Control Systems Courses

USENIX

Monarch: A Fuzzing Framework for Distributed File Systems

Innovative fuzzing framework for distributed file systems, addressing complexity and scalability challenges through multi-node architecture, fault injection, and semantic checking.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Designing for User Privacy: Integrating Differential Privacy into Ad Measurement Systems - PEPR '24

Explore innovative approaches to integrate differential privacy into ad measurement systems, balancing user privacy with effective campaign analysis across multiple platforms.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Privacy Design Patterns for AI Systems - Threats and Protections

Expert panel explores privacy design patterns for AI systems, discussing threats, protections, and strategies to enhance privacy in AI/ML practices, with a focus on legal obligations and technical risks.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Conspirator - SmartNIC-Aided Control Plane for Distributed ML Workloads

Innovative control plane design using SmartNICs to optimize distributed ML workloads, reducing bottlenecks and improving resource utilization for enhanced performance and efficiency.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Scalable and Effective Page-table and TLB Management on NUMA Systems

Innovative approach to page-table management in NUMA systems, enhancing performance through on-demand replication and reduced TLB shootdowns, benefiting highly threaded applications.

• YouTube
• 17 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

ETC: An Elastic Transmission Control Using End-to-End Available Bandwidth Perception

Innovative transport protocol ETC uses pulling rate as congestion signal, outperforming existing protocols in throughput, latency, convergence speed, and fairness for improved network performance.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

WingFuzz: Implementing Continuous Fuzzing for Database Management Systems

Continuous fuzzing technique for enterprise-level DBMSs, addressing challenges in SQL grammar, codebase evolution, and anomaly analysis. Discovered 236 bugs across 12 major DBMSs.

• YouTube
• 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

RL-Watchdog: A Fast and Predictable SSD Liveness Watchdog on Storage Systems

Innovative SSD failure detection system using reinforcement learning, minimizing data loss through quick and precise liveness examination and immediate failure notification.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Automatically Reasoning About How Systems Code Uses the CPU Cache

Technique for automatic analysis of CPU cache usage in systems code. Enables developers to identify performance issues and security vulnerabilities without extensive benchmarking.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Empowered User Control: Learnings from Building Event Level Deletion

Explore Meta's new privacy initiative enabling users to delete ad interaction history, impacting data infrastructure and feature representation in Facebook's ad ranking system.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

USENIX

Lessons Learned Deploying the Global Privacy Control to Millions of Customers

Insights on implementing Global Privacy Control at scale, covering standard overview, deployment challenges, and key learnings from Amazon's experience with millions of users.

• YouTube
• 11 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

All About AI

Claude Prompt Caching: A Potential Alternative to RAG for AI Systems

Explore Claude's prompt caching as a potential RAG alternative, examining its functionality and effectiveness through practical examples and comparisons.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

PyCon US

Open Source Industrial Control: Turning 2,800 Tons of Metal with Python and Flask

Discover how Python and Flask revolutionize hydropower generator maintenance, enhancing safety and efficiency in turning massive rotors with precision for the Bureau of Reclamation's operations.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Julia Programming Language

Modeling and Simulation of Sampled-Data Systems

Explore modeling and simulation of sampled-data systems, including discrete-time partitions, clocks, and interactions between continuous and discrete components using ModelingToolkit in Julia.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Julia Programming Language

Robust Calibration of Industrial HVAC and Battery Systems

Explore advanced techniques for robust calibration of industrial HVAC and battery systems using ModelingToolkit.jl, focusing on overcoming challenges in data integration and parameter identification.

• YouTube
• 23 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video