Schedule

All times are in U.S. Eastern Standard Time (UTC−05:00).

Note: The PDFs will be available on the first day of the workshop.

Day 1 / Monday, November 17, 2025

8:00am

Breakfast (Atrium Room, Room 1107)
8:45am - 9:00am

Welcome from the Chairs
9:00am - 10:00am

Session 1: Beyond Classical

Session Chair: Rachee Singh (Cornell University)
Path-Oblivious Entanglement Swapping for the Quantum Internet
Vincent Mutolo, Rhea Parekh, Dan Rubenstein (Columbia University)
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Faster-than-light coordination for networked systems with quantum non-local games
Venkat Arun, Vijay Chidambaram, Scott Aaronson (UT Austin)
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Modeling Metastability
Ali Farahbakhsh (Cornell University); Andreas Haeberlen (University of Pennsylvania / Roblox); Andy Lu (University of Pennsylvania); Lorenzo Alvisi, Robbert van Renesse, Shir Cohen Gahtan (Cornell University)
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Unveiling and Engaging with the Humans of Networking Research
Nova Ahmed (DIAL, North South University); Laura Gazda (Virginia Tech); Eric Greenlee (Georgia Tech); Shelby Hagemann (Northern Arizona University); Kurtis Heimerl, Esther Jang (University of Washington); Fernanda Rosa (Virginia Tech); Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University); Jason Young (University of Washington)
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A Breath of Fresh Air: Visualizing How Networks “Breathe”
Stephen Jasina (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University); Paul Barford (University of Wisconsin-Madison); Mark Crovella (Boston University); Walter Willinger (NIKSUN Inc.)
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10:00am - 10:30am

Break
10:30am - 11:30am

Session 2: AI All the Way Down

Session Chair: Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech)
The Small World Web of AI
Noa Zilberman, Alexander Jackson (University of Oxford)
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Man-Made Heuristics Are Dead. Long Live Code Generators!
Rohit Dwivedula, Divyanshu Saxena, Aditya Akella, Swarat Chaudhuri, Daehyeok Kim (UT Austin)
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Towards an Agentic Workflow for Internet Measurement Research
Alagappan Ramanathan, Eunju Kang (UC Irvine); Dongsu Han (KAIST); Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi (UC Irvine)
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A Case for Learned Cloud Emulators
Archit Bhatnagar (University of Michigan); Yiming Qiu (University of Hong Kong); Sarah McClure, Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Ang Chen (University of Michigan)
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The Privacy Quagmire: Where Computer Scientists and Lawyers May Disagree
Yunwei Zhao (NYU); Varun Chandrasekaran (UIUC); Thomas Wies, Lakshmi Subramanian (NYU)
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11:30am - 1:00pm

Lunch (Atrium Room, Room 1107)
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Session 3: Infrastructure, Everywhere

Session Chair: Vamsi Addanki (Purdue University)
Data Centers Manufacturing Steel: Rethinking Industrial Networks in the Age of IT
Nikolaos Mitsakis, Marco Reisacher, Matthias Eichholz, Yannic Breiting, Harald Albrecht, Andreas Blenk (Siemens AG); Oliver Hohlfeld (University of Kassel)
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GPUnion: Autonomous GPU Sharing on Campus
Yufang Li (HKUST-GZ); Yuanbo Zhang (Sun Yat-sen University); Hanlong Liao (NUDT); Deke Guo (Sun Yat-sen University); Guoming Tang (HKUST-GZ)
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A Call to Arms: Motivating An Internet Measurements Observatory for Africa
Nicholas Brian Anya, Semebia Wurah (CMU-Africa); Theophilus A. Benson (CMU)
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Anyone, Anywhere, not Everyone, Everywhere: Starlink Doesn't End the Digital Divide
Wesley Woo (Virginia Tech); Juan A. Fraire (Inria-Lyon); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley / ICSI); Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech)
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Sustainability or Survivability? Eliminating the Need to Choose in LEO Satellite Constellations
Chris Misa, Ramakrishnan Durairajan (University of Oregon)
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2:00pm - 2:15pm

