NSDI '26

23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation

May 4–6, 2026

Renton, WA, USA

Spring paper titles and abstracts due Friday, April 18, 2025

The 23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '26) will be held on May 4–6, 2026, in Renton, WA, USA. NSDI focuses on the design principles, implementation, and practical evaluation of networked and distributed systems. Our goal is to bring together researchers from across the networking and systems community to foster a broad approach to addressing overlapping research challenges.

Interested in Participating? View the Call for Papers. Paper titles and abstracts for the spring submission deadline are due on Friday, April 18, 2025.

Submit a nomination for the NSDI Test of Time Award! The award honors NSDI papers published 10+ years ago that have had a significant impact within our community of networked systems researchers and practitioners and beyond. Nominations received by January 5, 2026, will be considered for the 2026 award. Any nominations received after that date will be considered for 2027.

Venue

Hyatt Regency Lake Washington
1053 Lake Washington Blvd. N
Renton, WA 98056
USA
+1 425.203.1234

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Symposium Organizers

Srikanth Kandula

Amazon Web Services

Program Co-Chair

Hakim Weatherspoon

Cornell University

Program Co-Chair

Program Committee

Sangeetha Abdujyothi, University of California, Irvine, and VMware Research

Atul Adya, Databricks

Saksham Agarwal, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Zahaib Akhtar, Amazon and North Carolina State University

Mohammad Alizadeh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Microsoft

Gianni Antichi, Politecnico di Milano and Queen Mary University of London

Maria Apostolaki, Princeton University

Mina Arashloo, University of Waterloo

Venkat Arun, The University of Texas at Austin

Behnaz Arzani, Microsoft

Wei Bai, NVIDIA

Aruna Balasubramanian, Stony Brook University

Hitesh Ballani, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Ryan Beckett, Microsoft

Ran Benbasat, University College London

Ken Birman, Cornell University

Fabian Bustamante, Northwestern University

Matthew Caesar, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Qizhe Cai, University of Virginia and Enfabrica

Marco Canini, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Ranveer Chandra, Microsoft

Kai Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Shuang Chen, Huawei

Xiaoqi Chen, Purdue University

Marco Chiesa, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Houda Chihi, InnovCOM Sup'COM

Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research

Murat Demirbas, MongoDB Research

Nandita Dukkipati, Google

Lars Eggert, Mozilla

Eric Eide, University of Utah

Christian Esteve Rothenberg, University of Campinas (Unicamp)

Shir Feibish, The Open University of Israel

Anja Feldmann, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Rodrigo Fonseca, Microsoft Research

Yashar Ganjali, University of Toronto

Soudeh Ghorbani, Johns Hopkins University and Meta

Ayush Goel

Sergey Gorinsky, IMDEA Networks Institute

Ramesh Govindan, University of Southern California

Arpit Gupta, University of California, Santa Barbara

Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Suyash Gupta, University of Oregon

Hamed Haddadi, Imperial College London

Andreas Haeberlen, University of Pennsylvania

Keqiang He, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Kurtis Heimerl, University of Washington

Mary Hogan, Oberlin

Oliver Hohlfeld, University of Kassel

Michio Honda, University of Edinburgh

Kevin Hsieh, Microsoft

Ryan Huang, University of Michigan

Anand Iyer, Georgia Institute of Technology

Rishabh Iyer, University of California, Berkeley

Kyle Jamieson, Princeton University

Zhihao Jia, Carnegie Mellon University

Junchen Jiang, University of Chicago

Xin Jin, Peking University

Vasiliki Kalavri , Boston University

Zerina Kapetanovic, Stanford University

Manos Kapritsos, University of Michigan

Antoine Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS)

Eric Keller, University of Colorado

Anurag Khandelwal, Yale University

Changhoon Kim, Google

Daehyeok Kim, The University of Texas at Austin

Hyojoon Kim, University of Virginia

Dejan Kostić, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Arvind Krishnamurthy, University of Washington

