Baris Kasikci
(~Buh-rish) How to pronounce my name?I am interested in making computer systems more reliable, secure, and efficient
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Finding NEMO: Nimble and Expressive Memory Observability. Shihang Li, Matthew Giordano, Tushar Garg, Rohan Kadekodi, Daniel S. Berger, Baris Kasikci, Thomas Anderson, Simon Peter. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Jul 2026
Diagnosing Performance Issues in Application-Defined Resources. Yigong Hu, You-Liang Huang, Haodong Zheng, Yicheng Liu, Dedong Xie, Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Jul 2026
Ekka: Automated Diagnosis of Silent Errors in LLM Inference. Yile Gu, Zhen Zhang, Shaowei Zhu, Xinwei Fu, Jun Wu, Yida Wang, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). Jul 2026
Hayroll: A Modular Wrapper for Translating C Macros and Conditional Compilation to Rust. Haoran Peng, Baris Kasikci, Gilbert Bernstein, Michael D. Ernst. Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Jun 2026
Accelerating Large-Scale Reasoning Model Inference with Sparse Self-Speculative Decoding. Yilong Zhao, Jiaming Tang, Kan Zhu, Zihao Ye, Chi-Chih Chang, Chaofan Lin, Jongseok Park, Guangxuan Xiao, Mohamed S. Abdelfattah, Mingyu Gao, Baris Kasikci, Song Han, Ion Stoica. Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys). May 2026
RagInfer: Efficient Retrieval-Augmented Generation Inference with Lookahead Retrieval. Chien-Yu Lin, Keisuke Kamahori, Yiyu Liu, Xiaoxiang Shi, Madhav Kashyap, Yile Gu, Rulin Shao, Zihao Ye, Kan Zhu, Rohan Kadekodi, Stephanie Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze, Baris Kasikci. Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys). May 2026
DynaFlow: Transparent and Flexible Intra-Device Parallelism via Programmable Operator Scheduling. Yi Pan, Yile Gu, Jinbin Luo, Yibo Wu, Ziren Wang, Hongtao Zhang, Ziyi Xu, Shengkai Lin, Baris Kasikci, Stephanie Wang. Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys). May 2026
Unleashing Scalable Context Parallelism for Foundation Models Pre-Training via FCP. Yilong Zhao, Xiaonan Nie, Kan Zhu, Shuang Ma, Zhichao Lai, Hongxiang Hao, Yang Zhou, Baris Kasikci, Ion Stoica. Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys). May 2026
PASS: A Power Adaptive Storage Server. Dedong Xie, Theano Stavrinos, Jonggyu Park, Simon Peter, Baris Kasikci, Thomas E. Anderson. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys). Apr 2026
Tactic: Adaptive Sparse Attention with Clustering and Distribution Fitting for Long-Context LLMs. Kan Zhu, Tian Tang, Qinyu Xu, Yile Gu, Zhichen Zeng, Rohan Kadekodi, Liangyu Zhao, Ang Li, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Apr 2026
BlendServe: Optimizing Offline Inference with Resource-Aware Batching. Yilong Zhao, Shuo Yang, Kan Zhu, Lianmin Zheng, Baris Kasikci, Yifan Qiao, Yang Zhou, Jiarong Xing, Ion Stoica. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Mar 2026
Snap & Replay: A New Way to Analyze uarch-Scale Performance Bottlenecks for ML Accelerators. Ioannis Zarkadas, Amanda Tomlinson, Asaf Cidon, Baris Kasikci, Ofir Weisse. ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing ([SoCC]). Nov 2025
LiteASR: Efficient Automatic Speech Recognition with Low-Rank Approximation. Keisuke Kamahori, Jungo Kasai, Noriyuki Kojima, Baris Kasikci. Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). Nov 2025
Mitigating Application Resource Overload with Targeted Task Cancellation. Yigong Hu, Zeyin Zhang, Yicheng Liu, Yile Gu, Shuangyu Lei, Baris Kasikci, Peng Huang. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Oct 2025
NanoFlow: Towards Optimal Large Language Model Serving Throughput. Kan Zhu, Yufei Gao, Yilong Zhao, Liangyu Zhao, Gefei Zuo, Yile Gu, Dedong Xie, Tian Tang, Qinyu Xu, Zihao Ye, Keisuke Kamahori, Chien-Yu Lin, Ziren Wang, Stephanie Wang, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Jul 2025
FlashInfer: Efficient and Customizable Attention Engine for LLM Inference Serving. Zihao Ye, Lequn Chen, Ruihang Lai, Wuwei Lin, Yineng Zhang, Stephanie Wang, Tianqi Chen, Baris Kasikci, Vinod Grover, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Luis Ceze. Annual Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys). Best Paper Award May 2025. 
