Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Bhoomika Narasimhulu, Xiaoxuan Li, Varun Jain and Stephen Cao
2405 Siebel Center for Comp Sci and on Zoom
The Compilers, Architecture, and Parallel Computing (CAP) Seminar is geared toward anyone affiliated with the University of Illinois to discuss research in these three (and tangential) areas. We meet once a week and critique papers, practice presentations, and discuss ideas.
Please email the CAP Seminar organizers if you have any questions or want to present in the seminar.
| Date | Type | Speaker | Paper/Topic | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 25 | Logistics | Saugata Ghose | Fall Kickoff | |
| September 1 | No Seminar | |||
| September 8 | Paper Presentation | Ingi Helgason | HBF Sucks? A Full-Stack Characterization of High-Bandwidth Flash for KV-Centric LLM Serving | |
| September 15 | Open Mic | Stephen Cao | Optimization Methods in the XLA Compiler for Training | |
| Open Mic | Aniket Das | BRIE-RAM: Exploring Biodegradable Processing-Using-Memory for Sustainable Edge Sensing | ||
| Open Mic | Pavlo Pastaryev | Move fast, break peer review? | ||
| September 22 | Guest Speaker | Nandita Vijaykumar (Toronto) | Architecting Efficient and Scalable Systems for Physical Intelligence and Visual Computing | |
| September 29 | Presentation | Qirong Xia | LILo: Harnessing the On-Chip Accelerators in Intel CPUs for Compressed LLM Inference Acceleration | |
| Presentation | Sudhanshu Agarwal | Uncovering Hidden Memory Costs for Garbage Collection | ||
| October 6 | Paper Presentation | Ahmed Hegazi and Alex Lee | Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications (OSDI 2018) | |
| October 13 | Open Mic | Bhoomika Narasimhulu | LLMs Are Becoming Compilers: How LLMCompiler Parallelizes AI Agents | |
| Open Mic | Xiaoxuan Li | Generalized Cache Coherence | ||
| Open Mic | Varun Jain | RAMageddon | ||
| Open Mic | Stephen Cao | Pallas: Writing High Performance Custom Kernels in JAX | ||
| October 20 | Presentation | Jefferson Zhang | Agent Abstractions | |
| Presentation | Aniket Chatterjee | |||
| October 27 | Paper Presentation | Landon Johnson and Med Kane | pulse: Accelerating Distributed Pointer-Traversals on Disaggregated Memory (ASPLOS 2025) | |
| November 3 | No Seminar | |||
| November 10 | Presentation | Jaeyoung Kang | AMG: AMX-GPU Cooperative Acceleration of Billion-Scale ANNS via GEMM Reformulation | |
| Presentation | Gregory Jun | Heterogeneous FPGA and GPU | ||
| November 17 | Open Mic | Xiaoxuan Li | ||
| Open Mic | Varun Jain | |||
| Open Mic | Bhoomika Narasimhulu | |||
| Open Mic | Aniket Das | |||
| November 24 | No Seminar | |||
| December 1 | Guest Speaker | |||
| December 8 | Paper Presentation | Arjun Vedantham and Anna Li | Modular Hardware Design with Timeline Types (PLDI 2023) | |