security Contracts Speaker: Caroline Trippel Zoom link:Â...
Dissertation Talk with Guanhua Wang: Disruptive Research on Distributed Machine Learning Systems; 11:00 AM, Friday, April 15
Title: Disruptive Research on Distributed Machine Learning Systems Speaker: Guanhua Wang Advisor: Ion Stoica D...
Sky Seminar: “The Tip of the Iceberg: How to make ML for Systems work” with Deniz Altınbüken
Join us for our New Sky Seminar Speaker Series! Our first speaker for this series will be Deniz Altınbüken...
Security Seminar: Alex Ozdemir on “CirC: Unifying Compilers for SNARKs, SMT, and More”, Friday Feb. 11th at 11 AM PT
Title:Â CirC: Unifying Compilers for SNARKs, SMT, and More Speaker:Â Alex Ozdemir (Stanford) Time:Â Fri Feb 11...
Dissertation Talk by Johann Schleier-Smith: Understanding and Exploring Serverless Cloud Computing; 10:30 AM, Thursday, December 16
Title: Understanding and Exploring Serverless Cloud Computing Speaker: Johann Schleier-Smith Advisor: Jos...
Security Seminar: Semantic Techniques for Information-Flow Languages with Andrew Hirsch, Friday Nov. 5th, 12 PM PDT
Title: Semantic Techniques for Information-Flow Languages Speaker: Andrew Hirsch Time: Friday Nov 5 at 12PM Zo...
RISELab Faculty Talk 10/14/21: The Tale of a Success with Ali Ghodsi
Title:Â The Tale of a Success with Ali Ghodsi Speaker:Â Ali Ghodsi (CEO and Co-Founder of DataBricks and EECS ...
Dissertation Talk by Devin Petersohn: Dataframe Systems: Theory, Architecture, and Implementation; 3 PM, Monday, August 9
Title:Â Dataframe Systems: Theory, Architecture, and Implementation Speaker:Â Devin Petersohn Advisor: Anthony...
Dissertation Talk: Compartmentalizing Consensus (Michael Whittaker); Thursday, July 29, 2021 12:30 PDT
Title: Compartmentalizing Consensus Speaker: Michael Whittaker Advisor: Joe Hellerstein Date: Thursday, July 2...
Security Seminar: Compositional Security for Reentrant Applications with Ethan Cecchetti
Next Friday (June 11) at 11AM, we’ll have a security seminar talk with Ethan Cecchetti, who will be pre...
Dissertation Talk: Scalable Reinforcement Learning Systems and their Applications (Eric Liang), Wednesday, May 5, 12 PM EST
Title:Â Scalable Reinforcement Learning Systems and their Applications Speaker: Eric Liang Advisor: Ion Stoica...
Dissertation Talk: Gabe Fierro: Self-Adapting Software for Cyberphysical Systems; Friday, April 30, 3 PM PST
Title: Self-Adapting Software for Cyberphysical Systems Speaker: Gabe Fierro Advisor: David Culler Date: Frida...
RISE Seminar 4/30/21: Towards Instance-Optimized Data Systems, a talk by Tim Kraska, MIT
Title:Â Towards Instance-Optimized Data Systems Time and Date: Friday April 30th, 2021, 12-1 PM Pacific Zoom L...
Dissertation Talk: Expanding the Reach of Fuzz Testing by Caroline Lemieux; Tuesday, April 27, 12 PM PST
Title:Â Expanding the Reach of Fuzz Testing Speaker:Â Caroline Lemieux Advisor:Â Koushik Sen Date:Â Tuesday, A...
Dissertation Talk: Usable and Efficient Systems for Machine Learning by Doris Xin; Thursday, April 22nd, 10 AM
Title: Usable and Efficient Systems for Machine Learning Speaker: Doris Xin Advisor: Aditya Parameswaran  ...
Dissertation Talk: Interaction History for Building Human Data Interfaces by Yifan Wu; Thursday, April 22, 2 PM PST
Title:Â Interaction History for Building Human Data Interfaces Speaker:Â Yifan Wu Advisor:Â Joe Hellerstein Da...
RISE Seminar 3/12/21: Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics, a talk by Suyash Gupta, UC Davis
Title: Resilient and Scalable Architecture for Permissioned Blockchain Fabrics Time:Â 12-1 PM Pacific Time, Fr...