Umesh Krishnaswamy, Microsoft

Praveen Kumar, Google

Sam Kumar, University of California, Los Angeles

Zeqi Lai, Tsinghua University

Dan Li, Tsinghua University and Zhongguancun Laboratory

Huaicheng Li, Virginia Tech

David Lie, University of Toronto

Kate Lin, National Chiao Tung University

Alan Liu, University of Maryland

Grace Liu, NYU Shanghai and Peking University

Hongqiang Liu, Uber

Jing Liu, Microsoft Research

Ming Liu, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Vincent Liu, University of Pennsylvania

Ioana Livadariu, Simula Metropolitan

Chang Lou, University of Virginia

Jonathan Mace, Microsoft Research

Ratul Mahajan, University of Washington

Ajay Mahimkar, AT&T Labs—Research

Dave Maltz, Microsoft

Sathiya Mani, Microsoft Research

Allison Mankin, Salesforce

Morley Mao, University of Michigan and Google

Zili Meng, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Anu Mercian, Google

Congcong Miao, Tencent

Vishal Misra, Columbia University

Andrew Moore, University of Cambridge

Akshay Narayan, Brown University

Srinivas Narayana, Rutgers University

Dushyanth Narayanan, Microsoft Research Cambridge

Suman Nath, Microsoft Research

Ravi Netravali, Princeton University

Eugene Ng, Rice University

Jason Nieh, Columbia University

Dave Oran, Network Systems Research & Design

Seojin Park, University of Southern California

Cristel Pelsser, UCLouvain

Adrian Perrig, ETH Zurich

Boris Pismenny, NVIDIA

Soujanya Ponnapalli, University of California, Berkeley, EECS Department

Shixiong Qi, University of Kentucky

Lili Qiu, Microsoft Research

Kk Ramakrishnan, University of California, Riverside

Ram Ramjee, Microsoft Research India

Sanjay Rao, Purdue University

Gábor Rétvári, Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Robert Ricci, University of Utah

Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa

Ahmed Saeed, Georgia Institute of Technology

Raja Sambasivan, Tufts University

Stefan Saroiu, Microsoft Research

Stefan Schmid, Technische Universität Berlin

Srini Seshan, Carnegie Mellon University

Muhammad Shahbaz, University of Michigan

Ji-Yong Shin, Northeastern University

Vishal Shrivastav, Purdue University

Yuanchao Shu, Zhejiang University

Rachee Singh, Cornell University

Giuseppe Siracusano, NEC Laboratories Europe

Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Anirudh Sivaraman, New York University

Alex Snoeren, University of California, San Diego, and Google

Robert Soule, Yale University

Patrick Stuedi, Meta

Lakshmi Subramanian, New York University

Srikanth Sundaresan, Meta

Doug Terry, Amazon Web Services

Amin Vahdat, Google

Laurent Vanbever, ETH Zurich

Shay Vargaftik, Broadcom Research

Shivaram Venkataraman, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Mythili Vutukuru, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

David Walker, Princeton University

Chenxi Wang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jia Wang, AT&T Labs—Research

Jingxian Wang, National University of Singapore

Michael Wei, Broadcom

Matt Welsh, Aryn

Walter Willinger, Niksun

Tim Wood, George Washington University

Yiting Xia, Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Jiarong Xing, Rice University and University of California, Berkeley

Erci Xu, Alibaba Cloud

Hong Xu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Le Xu, ByteDance

Mingwei Xu, Tsinghua University and Zhongguancun Laboratory

Tianyin Xu, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Francis Yan, University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Xiaowei Yang, Duke University and Google

Ennan Zhai, Alibaba Cloud

Junxue Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Peng Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University

Qizhen Zhang, University of Toronto

Yang Zhou, University of California, Davis, and University of California, Berkeley

Danyang Zhuo, Duke University

Noa Zilberman, University of Oxford

Steering Committee

Mahesh Balakrishnan, Meta

Casey Henderson-Ross, USENIX Association

Jon Howell, VMware Research

Jay Lorch, Microsoft Research

James Mickens, Harvard University

Amar Phanishayee, Meta

George Porter, University of California, San Diego

Renata Teixeira, Netflix

Minlan Yu, Harvard University

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