Break
2:15pm - 3:15pm

Session 4: Feeding the Beast

Session Chair: Vipul Harsh (Conviva)
Lost in Translation: The Search for Meaning in Network-Attached AI Accelerator Disaggregation
Jaewan Hong, Yifan Qiao, Soujanya Ponnapalli, Shu Liu (UC Berkeley); Marcos K. Aguilera (VMware Research Group); Vincent Liu (University of Pennsylvania); Chris Rossbach (UT Austin & Microsoft); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
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FlowPulse: Catching Network Failures in ML Clusters
Jakob Krebs, Dima Gavrilenko, Daniel Amir (Technion); Shir Landau Feibish (Open University of Israel); Mark Silberstein (Technion)
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Photonic Rails in ML Datacenters
Eric Ding, Chuhan Ouyang, Rachee Singh (Cornell University)
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One to Many: Closing the Bandwidth Gap in AI Datacenters with Scalable Multicast
Sepehr Abdous, Jinqi Lu, Jiacheng Wan, Erfan Sharafzadeh (Johns Hopkins University); Ying Zhang (Meta); Soudeh Ghorbani (Meta & Johns Hopkins University)
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JEEVES: The Valet Who Masters the Art of Cross-DC Training Scheduling
Haotian Deng (Tsinghua University); Xuebin Song, Menghao Zhang (Beihang University); Yuan Yang, Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University)
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3:15pm - 4:00pm

Reverse Panel
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Session 5: Autopilot Engaged

Session Chair: Venkat Arun (UT Austin)
Tackling Ambiguity in User Intent for LLM-based Network Configuration Synthesis
Rajdeep Mondal (UCLA); Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft); Todd Millstein (UCLA); Alan Tang (Microsoft); George Varghese (UCLA)
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Just-in-Time Logic Enforcement: A New Paradigm of Combining Statistical and Symbolic Reasoning for Network Management
Hongyu Hè (Princeton University); Maria Apostolaki (Princeton)
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Programmable and Adaptive Scheduling for Distributed Systems
Yuyao Wang, Xiangfeng Zhu, Ratul Mahajan, Stephanie Wang (University of Washington)
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Software Managed Networks via Coarsening
Pradeep Dogga (UCLA); Rachee Singh (Cornell); Suman Nath (Microsoft Research); Ravi Netravali (Princeton); Jens Palsberg (UCLA); George Varghese (UCLA)
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Towards Accessible Model-Free Verification
Alexander Krentsel (UC Berkeley/Google); Oliver Ye, Anthony Tafoya, Xuqian Ma (Google); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley/Google); Anees Shaikh (Google)
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5:45pm-8:30pm

Reception (The Hall CP)

Day 2 / Tuesday, November 18, 2025

8:00am

Breakfast (Atrium Room, Room 1107)
9:00am - 10:00am

Session 6: On Second Thought

Session Chair: Jhonatan Tavori (Columbia University)
Towards Incremental MTU Upgrade for the Internet
Junghan Yoon (Seoul National University); Youngmin Choi (KAIST); Juyoung Park (SNU); Daehyeok Kim (UT Austin); Changhoon Kim (Google); KyoungSoo Park (SNU)
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Beyond Lamport, Towards Probabilistic Fair Ordering
Haseeb Ashfaq (NYU); Jinkun Geng (Stanford); Radhika Mittal (UIUC); Aurojit Panda (NYU); Srinivas Narayana (Rutgers); Anirudh Sivaraman (NYU)
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Rethinking Geolocalization on the Internet
Augustin Laouar (ENS Lyon); Loic Desgeorges (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1); Paul Schmitt (Cal Poly / ICSI); Francesco Bronzino (ENS Lyon)
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Petabit Router-in-a-Package: Rethinking Internet Routers in the Age of In-Packaged Optics and Heterogeneous Integration
Isaac Keslassy (Technion); Bill Lin (UCSD)
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Rethinking the Role of Network Stacks for Website Fingerprinting Defenses
Elisaveta Lavrentieva, Marc Juarez, Michio Honda (University of Edinburgh)
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10:00am - 10:30am