RISE Seminar 3/5/21: Building Storage Systems for New Applications and New Hardware, talk by Vijay Chidambaram, UT Austin
Title:Â Building Storage Systems for New Applications and New Hardware Time:Â 12-1 PM Pacific Time, Friday Mar...
RISE Seminar 2/26/21: Vignettes from Applied Research @ Splunk, a talk by Ram Sriharsha
Title:Â Vignettes from Applied Research @ Splunk Time:Â 12-1 PM Pacific Time, Friday February 26th, 2021 YouTu...
RISELab Poster Session / BEARS Symposium – Thursday February 11, 2021
We are pleased to announce that RISELab will hold a virtual poster session as part of the BEARS 2021 Researc...
RISE Seminar 11/20/20: Converged Analytics and Cloud-Native Architectures, a talk by Raghu Ramakrishnan of Microsoft
Title:Â Converged Analytics and Cloud-Native Architectures Time:Â 12-1 PM Pacific Time, Friday November 20th, ...
RISE Seminar 11/6/20: The µ Operating System: Linux for µs-latency and Tbps-bandwidth (Prof. Rachit Agarwal, Cornell)
Title: The µ Operating System: Linux for µs-latency and Tbps-bandwidth Time: 12-1 PM PST, Friday November ...
RISE Seminar 10/16/20: Streamlet: Textbook Streamlined Blockchains, a talk by Prof. Elaine Shi of Cornell
Time and Date:Â 12-1 PM PDT, Friday October 16th, 2020 Talk recording:Â https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU0veN...
RISE Seminar 10/9/20: End-to-End Acceleration of Machine Learning Pipelines, a talk by Andy Feng of Nvidia
Title: End-to-End Acceleration of Machine Learning Pipelines  Time and Date: October 9th 2020, 12-1 PM Pacif...
RISE Seminar 10/2/20: Compiler 2.0: Using Machine Learning to Modernize Compiler Technology, a talk by Saman Amarasinghe of MIT
Title:Â Compiler 2.0: Using Machine Learning to Modernize Compiler Technology Time and Date: 12-1 PM Pacific, ...
RISE Seminar 9/25/20: Relational Knowledge Graphs as the Foundation for Artificial Intelligence, a talk by Molham Aref of RelationalAI
Time:Â Friday, September 25th 2020, 12-1 PM Talk recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpyGbjUzG7Y&fe...
RISE Seminar 9/18/20: Algorithmic foundations of neural architecture search, a talk by Ameet Talwalkar of CMU and Determined AI
Talk title: Algorithmic foundations of neural architecture search Date & Time:Â Friday 9/18, 12-1 PM Pacif...
RISE Seminar 5/14/20: Learning to Solve Combinatorial Optimization Problems with Applications to Systems and Chip Design, a talk by Azalia Mirhoseini
This week, we are very excited to host Azalia Mirhoseini from Google Brain. Azalia will tell us about reinfor...
RISE Seminar 4/17/20: Lessons from Large-Scale Cloud Software at Databricks a talk by Matei Zaharia
This week, we are very excited to host Matei Zaharia from Stanford. Speaker: Matei Zaharia (Stanford Universit...
RISE Seminar 2/21/20: Towards an Equitable and Trustworthy Data Economy, a talk by Ruoxi Jia, UC Berkeley
Title:Â Towards an Equitable and Trustworthy Data Economy Speaker: Ruoxi Jia Date and location: Friday, Februa...
RISELab Open House and Poster Session
This year’s BEARS Symposium will be held on Thursday 2/13/20 at the International House in Berkeley from...
RISE Seminar 1/31/20: Optimal Resource Allocation for Parallelizable Jobs, a talk by Ben Berg
Title: Optimal Resource Allocation for Parallelizable Jobs Abstract:Â Modern distributed computation framewor...
RISE Seminar 12/6/19: The Pit and the Pendulum, a talk by Lorenzo Alvisi
Title:Â The Pit and the Pendulum Speaker:Â Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell) Date and location:Â Friday, December 6, 11...
RISE Seminar 11/22/19: Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes, a talk by Arvind Krishnamurthy
Title:Â Networked Systems in the Era of Programmable Dataplanes Speaker: Arvind Krishnamurthy (University of W...
RISE Seminar 11/15/19: Shrinking the Attack Surface for Expressive Trusted Hardware, a talk by James Mickens
Title:Â Shrinking the Attack Surface for Expressive Trusted Hardware Speaker: James Mickens (Harvard) Date and...