Fiddler: CPU-GPU Orchestration for Fast Inference of Mixture-of-Experts Models. Keisuke Kamahori, Tian Tang, Yile Gu, Kan Zhu, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR). Apr 2025
Scalable and Accurate Application-Level Crash-Consistency Testing via Representative Testing. Yile Gu, Ian Neal, Jiexiao Xu, Shaun Christopher Lee, Ayman Said, Musa Haydar, Jacob Van Geffen, Rohan Kadekodi, Andrew Quinn, Baris Kasikci. ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA). Apr 2025
Palermo: Improving the Performance of Oblivious Memory using Protocol-Hardware Co-Design. Haojie Ye, Yuchen Xia, Yuhan Chen, Kuan-Yu Chen, Yichao Yuan, Shuwen Deng, Baris Kasikci, Trevor Mudge, Nishil Talati. International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). Mar 2025
From Optimal to Practical: Efficient Micro-op Cache Replacement Policies for Data Center Applications. Kan Zhu, Yilong Zhao, Yufei Gao, Peter Braun, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci, Shuwen Deng. International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA). Mar 2025
GadgetMeter: Quantitatively and Accurately Gauging the Exploitability of Speculative Gadgets. Qi Ling, Yujun Liang, Yi Ren, Baris Kasikci, Shuwen Deng. Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS). Feb 2025
Beehive: A Flexible Network Stack for Direct-Attached Accelerators. Katie Lim, Matthew Giordano, Theano Stavrinos, Jacob Nelson, Irene Zhang, Baris Kasikci, Thomas Anderson. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Nov 2024
Understanding the Host Network. Midhul Vuppalapati, Saksham Agarwal, Henry Schuh, Baris Kasikci, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Rachit Agarwal. SIGCOMM (SIGCOMM). Best Student Paper Award. Aug 2024.
Quest: Query-Aware Sparsity for Efficient Long-Context LLM Inference. Jiaming Tang, Yilong Zhao, Kan Zhu, Guangxuan Xiao, Baris Kasikci, Song Han. International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). July 2024
UDP: Utility-Driven Fetch Directed Instruction Prefetching. Surim Oh, Mingsheng Xu, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Jun 2024
ZipChannel: Cache Side-Channel Vulnerabilities in Compression Algorithms. Marina Minkin, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). June 2024
Atom: Low-bit Quantization for Efficient and Accurate LLM Serving. Kan Zhu, Zihao Ye, Lequn Chen, Size Zheng, Luis Ceze, Arvind Krishnamurthy, Tianqi Chen, Baris Kasikci. Conference on Machine Learning and Systems (MLSys). May 2024
Proactive Runtime Detection of Aging-Related Silent Data Corruptions: A Bottom-Up Approach. Jiacheng Ma, Majd Ganaiem, Madeline Burbage, Theo Gregersen, Rachel McAmis, Freddy Gabbay, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Apr 2024
Limoncello: Prefetchers for Scale. Akanksha Jain, Hannah Lin, Carlos Villavieja, Baris Kasikci, Chris Kennelly, Milad Hashemi, Parthasarathy Ranganathan. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Apr 2024
RPG^2: Robust Profile-Guided Runtime Prefetch Generation. Yuxuan Zhang, Nathan Sobotka, Soyoon Park, Saba Jamilan, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Baris Kasikci, Gilles Pokam, Heiner Litz, Joseph Devietti. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Apr 2024
Siloz: Leveraging DRAM Subarray Groups to Prevent Inter-VM Rowhammer. Kevin Loughlin, Jonah Rosenblum, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Dimitrios Skarlatos, Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Oct 2023
CrossTalk: Making Low-Latency Fault Tolerance Cheap by Exploiting Redundant Networks. Andrew Loveless, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Lisa Erickson, Ronald Dreslinski, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). Sep 2023
PCspooF: Compromising the Safety of Time-Triggered Ethernet. Andrew Loveless, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Ronald Dreslinski, Baris Kasikci. IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P). May 2023
Vidi: Record Replay for Reconfigurable Hardware. Gefei Zuo, Jiacheng Ma, Andrew Quinn, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Mar 2023
Whisper: Profile-Guided Branch Misprediction Elimination for Data Center Applications. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Muhammed Ugur, Krishnendra Nathella, Dam Sunwoo, Heiner Litz, Daniel A Jiménez, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Best Paper Award Oct 2022.
