SIGCOMM 2026 SEA

ACM SIGCOMM 2026 Regional Pod @Manila, Philippines

Venue: UP Meralco Innovation Hall (Room 120), Electrical and Electronics Engineering Institute, P. Velasquez St.,
University of the Philippines Diliman Campus, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines

Local Time Zone: UTC+8

21 August 2026
8:00am	Registration and Introductions
8:30am - 10:00am	Recorded SIGCOMM presentations SAGE: A Real-Time AI System for Reducing Latency in NextG Cellular Networks Aoyu Gong, Raphael Cannatà, Arman Maghsoudnia, Néstor Lomba Lomba (EPFL), Dan Mihai Dumitriu (Pavonis LLC), Haitham Hassanieh (EPFL) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829112 [Video] Near-optimal Online Traffic Engineering Arvin Ghavidel (University of Southern California), Pooria Namyar (Microsoft Research), Nikolai Matni (University of Pennsylvania), Walter Willinger (Northwestern University), Ramesh Govindan (University of Southern California) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829123 [Video] Pegasus: A Data Center Network for Bare-Metal AI Cloud Xianneng Zou (Tsinghua), Yadong Liu (Tencent), Yiran Zhang (Unaffiliated), Jian Zhao, Zhaoxun Zhou (Tencent), Qing Wang (Nanjing University), Xingyi Li, Liang Wang (Tencent), Xingda Wei (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Xiaojie Huang, Zhaohe Chen, Yinben Xia (Tencent), Yuxi Wang (Unaffiliated), Kai Ren, Lizhou Gao, Jiajun Liang, Jian Wang, Chunxu Zhao, Weifeng Zhang, Lu Shi, Xin Li, Jiewei Yang, Hao Lu, Yunpeng Guan, Dongbo Gu, Chao Pei, Xiang Li, Zekun He (Tencent), Yong Jiang (Tsinghua), Yachen Wang (Tencent) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829186 [Video] RANPilot: Making AI Functionalities Robust to Dynamic O-RAN Reconfigurations Shiming Yu, Leming Shen, Jianing Zhang, Xin Li, Xianjin Xia, Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829146 [Video] Tuning into the Web: A Low-Cost Access Solution for Developing Countries Ayush Pandey, Rohail Asim (New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD)), Jean Louis K. E. Fendji (University of Ngaoundere), Talal Rahwan (New York University Abu Dhabi), Matteo Varvello (Nokia Bell Labs), Yasir Zaki (New York University Abu Dhabi) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829209 [Video]
10:00am - 11:00am	Live Q&A Session with authors (together with other Southeast Asia pods) 1. SAGE: A Real-Time AI System for Reducing Latency in NextG Cellular Networks 2. Near-optimal Online Traffic Engineering 3. Pegasus: A Data Center Network for Bare-Metal AI Cloud 4. RANPilot: Making AI Functionalities Robust to Dynamic O-RAN Reconfigurations 5. Tuning into the Web: A Low-Cost Access Solution for Developing Countries *This is subjected to change
11:00am - 11:15am	Coffee Break
11:15am - 12:00pm	Graduate research presentations RMAB-Inspired Mobility-Aware DTN Routing for Demand-Responsive Rural Paratransits Jim Gregorie Ilejay, MS EE Student, UP EEE Institute Toward a Verifiable and Trustworthy Rice Supply Chain Ecosystem: A PKI-Authenticated RFID–Blockchain Architecture for Rural Agricultural Traceability Ann Janeth Garcia, PhD EEE Student, UP EEE Institute
12:00pm - 1:00pm	Lunch
1:00pm - 2:00pm	Recorded SIGCOMM presentations and local discussion Synchronizing with the Scheduler: Dual-Loop Congestion Control for 5G Uplink on Commodity Devices Qiang Wu, Yuxin Liu, Tianyang Zhang (University at Buffalo SUNY), Haoran Wan, Kyle Jamieson (Princeton University), Yaxiong Xie (University at Buffalo SUNY) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829199 [Video] HERMES: Repurposing User-Driven Speed Tests to Monitor the Internet Loqman Salamatian (Columbia University), Kevin Vermeulen (Ecole Polytechnique), David Choffnes (Northeastern University), Ethan Katz-Bassett (Columbia University), Phillipa Gill (Google) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829129 [Video] Don't Stall Me Now: Hiding Memory Latency in eBPF Farbod Shahinfar, Marco Molè (Politecnico di Milano), Aurojit Panda (NYU), Gianni Antichi (Politecnico di Milano & Queen Mary University of London) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829175 [Video] DeepSFU: Scalable Deepfake Detection for Video Conferencing Tuan Tran, Shirin Ebadi, S. M. H. Hosseini, Woongsub Shin, Evan Ram, Youngwook Son (University of Colorado Boulder), Seyeon Kim (Korea University), Nam Bui (University of Colorado Denver), Kyunghan Lee (Seoul National University), Eric Keller, Sangtae Ha (University of Colorado Boulder) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829184 [Video] Connecting 100K+ GPUs: Building the Communication Stack for Large-Scale LLM Training Hongyi Zeng, Min Si, Pavan Balaji, Yongzhou Chen, Ching-Hsiang Chu, Adithya Gangidi, Prashanth Kannan, Bingzhe Liu, Saif Hasan, Dong He, Deep Shah, Ashmitha Jeevaraj Shetty, Gregory R Steinbrecher, Srikanth Sundaresan, Yulun Wang, Yexin Wu, Mingran Yang, Kenny Yu, Minlan Yu (Harvard University), Cen Zhao, Shengbao Zheng, Wesley Bland, Denis Boyda, Suman Gumudavelli, Subodh Iyengar, Daniel Johnson, Cristian Lumezanu, Kai Luo, Rui Miao, Zhe Qu, Venkatraghavan Ramesh, et al. (Meta) https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3789240.3829152 [Video]
2:00pm - 2:30pm	Graduate research presentations Beyond the Switch: Engineering the Next Generation of Internet Exchange Points John Robert Mendoza, PhD EEE Candidate, UP EEE Institute
2:30pm onwards	Coffee Break and Socials