RISE Seminar 10/25/19: RADE : Resource-Efficient Supervised Anomaly Detection Using Decision Tree Based Ensemble Methods, a talk by Yaniv Ben-Itzhak (VMware)
Title:Â RADE : Resource-Efficient Supervised Anomaly Detection Using Decision Tree Based Ensemble Methods Spea...
RISE Seminar 10/4/19: “ML will change the world – what’s taking it so long?” – a talk by Rajat Monga
Title: ML will change the world – what’s taking it so long? Speaker: Rajat Monga (Google) Date and loc...
RISE Seminar 9/27/19: If you want to be rich, get a lot of money: Theory and Systems for Weak Supervision, a talk by Christopher Ré
Title:Â If you want to be rich, get a lot of money: Theory and Systems for Weak Supervision. Speaker:Â Christo...
RISE Seminar 9/20/19: MI6: Secure Enclaves in a Speculative Out-of-Order Processor, a talk by Srini Devadas
Title: MI6: Secure Enclaves in a Speculative Out-of-Order Processor  Speaker: Srini Devadas (MIT) Date an...
RISE Seminar 9/13/19: Scalable, Efficient, and Productive: Holistic Hardware Optimizations for Machine Learning Acceleration, a talk by Sophia Shao
Title:Â Scalable, Efficient, and Productive: Holistic Hardware Optimizations for Machine Learning Acceleration...
Roxana Geambasu talk: Security and Privacy Guarantees in Machine Learning with Differential Privacy
Join us on August 13th from 12:00-1:00 PM in 405 Soda Hall for a talk by Associate Professor of Computer Scien...
SURF Poster Session
Come by RISELab on Friday 8/9/19 to see what our SURFers (Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows) have been up ...
RISE Seminar: Search-based Approaches to Optimize Deep Learning Computation, a talk by Zhihao Jia
Title: Search-based Approaches to Optimize Deep Learning Computation  Speaker: Zhihao Jia  Affiliation:Â...
RISE Seminar: Meeting stringent Internet performance requirements despite uncertainty, a talk by Sanjay Rao
Title:Â Meeting stringent Internet performance requirements despite uncertainty Speaker:Â Sanjay Rao Affiliati...
RISE Seminar 5/3/19: Democratizing Video Analytics – The quest for the holy trinity of low latency, low cost, and high accuracy, by Ganesh Ananthanarayanan
Title: Democratizing Video Analytics – The quest for the holy trinity of low latency, low cost, and high ac...
RISE Seminar 4/26/19: Designing Systems for Push-Button Verification, a talk by Xi Wang
Title:Â Designing Systems for Push-Button Verification Speaker:Â Xi Wang Affiliation:Â University of Washingto...
RISE Seminar 4/19/19: From Queues to Earliest Departure Time, a talk by David Wetherall
Title:Â From Queues to Earliest Departure Time Speaker:Â David Wetherall Affiliation:Â Google Data and locatio...
RISE Seminar 4/12/19: Efficient Data Processing on Modern Hardware, a talk by Sebastian Breß
Title: Efficient Data Processing on Modern Hardware  Speaker: Sebastian Breß  Affiliation: TU Berlin Â...
RISE Seminar 4/5/19: AI Ethics for Systems (and other technical) Researchers, a talk by Sarah Bird
Title: AI Ethics for Systems (and other technical) Researchers Speaker:Â Sarah Bird Affiliation:Â Microsoft Da...
RISE Seminar 3/28/19: Towards Learned Algorithms, Data Structures, and Systems by Tim Kraska
Title: Towards Learned Algorithms, Data Structures, and Systems Speaker: Tim Kraska Affiliation: MIT Abstract:...
RISE Seminar 3/15/19: The Cloud Model – Enabling Provable Security at Scale by Neha Rungta
Title: The Cloud Model – Enabling Provable Security at Scale Speaker: Neha Rungta Affiliation: Amazon Dat...
RISE Seminar: Three Modeling Vignettes from Search Ads Quality at Google by Sugato Basu
Title:Â Three Modeling Vignettes from Search Ads Quality at Google Speaker:Â Sugato Basu Affiliation:Â Google ...
RISE Seminar: Get Your Data Together! Algorithms for Managing Data Lakes by Erkang Zhu
Title:Â Get Your Data Together! Algorithms for Managing Data Lakes Speaker:Â Erkang (Eric) Zhu Affiliation:Â U...