Break
10:30am - 11:30am

Session 7: 127.0.0.1

Session Chair: Georgia Fragkouli (ETH Zürich)
Towards Structurally Extensible Host Network Stacks
Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi (EPFL); Rishabh Iyer (UC Berkeley); Sanidhya Kashyap (EPFL)
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OpenDesc: From Static NIC Descriptors to Evolvable Metadata Interfaces
Seyyidahmed Lahmer, Nikita Tyunyayev, Tom Barbette (UCLouvain)
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Your network doesn't end at the NIC
Raj Joshi (Harvard); Saksham Agarwal (UIUC); ChonLam Lao, Minlan Yu (Harvard)
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Server Chiplet Networking
Seunghyun An, Joontaek Oh, Ming Liu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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Remote Direct Code Execution
Yibo Huang (University of Michigan); Yiming Qiu (University of Hong Kong); Daqian Ding (SJTU); Patrick Kon, Yiwen Zhang, Yuzhou Mao, Archit Bhatnagar, Mosharaf Chowdhury (University of Michigan); Srinivas Devadas (MIT); Jiarong Xing (Rice University); Ang Chen (University of Michigan)
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11:30am - 1:00pm

Lunch (Atrium Room, Room 1107)
1:00pm - 2:00pm

Session 8: Growing Pains

Session Chair: Daniel Amir (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
It Is Time to Address Network Power Proportionality
Lukas Röllin, Romain Jacob (ETH Zürich); Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zurich)
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Rethinking the Cost of Distributed Caches for Datacenter Services
Ziming Mao (UC Berkeley); Jonathan Ellithorpe, Atul Adya (Databricks); Rishabh Iyer, Matei Zaharia (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley/ICSI); Ion Stoica (UC Berkeley)
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When Light Bends to the Collective Will: A Theory and Vision for Adaptive Photonic Scale-up Domains
Vamsi Addanki (Purdue University)
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Once Bitten, Still Shy: Can We Prevent Cloud Systems from Repeating Their Mistakes?
Dimas Parikesit, Chang Lou (University of Virginia)
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Mitigating Inter-datacenter Incast with a Proxy
Anchengcheng Zhou, Carter Costic, Hongyu Hè (Princeton); Ahmad Ghalayini, Abdul Kabbani (Microsoft); Maria Apostolaki (Princeton)
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2:00pm - 2:15pm

Break
2:15pm - 3:15pm

Session 9: Edge Cases

Session Chair: Maria Apostolaki (Princeton University)
A Modern Edge-based Design for Cellular Roaming
Tenzin Samten Ukyab (UC Berkeley); Shaddi Hasan (Virginia Tech); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley); Scott Shenker (UC Berkeley/ICSI)
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Automatically Surfacing Opportunities for Improvements In Internet-Scale Applications
Vipul Harsh (Conviva); Sayan Sinha (Georgia Tech & Conviva); Henry Milner, Haijie Wu (Conviva); B. Aditya Prakash (Georgia Tech & Conviva); Vyas Sekar, Hui Zhang (CMU & Conviva)
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Leveraging Certificate Transparency to Mitigate Downgrade Attacks
Hyunsoo Kim, Myungbin Hwang, Taekyoung “Ted” Kwon (Seoul National University)
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The Case for Crowd-Sourcing Communication to BLE-Only Devices
Alex Bellon (UC San Diego); Tess Despres, Prabal Dutta (UC Berkeley); Pat Pannuto (UC San Diego); Sylvia Ratnasamy (UC Berkeley)
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The Internet as Sisyphus: Repeating Measurements, Missing Causes
Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University)
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3:15pm - 4:00pm

Reverse Panel
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Session 10: New Endpoint, Who This?

Session Chair: Xiaoqi Chen (Purdue University)
Above the Clouds: New Software Challenges in Space Computing
Haoda Wang, Robert Leo Pendergrast, Kristófer Fannar Björnsson, Anika Somaia, Ezra Landa, Junfeng Yang, Asaf Cidon (Columbia University)
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Chat with AI: The Surprising Turn of Real-time Video Communication from Human to AI
Jiangkai Wu, Zhiyuan Ren, Liming Liu, Xinggong Zhang (Peking University)
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Towards Verifiable Network Telemetry without Special Purpose Hardware
Jaechan An, Zeying Zhu, Ian Miers, Zaoxing Liu (University of Maryland)
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From req/res to pub/sub: Exploring Media over QUIC Transport for DNS
Mathis Engelbart, Mike Kosek (Technical University of Munich); Lars Eggert (Mozilla); Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich)
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FlexSFP: Rethinking Network Intelligence Inside the Cable
Angelo Tulumello (CNIT/Axbryd); Alessandro Rivitti, Giacomo Belocchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata/Axbryd); Giuseppe Bianchi (University of Rome Tor Vergata); Luka Perkov (Bit Ltd.)
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5:00pm - 5:05pm

Closing Remarks