NSDI '21 Sponsor Events

All the times listed below are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).

Monday, April 12

Facebook: Research Programs and Recruiting Ask-Me-Anything Session

1:00 pm–1:45 pm EDT
Sponsored by Facebook

Interested in learning more about the work we are doing in the Networking space? Curious what our hiring process is like? Come chat with us! Facebook recruiters and researchers will be available at our Sponsor Slack channel and for virtual “booth” sessions via Zoom during the listed times. Zoom link in the VAH and Facebook Slack channel.

Microsoft: Ask-Me-Anything Session

4:00 pm–5:00 pm EDT
Sponsored by Microsoft

Join Microsoft researchers in this AMA to learn more about the research being presented at NSDI and other opportunities. Panel - Dan Ports, Siddhartha Sen, & Kevin Hsieh. Link is in the Microsoft NSDI Slack channel and the VAH.

 

Tuesday, April 13

Facebook: Research Programs and Recruiting Ask-Me-Anything Session

1:00 pm–1:30 pm EDT
Sponsored by Facebook

Interested in learning more about the work we are doing in the Networking space? Curious what our hiring process is like? Come chat with us! Facebook recruiters and researchers will be available at our Sponsor Slack channel and for virtual “booth” sessions via Zoom during the listed times. Zoom link in the VAH and Facebook Slack channel.

Amazon: Tech Talk

4:00 pm–4:30 pm EDT Updated Time!
Sponsored by Amazon

Speaker: JR Rivers, Senior Principle Engineer at Amazon Web Services

Operating a massively scaled global network has shattered the "if it ain’t broke, don't fix it" mindset often associated with network upgrades. This talk will discuss some of the characteristics and challenges of the multi-service system Amazon uses to deploy enhancements, bug fixes, and security patches to the network in a way that asymptotically approaches CI/CD. Join us on Tuesday at 4:00 PM EDT: Link in the Virtual Attendee Hub and in the Amazon Slack channel.

Google: Ask-Me-Anything Session

4:45 pm–5:30 pm EDT
Sponsored by Google
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Join Google for an "Ask Me Anything" (AMA) Event to close our day 2 of NSDI Day 2. We will have 4 Ph.D. Googlers on the call answering your questions, on anything from their research/backgrounds to current project work or opportunities at Google. If interested in tuning in, please fill out this interest form to get added to the video call invite. Information on our speakers:

Moderator: Jeff Mogul (He/Him) is a Principal Software Engineer in Google's Network Infrastructure team. He's currently working on improving and expanding our use of model-based system management, and co-authors several conference papers each year. Prior to joining Google in 2013, Jeff got a PhD at Stanford and worked in corporate research at DEC and HP; he's an ACM Fellow and has co-chaired conferences including NSDI, OSDI, SIGCOMM, and others.

Panelist #1: Andrew Ferguson (He/Him) is currently the Tech Lead and manager for the datacenter network edge, including the Fabric Border Router (FBR) and Raven BGP teams. He has been at Google for nearly seven years, working in several areas of Orion since its infancy. He lives in NYC and received his PhD from Brown University in 2014.

Panelist #2: Deniz Altınbüken (She/Her) is a Senior Software Engineer and Tech Lead in the Storage Infrastructure team at Google. In addition to Structured Storage she works on Learned Systems, employing Machine Learning to advance systems. Deniz received her PhD from Cornell University in 2017 and is an active member of the Distributed Systems community, regularly volunteering as a PC member in conferences and as a mentor for students.

Panelist #3: Mojgan Ghasemi (She/Her) is a Senior Software Engineer in Google Global Networking, focusing on Google’s Edge network (B2). Prior to Google, she was at Akamai Technologies, working on CDN and video streaming optimizations while also teaching graduate networking course at Northeastern University. Mojgan earned her PhD from Princeton University, advised by professor Jen Rexford.

 

Wednesday, April 14

N2Women: Mentorship and Networking Panel

1:00 pm–1:30 pm EDT
Courtesy of Facebook and USENIX

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Topic: How to combat gender bias and take advantage of positive effects of gender diversity in the workplace

Please join this interactive panel discussion with distinguished panelists from academia and industry who will share their knowledge and profound experiences of their research career with us. Attendance is open to all who identify as women and allies registered for NSDI. Please RSVP as soon as possible to the Sign Up Form to get the meeting link.

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We are now accepting applications for N2Women 1:1 mentoring program - both for mentors and mentees. The deadline for the first round of applications is May 7th and for the second round is in October. The goal of the N2W 1:1 mentoring program is to facilitate forming individualized mentorship between junior researchers and experienced researchers, beyond those available at their institutions. Senior researchers who are willing to share their experiences and knowledge with young researchers should consider becoming mentors. Mentors are encouraged to provide professional advice on research, career choices, scholarship opportunities and networking. An N2Women mentee is a researcher who wants to obtain advice and mentoring from a senior researcher on a direct basis, beyond those available at their institutions.

For more information about the mentorship program and for applying as a mentor or a mentee, visit: https://n2women.comsoc.org/mentoring/n2women-one-to-one-mentoring.