RISE Seminar: 2/15/19 Building the warehouse scale computer, a talk by John Wilkes
Title:Â Building the warehouse scale computer Speaker:Â John Wilkes Affiliation:Â Google Date and location:Â F...
BEARS Symposium and RISELab Poster Session
Join us for the RISELab Open House Poster Session after the BEARS Symposium on February 14, 2019 at UC Berkele...
RISE Seminar 2/8/19: Data-Driven Datasets: Deep Active Learning for Autonomous Vehicles and Beyond, a talk by Adam Lesnikowski
Note: this talk has been recorded; you can watch the video on RISELab YouTube channel Title:Â Data-Driven Data...
RISE Seminar: 2/1/19 Machine learning for medical decision support, a talk by Pengtao Xie
Title:Â Machine learning for medical decision support Speaker:Â Pengtao Xie Affiliation:Â Peetum Date and loca...
RISE Seminar: 11/30/18 Data in the Cloud, a talk by Raghu Ramakrishnan
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Data in the Cloud Speaker:Â Â Â Â Â Â Raghu Ramakrishnan Affiliation:Â ...
CANCELLED: RISE Seminar: 11/16/18 Diversity-promoting and large-scale machine learning for healthcare, a talk by Pengtao Xie
Due to poor air quality in Berkeley, this event has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule it in the near f...
RISE Seminar: 11/16/18 Diversity-promoting and large-scale machine learning for healthcare, a talk by Pengtao Xie
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Diversity-promoting and large-scale machine learning for healthcare Speaker:Â...
RISE Seminar: 11/2/18 Managing Compute at Google Scale, a talk by Steve Hand
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Managing Compute at Google Scale Speaker:Â Â Â Â Â Â Steven Hand Affilia...
RISE Seminar 10/26/18: Abstractions for the Stateful Control Plane, a talk by Mahesh Balakrishnan
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Abstractions for the Stateful Control Plane Speaker:Â Â Â Â Â Â Mahesh Ba...
RISE Seminar 10/19/18: Modeling (Human) Bias in Artificial Intelligence, a talk by Margaret Mitchell
Title:          Modeling (Human) Bias in Artificial Intelligence Speaker:      M...
RISE Camp 2018 is happening!
You can watch it live here. For more information, please go to the event website....
RISE Talk 10/8/18: Fast, Efficient, and Complexity-overcoming; the needs for the next generation of the data analytic platform, a talk by Edmon Begoli, ORNL
Title: Fast, Efficient, and Complexity-overcoming — the needs for the next generation of the data analyt...
RISE Seminar 10/5/18: Building a broad knowledge graph for products, a talk by Xin Luna Dong
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Building a broad knowledge graph for products Speaker:Â Â Â Â Â Â Xin Lu...
RISE Seminar 9/21/18: Remote Memory for Non-Masochists, a talk by Marcos Aguilera
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Remote Memory for Non-Masochists Speaker:Â Â Â Â Â Â Marcos Aguilera Aff...
RISE Seminar 9/14/18 : Actor-Oriented Database Systems, a talk by Phil Bernstein
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Actor-Oriented Database Systems Speaker:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Philip A. Ber...
General registration is now open for RISE Camp 2018!
We are offering a very limited number of tickets to general public at $500 price. Past events have sold out qu...
RISE Seminar 9/7/18: Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Membership Changes, a talk by Sailesh Krishnamurthy
Title:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Amazon Aurora: On Avoiding Distributed Consensus for I/Os, Commits, and Memb...
RISE Seminar 8/31/18: Dr. Dahlia Malkhi, VMWare Research: BFT in the lens of Blockchains and Blockchains in the lens of BFT
Title: Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â BFT in the lens of Blockchains and Blockchains in the lens of BFT Sp...
RISELab Talk 8/29/18: Timothy Roscoe, ETH: Enzian: making systems software research relevant in the face of custom hardware
Date/time: Wednesday, Aug. 29; 1:30 pm Location: Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall Title: Enzian: making systems softw...
e-mission platform two-day workshop
K. SHANKARI – UC BERKELEY Â WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW HUMANSÂ TRAVEL AND WHY? WANT TO SEE IF YOU CAN INFLU...
RISE Seminar 5/10/18: David Ku (Microsoft): What is Microsoft up to in AI?
Title: What is Microsoft up to in AI? Date and time: 5/10/18, 12 pm Location: Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall Abstra...
