OrderLab Reading Group

Winter 2026

Tuesdays 3:00pm – 4:30pm, 4901 BBB

Coordinator: Kevin Xue

Description

The reading group organized by the OrderLab covers latest advances in the research of computer systems. Students will read and discuss recent papers in top systems conferences such as OSDI, SOSP, NSDI, EuroSys, and ASPLOS.

Each week, one student will present the paper and lead the discussion. Other students should read the paper to be presented before the seminar. This seminar is supposed to generate in-depth discussions. It is impossible to do so without reading the paper first.

The focus topics covered in the papers vary semester to semester. Example topics include fault-tolerance, reliability, verification, energy efficiency, and virtualization. The presenter decides which paper to present. In general, select the papers that are relevant to your research project first (i.e., depth-first). If you are not sure, check with Ryan first before preparing the presentation. Also, try to avoid picking papers that have already been picked in the past (the past schedules are linked on the left-side menu).

If you need to present, please first sign up here at least two weeks in advance. Then, around one week before the meeting, you should send another reminder to the group via our reading group mailing list orderlab-talk@umich.edu, which will also be used to generate follow-up discussions of the presented paper. Students who wish to sign up for the mailing list, please email ryanph@umich.edu.

Schedule

Date Presenter Title Conference Material
01/13/2026 Ziming Zhou

KPerfIR: towards an open and compiler-centric ecosystem for GPU kernel performance tooling on modern AI workloads

Yue Guan, Yuanwei Fang, Keren Zhou, Corbin Robeck, Manman Ren, Zhongkai Yu, Yufei Ding, and Adnan Aziz

OSDI '25 Paper
01/20/2026 Kevin Xue

Prelim Practice Talk

01/27/2026 Yuxuan Jiang

Pie: A Programmable Serving System for Emerging LLM Applications

In Gim, Zhiyao Ma, Seung-seob Lee, and Lin Zhong

SOSP '25 Paper