OCOLOS: Online COde Layout OptimizationS. Yuxuan Zhang, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Gilles Pokam, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz, Joseph Devietti. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). IEEE Micro Top Pick. Oct 2022.
Transcendent: Debugging the OmniTable Way. Andrew Quinn, Michael Cafarella, Jason Flinn, Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Jul 2022
Sift: Using Refinement-guided Automation to Verify Complex Distributed Systems. Haojun Ma, Hammad Ahmad, Aman Goel, Eli Goldweber, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Manos Kapritsos, Baris Kasikci. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC). Jul 2022
MOESI-prime: Preventing Coherence-Induced Hammering in Commodity Workloads. Kevin Loughlin, Stefan Saroiu, Alec Wolman, Yatin A. Manerkar, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Jun 2022
Thermometer: Profile-Guided BTB Replacement for Data Center Applications. Shixin Song, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Sara Mahdizadeh Shahri, Akshitha Sriraman, Niranjan K Soundararajan, Sreenivas Subramoney, Daniel A Jiménez, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Jun 2022
APT-GET: Profile-Guided Timely Software Prefetching. Saba Jamilan, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Grant Ayers, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz. European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys). Apr 2022
Debugging in the Brave New World of Reconfigurable Hardware. Jiacheng Ma, Gefei Zuo, Kevin Loughlin, Andrew Quinn, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Feb 2022
Twig: Profile-Guided BTB Prefetching for Data Center Applications. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Nathan Brown, Akshitha Sriraman, Niranjan Soundararajan, Rakesh Kumar, Joseph Devietti, Sreenivas Subramoney, Gilles Pokam, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Oct 2021
PDede: Partitioned, Deduplicated, Delta Branch Target Buffer. Niranjan Soundararajan, Peter Braun, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Baris Kasikci, Heiner Litz, Sreenivas Subramoney. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Oct 2021
DOLMA: Securing Speculation with the Principle of Transient Non-Observability. Kevin Loughlin, Ian Neal, Jiacheng Ma, Elisa Tsai, Ofir Weisse, Satish Narayanasamy, Baris Kasikci. USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security). Aug 2021
DMon: Efficient Detection and Correction of Data Locality Problems using Selective Profiling. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Ian Neal, Gilles Pokam, Barzan Mozafari, Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Jul 2021
Reproducing Production Failures with Execution Reconstruction. Gefei Zuo, Jiacheng Ma, Andrew Quinn, Pramod Bhatotia, Pedro Fonseca, Baris Kasikci. Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Jun 2021
Ripple: Profile-Guided Instruction Cache Replacement for Data Center Applications. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Dexin Zhang, Akshitha Sriraman, Joseph Devietti, Gilles Pokam, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA). Jun 2021
IGOR: Accelerating Byzantine Fault Tolerance for Real-Time Systems with Eager Execution. Andrew Loveless, Ron Dreslinski, Baris Kasikci, Linh Phan. Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). May 2021
HIPPOCRATES: Healing Persistent Memory Bugs Without Doing Any Harm. Ian Neal, Andrew Quinn, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Apr 2021
Rethinking File Mapping Structures for Persistent Memory. Ian Neal, Gefei Zuo, Eric Shiple, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Youngjin Kwon, Simon Peter, Baris Kasikci. USENIX Conference on File and Storage Technologies (FAST). Feb 2021
Morpheus II: A RISC-V Security Extension for Protecting Vulnerable Software and Hardware. Austin Harris, Tarunesh Verma, Shijia Wei, Lauren Biernacki, Alex Kisil, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Valeria Bertacco, Baris Kasikci, Mohit Tiwari, Todd Austin. IEEE Hot Chips Symposium ([Hot Chips]). 2021
Holistic Defenses Against Microarchitectural Attacks. Baris Kasikci, Kevin Loughlin. SPIE Disruptive Technologies in Information Sciences V ([SPIE]). 2021
Agamotto: How Persistent is your Persistent Memory Application?. Ian Neal, Ben Reeves, Ben Stoler, Andrew Quinn, Youngjin Kwon, Simon Peter, Baris Kasikci. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). IEEE Micro Top Pick Honorable Mention. Nov 2020.
