23rd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation
May 4–6, 2026
Renton, WA, USA
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.
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 future years.
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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
Ran Ben Basat, University College London
Ryan Beckett, Microsoft
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, Meta
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
Artifact Evaluation Committee Co-Chairs
Anny Zheng, Google
Zhizhen Zhong, Netpreme
Artifact Evaluation Committee
Abd AlRhman AlQiam, Purdue University
Shubham Chaudhary, IIIT Delhi
Bo-Rong Chen, Google
Shawn Chen, Carnegie Mellon University
Xiaoqi Chen, Purdue University
Dipsy Desai, University of Southern California
Omkar Desai, Syracuse University
Eric Ding, Cornell University
Wenlong Ding, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Kaihui Gao, Zhongguancun Laboratory
Rajrup Ghosh, University of Southern California
Ushasi Ghosh, University of California, San Diego
Haotian Gong, University of Michigan
Fei Gui, Tsinghua University
Qi Guo, Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Yuze He, Carnegie Mellon University
Yibo Huang, University of Michigan
Minhao Jin, Princeton University
Ajay Joshi, Snowflake
Sreevatsank Kadaveru, University of California, San Diego
Anna Karanika, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Ashish Kashinath, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jihye Kim, University of the Bundeswehr Munich
Mariam Kiran, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Benjamin Klenk, NVIDIA
Atsutse Kludze, Princeton University
Umakant Kulkarni, Purdue University
Fadhil Kurnia, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Tingfeng Lan, University of Virginia
Chenning Li, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Han-Ting Liang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Xudong Liao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Sen Lin, Northwestern University
Gaosheng Liu, University of Trento
Wei Liu, Tsinghua University
Wei Liu, SCITIX AI
Jiaqi Lou, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chris Misa, University of Oregon
Adithya Abraham Philip, Carnegie Mellon University
Jianxing Qin, Duke University
Ziyue Qiu, Carnegie Mellon University
Amit Samanta, University of Utah
Alexis Schlomer, Databricks
Vishwanath Seshagiri, Meta
Salvatore Signorello, Nova University Lisbon
Sudheesh Singanamalla, Apple
Rute C Sofia, fortiss GmbH
Jinhui Song, Google
Cesar A. Stuardo, Bytedance
Gerry Wan, Google
Yun Wang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Zirui Wang, University of Virginia
Zhenguo Wu, Columbia University
Sheng Yao, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Nofel Yaseen, Meta
Yucheng Yin, Conviva Inc
Tony Zhang, Databricks
Xiao Zhang, UT Austin
Yunmo Zhang, City University of Hong Kong
Kaiyang Zhao, Carnegie Mellon University
Ann Zhou, Princeton University
Zeying Zhu, University of Maryland
Annus Zulfiqar, University of Michigan
Steering Committee
Mahesh Balakrishnan, Meta
Sujata Banerjee, Microsoft Research
Casey Henderson-Ross, USENIX Association
Jon Howell, VMware Research
Jay Lorch, Microsoft Research
James Mickens, Harvard University
Amar Phanishayee, NVIDIA
George Porter, University of California, San Diego
Keith Winstein, Stanford University
Minlan Yu, Harvard University
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