Announcement and Call for Posters: 13th Greater Chicago Area Systems Research Workshop (GCASR 2026)

Poster Abstract Deadline: Friday, April 10th (Actual Event Date is May 11, 2026)

The GCASR Workshop, now in its 13th iteration, is a premier venue that promotes awareness, collaboration, and synergy among academic and industry systems researchers in Chicagoland and the greater Midwest region. Its participants span a variety of systems sub-disciplines—including (but not limited to) operating systems, distributed and decentralized computing, machine learning systems, high performance computing, computer architecture, networks, databases, programming languages and compilers, quantum computing, and security.

GCASR 2026 will be held on Monday, May 11th on the campus of Northwestern University, located just north of Chicago in Evanston, IL (about 30–45 minutes from downtown via subway). Participation is open to all.

We are excited to announce our confirmed speaker lineup so far:

· Mohammed Abuhamad (Loyola University Chicago)

· Andrew Chien (University of Chicago)

· Nicola Ferrier (Argonne National Laboratory)

· Matt Godbolt (Hudson River Trading)

· Izzy Grosof (Northwestern University)

· Oliver Michel (Illinois Institute of Technology)

· Austin Mordahl (University of Illinois Chicago)

· Andy Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University)

· Kexin Pei (University of Chicago)

· Jindi Wu (DePaul University)

The workshop will consist of a keynote, invited talks, and a robust poster session highlighting systems research across Chicagoland and the greater Midwest.

Faculty, researchers, postdocs, students, industry professionals, and others with an interest in the workshop topics are invited to submit a poster. We welcome posters covering theoretical and experimental work in computing systems—including benchmarking, theoretical results, applications, software design, and algorithm/protocol design.

Important Dates

· Friday, April 10th, 2026 — Abstract Deadline

· Friday, April 17th, 2026 — Poster Notification

· Monday, May 11, 2026 — Workshop (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)



Submission Requirements

· Please submit an abstract of no more than 250 words.

· Posters may cover already-published work.

· Please submit your poster abstract at: https://forms.gle/UtroSXguurTJGrvZ9.



Topics of Interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

· Operating Systems

· Computer Architecture

· Networking

· Distributed Systems

· Grids/Clouds/Supercomputing (including HPC/MTC/HTC)

· Edge Computing

· Internet-of-Things

· Energy Efficient Computing

· Reconfigurable, Real-time, Cyber-Physical, and Embedded Systems

· Programming Languages, Runtime Systems, and Compilers

· File and Storage Systems

· Parallelism and Multi/Many-core Systems

· Secure and Reliable Systems

· Databases

· Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

· Quantum Computing

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