I-SPY: Context-Driven Conditional Instruction Prefetching with Coalescing. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Akshitha Sriraman, Joseph Devietti, Gilles Pokam, Heiner Litz, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). Oct 2020
A Hypervisor for Shared-Memory FPGA Platforms. Jiacheng Ma, Gefei Zuo, Kevin Loughlin, Xiaohe Cheng, Yanqiang Liu, Abel Mulugeta Eneyew, Zhengwei Qi, Baris Kasikci. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Mar 2020
CPU Microarchitectural Performance Characterization of Cloud Video Transcoding. Yuhan Chen, Jingyuan Zhu, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Baris Kasikci. IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization ([IISWC]). 2020
NDA: Preventing Speculative Execution Attacks at Their Source. Ofir Weisse, Ian Neal, Kevin Loughlin, Thomas Wenisch, Baris Kasikci. International Symposium on Microarchitecture (MICRO). IEEE Micro Top Pick Honorable Mention. Oct 2019.
I4: Incremental Inference of Inductive Invariants for Verification of Distributed Protocols. Haojun Ma, Aman Goel, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Manos Kapritsos, Baris Kasikci, Karem Sakallah. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Oct 2019
Huron: Hybrid False Sharing Detection and Repair [code]. Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Yifan Zhao, Gilles Pokam, Barzan Mozafari, Baris Kasikci. Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI). Jun 2019
Morpheus: A Vulnerability-Tolerant Secure Architecture Based on Ensembles of Moving Target Defenses with Churn [talk]. Mark Gallagher, Lauren Biernacki, Shibo Chen, Zelalem Birhanu Aweke, Salessawi Ferede Yitbarek, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Austin Harris, Zhixing Xu, Baris Kasikci, Valeria Bertacco, Sharad Malik, Mohit Tiwari, Todd Austin. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). April 2019
REPT: Reverse Debugging of Failures in Deployed Software. Weidong Cui, Xinyang Ge, Baris Kasikci, Ben Niu, Upamanyu Sharma, Ruoyu Wang, Insu Yun. Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI). Best Paper Award Oct 2018.
Foreshadow: Extracting the Keys to the Intel SGX Kingdom with Transient Out-of-Order Execution. Jo Van Bulck, Marina Minkin, Ofir Weisse, Daniel Genkin, Baris Kasikci, Frank Piessens, Mark Silberstein, Thomas F. Wenisch, Yuval Yarom, Raoul Strackx. USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security). IEEE Micro Top Pick. Aug 2018.
Cntr: Lightweight OS Containers. Jörg Thalheim, Pramod Bhatotia, Pedro Fonseca, Baris Kasikci. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC). Jun 2018
Lazy Diagnosis of In-Production Concurrency Bugs. Baris Kasikci, Weidong Cui, Xinyang Ge, Ben Niu. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Oct 2017
Failure Sketching: A Technique for Automated Root Cause Diagnosis of In-Production Failures [talk,slides]. Baris Kasikci, Benjamin Schubert, Cristiano Pereira, Gilles Pokam, George Candea. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Oct 2015
Efficient Tracing of Cold Code Via Bias-Free Sampling [talk,slides]. Baris Kasikci, Thomas Ball, George Candea, John Erickson, Madanlal Musuvathi. USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX ATC). Jun 2014
RaceMob: Crowdsourced Data Race Detection [talk,slides]. Baris Kasikci, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea. Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Nov 2013
Data Races vs. Data Race Bugs: Telling the Difference with Portend [slides]. Baris Kasikci, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS). Mar 2012
One Profile Fits All: Profile-Guided Linux Kernel Optimizations for Data Center Applications. Muhammed Ugur, Cheng Jiang, Alex Erf, Tanvir Ahmed Khan, Baris Kasikci. ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review ([OSR]). 2023
Software-Driven Security Attacks: From Vulnerability Sources to Durable Hardware Defenses. Lauren Biernacki, Mark Gallagher, Zhixing Xu, Misiker Tadesse Aga, Austin Harris, Shijia Wei, Mohit Tiwari, Baris Kasikci, Sharad Malik, Todd Austin. ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems ([JETC]). 2021
Breaking Virtual Memory Protection and the SGX Ecosystem with Foreshadow. Jo Van Bulck, Marina Minkin, Ofir Weisse, Daniel Genkin, Baris Kasikci, Frank Piessens, Mark Silberstein, Thomas F. Wenisch, Yuval Yarom, Raoul Strackx. IEEE Micro Top Picks ([IEEE Micro]). 2019
Automated Classification of Data Races for Both Strong and Weak Memory Models. Baris Kasikci, Cristian Zamfir, George Candea. ACM Transactions of Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS). 2015