RISE Winter 2019 Retreat
March 2019 


This newsletter will provide an update on some of the many exciting recent activities, accomplishments, and events at RISELab.

Most notably, we are excited to announce the launch of RISELab's DARE program . One of the most challenging barriers to participating in research for undergraduate students is reaching out to professors and finding a match that works for both the student and the professor.  DARE, founded by Professor Raluca Ada Popa and her students Wenting Zheng and Jessica Ji, acts as an active liaison to remove this barrier and make electrical engineering and computer science research more readily accessible, as well as to encourage diversity of thought in these growing fields. DARE strongly encourages women and traditionally under-represented groups to apply.

Our faculty were honored by several significant awards. Professor David Culler received the prestigious ACM SenSys Test of Time Award for 2018 , and the ACM SenSys '18 Best Paper Runner-up Award for his group work on system architecture for networked sensors. Professor Ion Stoica, together with Xin Jin (a RISELab alumni and now a faculty at Johns Hopkins University) received the Best Paper Award at the 17th USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (Fast) for their work on provable load-balancing techniques for distributed caching in large scale systems.

To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the landmark publication " Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing " which cleared up the considerable confusion about the new notion of "Cloud Computing," we have published " Cloud Programming Simplified: A Berkeley View on Serverless Computing " with some of the same authors. Serverless Computing provides an interface that greatly simplifies cloud programming, and represents an evolution that closely parallels past advances in programmer productivity, such as the transition from assembly language to high-level programming languages. 

Another paper authored by the members of RISELab, " Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, " is focusing  on the limitations and the research opportunities in serverless computing, and was published at CIDR 2019 .
We also continue to publish influential papers in several top systems and AI venues.  These papers address topics ranging from cryptographic primitives and efficient communication protocols to new frameworks for distributed reinforcement learning and second order optimization methods for neural networks.

Some of our systems have been seeing broader adoption. In particular, Ray has now reached over 130 contributors and over 6,000 Github stars. Furthermore, our collaborator and sponsor, Ant Financial, uses it in production for the Double Eleven (Nov 11th)  shopping festival-- the Chinese Black Friday --to detect frauds. The system detected around 17,000 fraudulent transactions during the first hour, while increasing the recall rate by 35% compared to the previous system. 

More details on these and other activities are below.

Thank you for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing you at upcoming RISE events.
 
Professor Ion Stoica
RISELab Director


NEWS

2/14/19: New DARE website just launched! 

11/26/19 Professor Culler receives ACM SenSys Test of Time Award 2018


11/7/18:  RISECamp 2018  Photos  and  Videos  are now available online. 
FACULTY KEYNOTES

Ken Goldberg: 
Joseph Hellerstein
  • Distinguished Lecture, McMaster University, "Programming the Cloud," 2/25/19  
  • Distinguished Lecture, Pinterest Labs, "Supporting Machine Learning and Analytics Lifecycles," 10/29/18
  • Speaker, NorCal DB Day, "Ground/Flor of the  RISELab : Experiment Management for the Era of Empirical Machine Learning," 5/4/18
Michael I. Jordan: 

Anthony Joseph:
  • Invited Talk, UCSF Echo AI Summit, "Scalable Systems and Algorithms for Genomic Analyses," 2/23/19

Michael Mahoney:   
David Patterson:
Ion Stoica
BLOGS




Joe Hellerstein: An Overview of the CALM Theorem 1/8/19




SEMINARS

3/8/19: Three Modeling Vignettes from Search Ads Quality at Google by Sugato Basu




 
10/5/18: Building a broad knowledge graph for products, a talk by Xin Luna Dong

9/21/18: Remote Memory for Non-Masochists, a talk by Marcos Aguilera

PUBLICATIONS

 

Helen: Maliciously Secure Coopetitive Learning for Linear Models

Conference/Journal: IEEE S&P 2019

Publication Date: Not Published Yet 
Author(s): Wenting Zheng, Raluca Ada Popa, Joseph Gonzalez, Ion Stoica

 

ALICE: Autonomous Link-based Cell Scheduling for TSCH

Conference/Journal: IPSN 2019: The 18th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks

Publication Date: Not Published Yet
Author(s): Seohyang Kim, Hyung-Sin Kim, Chongkwon Kim

 

Interactive Checks for Coordination Avoidance

Conference/Journal: VLDB

Publication Date: Not Published Yet
Author(s): Michael Whittaker, Joe Hellerstein

 

Autoscaling Tiered Cloud Storage in Anna

Conference/Journal: VLDB 19

Publication Date: Not Published Yet
Author(s): Chenggang Wu, Vikram Sreekanti, Joe Hellerstein

