MLSys 2026 Best Paper Award To appear LEANN: A Low-Storage Vector Index for Personal Devices Yichuan Wang, Zhifei Li, Shu Liu, Yongji Wu, Ziming Mao, Yilong Zhao, Xiao Yan, Zhiying Xu, Yang Zhou, Ion Stoica, Sewon Min, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez Paper
NSDI 2026 In submission SkyNomad: Cost-Effective Multi-Region Scheduling for Deadline-Sensitive Workloads on Spot Instances Zhifei Li*, Tian Xia*, and others, Ion Stoica Paper
ICML 2026 To appear FrontierCS: Evolving Challenges for Evolving Intelligence Qiuyang Mang*, Wenhao Chai*, Zhifei Li*, Huanzhi Mao*, and others, Ion Stoica, Jingbo Shang, Zhuang Liu, Alvin Cheung Paper
arXiv Preprint Barbarians at the Gate: How AI is Upending Systems Research Audrey Cheng*, Shu Liu*, Melissa Pan*, Zhifei Li, Bowen Wang, Alex Krentsel, Tian Xia, Mert Cemri, Jongseok Park, Shuo Yang, Jeff Chen, Aditya Desai, Jiarong Xing, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica Paper