Dissertation Talk: Machine Learning for Resource Management in the Datacenter and the Cloud
Title:Â Machine Learning for Resource Management in the Datacenter and the Cloud Speaker:Â Neeraja J. Yadwadka...
RISE Seminar 5/3/18: Mehul Shah (Amazon Web Services): AWS Glue: Serverless Data Integration and Beyond
Title: AWS Glue: Serverless Data Integration and Beyond Date: Thursday, May 3rd, 12-1pm, Wozniak Lounge (430 S...
RISE Seminar 4/26/18: Kathy Yelick (UC Berkeley): Machine learning for Science
Speaker: Professor Kathy Yelick Title:Â Machine learning for Science Affiliation: UC Berkeley Date: Thursday, ...
RISE Seminar 4/12/18: C. Mohan (IBM Fellow and Distinguished Visiting Prof (Tsinghua Univ)): Landscape of Practical Blockchain Systems and their Applications
Title: Landscape of Practical Blockchain Systems and their Applications Date: Thursday, April 12th, 12-1pm, Lo...
RISE Seminar 4/5/18: Matt Johnson, Roy Frostig, and Chris Leary (Google Brain): Compiling machine learning programs via high-level tracing
Title: Compiling machine learning programs via high-level tracing Date: Thursday, April 5th, 12-1pm, Wozniak L...
RISE Seminar 3/22/18: Noah Goodman (Stanford): Probabilistic Programming and models of Cognition
Title:Â Probabilistic Programming and models of Cognition Date: Thursday, March 22nd, 12-1pm, Wozniak Lounge (...
RISE Seminar 3/15/18: Alexandra Meliou (UMass Amherst): Diagnoses and Explanations: Creating a Higher-Quality Data World
Title: Diagnoses and Explanations: Creating a Higher-Quality Data World Abstract: The correctness and proper f...
RISE Seminar 3/8/18: Peter Gao: Practical Computer Vision For Self Driving Cars
Title: Practical Computer Vision For Self Driving Cars Date: Thursday, March 8th, 12-1pm Wozniak Lounge (430 S...
RISE Seminar 2/15/18 : Mihai Budiu (VMware) – Hillview: a spreadsheet for big data
Title: Hillview: a spreadsheet for big data By: Mihai Budiu Affiliation: VMware Where/When: Thursday Feb 15 no...
BEARS Symposium followed by RISELab Open House and poster session on Thursday, February 8, 2018
Registration is now open for the Berkeley EECS Annual Research Symposium (BEARS). The symposium will be h...
RISE Seminar 2/1/18 : Yangqing Jia – Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective
Title: Applied Machine Learning at Facebook: A Datacenter Infrastructure Perspective By: Yangqing Jia Affiliat...
RISE Seminar 1/25/18: Tiny functions for codecs, compilation, and (maybe) soon everything, talk by Keith Winstein
Title: Tiny functions for codecs, compilation, and (maybe) soon everything By: Keith Winstein Affiliation: Pro...
RISE Seminar 1/18/18: Nearest Neighbor Search: Theory and Practice, by Ludwig Schmidt
Title: Nearest Neighbor Search: Theory and Practice By: Ludwig Schmidt Affiliation: Postdoc, UC Berkeley EECS ...
RISE Seminar: Jason Gauci: Reinforcement Learning in Production
This week’s RISE Seminar will be Jason Gauci from Facebook. Lunch will be served. Where: Wozniak Lounge...
RISE Seminar: Hammad Mazhar: Training an army of golfing robots through simulation
For this week’s RISE Seminar, we will have Hammad Mazhar from NVIDIA speaking. Lunch is served. Abstract...
RISE Seminar: Anant Bhardwaj: Instabase: Design Challenges in Building End User Data Systems
For this week’s RISE Seminar, we will have Anant Bhardwaj who is the founder & CEO of Instabase. Ab...
RISE Seminar: Matthias Boehm: Declarative Machine Learning for Low-Latency to Large-Scale Deployments
Matthias Boehm from IBM Research – Almaden will be giving a talk on SystemML at Thursday October 5, 12:3...
RISE Seminar: Strategies for integrating people and machine learning in online systems
When/Where: Thursday 9/21 12:30-1:30 Â Wozniak Lounge, Soda Hall, UC Berkeley Abstract: Clara Labs is an email...
RISE Seminar: Jon Tamir (UC Berkeley): Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART)
Title:Â Computational Magnetic Resonance Imaging and the Berkeley Advanced Reconstruction Toolbox (BART) Where...