 

Shuffling, Fast and Slow: Scalable Analytics on Serverless Infrastructure

Conference/Journal: USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'19)

Publication Date: 2/26/2019
Author(s): Qifan Pu, Shivaram Venkataraman, Ion Stoica

 

Confluo: Distributed Monitoring and Diagnosis Stack for High-speed Networks

Conference/Journal: USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'19)

Publication Date: 2/26/2019
Author(s): Anurag Khandelwal, Rachit Agarwal, Ion Stoica

 

Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Conference/Journal: CIDR '19

Publication Date: 1/15/2019
Author(s): Joe Hellerstein, Jose M. Faleiro, Joseph Gonzalez, Johann Schleier-Smith, Vikram Sreekanti, Alexey Tumanov, Chenggang Wu

 

SkipNet: Learning Dynamic Routing in Convolutional Networks

Conference/Journal: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2018

Publication Date: 11/26/2018
Author(s): Xin Wang, Fisher Yu, Zi-Yi Dou, Trevor Darrell, Joseph Gonzalez

 

System Architecture Directions for Post-SoC/32-bit Networked Sensors

Conference/Journal: The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '18)

Publication Date: 11/04/2018
Author(s): Hyung-Sin Kim, Michael Andersen, Kaifei Chen, Sam Kumar, William J. Zhao, Kevin Ma, David Culler

 

MARVEL: Enabling Mobile Augmented Reality with Low Energy and Low Latency

Conference/Journal: The 16th ACM Conferenceon Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys '18)

Publication Date: 11/04/2018
Author(s): Kaifei Chen, Tong Li, Hyung-Sin Kim, David Culler, Randy Katz

 

Benchmarks for reinforcement learning in mixed-autonomy traffic

Conference/Journal: 2nd Conference on Robot Learning

Publication Date: 10/31/2018
Author(s): Eugene Vinitsky, Aboudy Kriedieh, Luc Le Flem, Nishant Kheterpal, Kathy Jang, Cathy Wu, Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, Alexandre Bayen

 

Mitigating the Latency-Accuracy Trade-off in Mobile Data Analytics Systems

Conference/Journal: 24th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom)

Publication Date: 10/29/2018
Author(s): Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Li Erran Li, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Ion Stoica

 

Debugging Distributed Systems with Why-Across-Time Provenance

Conference/Journal: SOCC

Publication Date: 10/11/2018
Author(s): Michael Whittaker, Cristina Teodoropol, Peter Alvaro, Joe Hellerstein

 

Ray: A Distributed Framework for Emerging AI Applications

Conference/Journal: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)

Publication Date: 10/10/2018
Author(s): Philipp Moritz, Robert Nishihara, Stephanie Wang, Alexey Tumanov, Richard Liaw, Eric Liang, Melih Elibol, Zongheng Yang, William Paul, Michael Jordan, Ion Stoica

 

ASAP: Fast, Approximate Graph Pattern Mining at Scale

Conference/Journal: USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI)

Publication Date: 10/10/2018
Author(s): Anand Padmanabha Iyer, Zaoxing Liu, Xin Jin, Shivaram Venkataraman, Vladimir Braverman, Ion Stoica

 

FairFuzz: A Targeted Mutation Strategy for Increasing Greybox Fuzz Testing Coverage

Conference/Journal: 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Publication Date: 9/03/2018
Author(s): Caroline Lemieux, Koushik Sen

 

e-mission: An Open-Source, Smartphone Platform for Collecting Human Travel Data

Conference/Journal: Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Publication Date: 8/19/2018
Author(s): K. Shankari, Mohamed Amine Bouzaghrane, Samuel M. Maurer, Paul Waddell, David Culler, Randy Katz

 

Context: The Missing Piece in the Machine Learning Lifecycle

Conference/Journal: Workshop on Common Model Infrastructure, KDD 2018

Publication Date: 8/19/2018
Author(s): Rolando Garcia, Vikram Sreekanti, Neeraja Yadwadkar, Dan Crankshaw, Joseph Gonzalez, Joe Hellerstein

 

IDK Cascades: Fast Deep Learning by Learning not to Overthink

Conference/Journal: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) 2018

Publication Date: 7/18/2018
Author(s): Xin Wang, Yujia Luo, Dan Crankshaw, Alexey Tumanov, Fisher Yu, Joseph Gonzalez

 

PerfFuzz: Automatically Generating Pathological Inputs

Conference/Journal: 27th International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

Publication Date: 7/12/2018
Author(s): Caroline Lemieux, Rohan Padhye, Koushik Sen, Dawn song
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