University of Southern California#

8 picked talks across 5 digests with a speaker from University of Southern California, newest first.

PETS 2026#

• Personalizing Agent Privacy Decisions via Logical Entailment · Core — Authors: James Flemings (University of Southern California), Ren Yi (Google), Octavian Suciu (Google), Kassem Fawaz (University of Wisconsin--Madison), Murali Annavaram (University of Southern California), Marco Gruteser (Google)

NANOG 97#

• Towards a Non-Binary View of IPv6 Adoption · Wildcard — Sulyab Thottungal Valapu – University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute (with John Heidemann)

NSDI '26#

• From Bits to Tokens: Knowledge-Driven Generative Communication of Multimodal Data · Wildcard — Xingyu Chen (UC San Diego), Zihao Feng (USC), Wuqiong Zhao (UCSD), Jianrong Ding (CUHK), Ke Sun (Michigan), Xinyu Zhang (UCSD)

SIGCOMM 2025#

• ZENITH: Towards a Formally Verified Highly-Available Control Plane · Adjacent — Pooria Namyar et al. (USC, Google)
• Firefly: Scalable, Ultra-Accurate Clock Synchronization for Datacenters · Wildcard — Pooria Namyar et al. (Google, USC, NVIDIA)

NSDI '25#

• Mitigating Scalability Walls of RDMA-based Container Networks · Core — Wei Liu (Tsinghua and Alibaba Cloud); Kun Qian (Alibaba Cloud); Zhenhua Li (Tsinghua); Feng Qian (USC); Tianyin Xu (UIUC); Yunhao Liu (Tsinghua); Yu Guan, Shuhong Zhu, Hongfei Xu, Lanlan Xi, Chao Qin, Ennan Zhai (Alibaba Cloud). Core.
• Everything Matters in Programmable Packet Scheduling (PACKS) · Core — Albert Gran Alcoz (ETH Zürich); Balázs Vass (BME-TMIT); Pooria Namyar (USC); Behnaz Arzani (Microsoft Research); Gábor Rétvári (BME-TMIT); Laurent Vanbever (ETH Zürich). Core.
• Quicksand: Harnessing Stranded Datacenter Resources with Granular Computing · Wildcard — Zhenyuan Ruan, Kaiyan Fan, Adam Belay (MIT CSAIL); Shihang Li, Malte Schwarzkopf (Brown); Seo Jin Park (USC); Marcos K. Aguilera (VMware Research by Broadcom). Wildcard.