USENIX Courses

Erays - Reverse Engineering Ethereum's Opaque Smart Contracts

Reverse engineering tool for Ethereum smart contracts, providing insights into code complexity, reuse, and linking contracts to public source code. Demonstrates applications in high-value wallets, arbitrage bots, and popular games.

• YouTube
• 21 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible

Humorous critique of tech industry's approach to security, highlighting flaws in machine learning, AI, and IoT while advocating for ethical computing and thoughtful development.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

More Than Capacity - Performance-Oriented Evolution of Pangu in Alibaba

Evolution of Alibaba's Pangu storage system: embracing SSD and RDMA technologies, reducing I/O latency, and transitioning to performance-oriented storage with innovative designs for improved efficiency and reliability.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Practical Design Considerations for Wide Locally Recoverable Codes - LRCs

Explores wide Locally Recoverable Codes for efficient data storage, introducing novel designs like Uniform Cauchy LRCs that improve reliability and performance in large-scale storage clusters.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Hunting for Risky Dependencies in the World of Microservices

Discover how to identify and mitigate hidden vulnerabilities in microservice architectures using OpenTelemetry, with real-world examples from Google Maps' high-risk dependencies.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Lamphone - Passive Sound Recovery from a Desk Lamp's Light Bulb Vibrations

Explore Lamphone, a novel optical side-channel attack that recovers sound from desk lamp vibrations, enabling passive eavesdropping from a distance with high-quality results.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Are Your Sensitive Attributes Private? Novel Model Inversion Attribute Inference Attacks on Classification Models

Novel model inversion attacks on classification models reveal vulnerabilities in ML technologies, potentially leaking sensitive training data. Explores confidence score-based and label-only attacks, demonstrating disparate vulnerability across different…

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Who Are You - I Really Wanna Know - Detecting Audio DeepFakes Through Vocal Tract Reconstruction

Explore innovative audio deepfake detection using vocal tract reconstruction. Learn how fluid dynamics and articulatory phonetics can identify impossible anatomical arrangements in synthesized speech.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Immortal Threads - Multithreaded Event-driven Intermittent Computing on Ultra-Low-Power Microcontrollers

Explore a novel programming model for intermittent computing on ultra-low-power microcontrollers, enabling efficient multithreaded processing and event handling with minimal progress loss during power failures.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

SparTA - Deep-Learning Model Sparsity via Tensor-with-Sparsity-Attribute

Explores deep learning model sparsity via Tensor-with-Sparsity-Attribute, enabling efficient sparse models across various patterns and optimization techniques, delivering significant speedups compared to state-of-the-art solutions.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Carbink - Fault-Tolerant Far Memory

Fault-tolerant far memory system using erasure-coding and remote memory compaction for efficient datacenter applications, offering improved latency and performance over existing solutions.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CAP-VMs - Capability-Based Isolation and Sharing in the Cloud

Explore capability-based isolation and efficient data sharing in cloud environments using cVMs, a novel VM-like abstraction leveraging memory capabilities for enhanced security and performance.

• YouTube
• 14 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Orca - A Distributed Serving System for Transformer-Based Generative Models

Explore Orca, a distributed serving system for transformer-based generative models, featuring iteration-level scheduling and selective batching to enhance performance and efficiency in large-scale language model inference.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

MemLiner - Lining up Tracing and Application for a Far-Memory-Friendly Runtime

MemLiner: Runtime technique improving far-memory systems by aligning application and garbage collection memory accesses, reducing local-memory working set and enhancing remote-memory prefetching for better performance.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Owl - Scale and Flexibility in Distribution of Hot Content

Explore Owl, Meta's high-scale content distribution system combining centralized control with peer-to-peer data transfer, offering improved speed and flexibility over traditional methods.

• YouTube
• 16 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk