Next Seminar
None scheduled. See y'all next semester!

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.


Spring 2026 Schedule

Date Type Speaker Paper/Topic
January 20 Logistics Saugata Ghose Spring Kickoff
January 27 Presentation Yuchen Xia Sphinx: Efficiently Serving Novel View Synthesis using Regression-Guided Selective Refinement
February 3 Presentation Ziqi Zhang Hardware-Rooted Secure LLM System
February 10 No Seminar
February 17 Guest Speaker Jianming Tong FEATHER: A Reconfigurable Accelerator with Data Reordering Support for Low-Cost On-Chip Dataflow Switching
February 24 Open Mic Nick Satchanov Unconventional (& Impractical) Methods for Data Migration
Open Mic Raul de la Fuente That One Time the US Military Built a Supercomputer out of 1,760 PS3s
Open Mic Saman Dehghan Mechanisms for Fast Network Packet Processing
Open Mic Dingyuan Cao Side Channel Attack in The Era of LLM
March 3 Paper Presentation Dawei Xiong and Lei Huang ThymesisFlow: A Software-Defined, HW/SW Co-Designed Interconnect Stack for Rack-Scale Memory Disaggregation
March 10 Presentation Hrishi Shah Memory Optimization and KV Cache Management in LLM Serving
Presentation Siddharth Agarwal TINA: Fast Networking in Chiplet-based CPUs
March 17 No Seminar
March 24 No Seminar
March 31 Presentation Arjun Vedantham Compilers for Hardware Design
Presentation Noelle Crawford Waferscale AI Chips
April 7 No Seminar
April 14 Paper Presentation Kyle Jones and Evie Shen A graph placement methodology for fast chip design
April 21 Open Mic Nick Satchanov Unified Memory Architecture
Open Mic Saman Dehghan LLMs Are Compilers Now
Open Mic Dingyuan Cao WTF Is This LoC
Open Mic Raul de la Fuente What if the bubble pops?
April 28 Presentation Gregory Jun Robots on the Edge
Presentation Aniket Chatterjee Temporal Coding for NoC Power Reduction
May 5 Paper Presentation Alex Lee and Nishk Patel Carat: Unlocking Value-Level Parallelism for Multiplier-Free GEMMs

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