SOSP Professional Travel Scholarship: Reflections by Recipient Artur Baruchi

Artur Baruchi
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My participation in SOSP, enabled by the Travel Scholarship program, was full of remarkable experiences. The time outside of the conference sessions was valuable and I was able to meet many new people and make friends, so even this aspect of the experience was a big win, and worth it. As a Ph.D. student at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil, participating in SOSP was particularly beneficial to me. Here in Brazil, unfortunately, we don’t have systems conferences (at least of this size) happening regularly. And when I have previously participated in a scientific event of similar size, time constraints did not allow me to attend all the presentations. Thus, I can say that SOSP was my first participation in a conference of this magnitude. As a future researcher, and current student at the University of Sao Paulo, the SOSP participation benefited me in several ways, but the most important was the contact with others researchers and professors that already have an established research career. Talking with them was very helpful. Another significant benefit was being able to see the huge participation of companies supporting the conference and offering research positions. Beyond the prospects of future research and the student aspects, the conference was, somehow, inspiring. During the dinner, that was offered by the conference, I had the opportunity to talk with other students. Many are in the same situation that I am facing in my own research, while others have already passed through the same problems that I am facing. These student colleagues shared many tips and advice. Part of the agreement in receiving this scholarship was to share my experiences from SOSP with both my colleagues at HP Sao Paulo and at my university. When I returned to Brazil, I prepared a presentation for colleagues at the University of Sao Paulo. My presentation was roughly an hour and a half. Many in the audience knew of SOSP, but few of them had had the opportunity to attend. Given that they already are familiar with the conference, I was able to talk about specific works that were relevant and of interest to them. Also, I talked about my conversations with other students, researchers, and professors about ideas for collaboration on papers and about new investments in equipment. Creating and preparing a presentation for my colleagues at HP Sao Paulo was a much greater challenge. Since the focus of my work at HP is not systems research, I wanted a presentation that would illustrate the benefits of academic research for working professional engineers. The majority of people in the audience had little contact with academia and I needed, at the very beginning of the presentation, to talk about academic conferences, why they are important, how hard is to have an accepted paper in conferences like SOSP, etc. After that, I talked about past papers of the SOSP to show that some of the technologies that they use were first presented in SOSP and after some years these ideas and systems became part of products. I focused on papers that I believed that were more relevant to the audience and tried to present in a language that was more more objective (without many mathematical formalisms). I’m very glad to the conference organization for this opportunity afforded by the Travel Scholarship program. The conference was an outstanding example of great organization and a great program of very quality papers and works presented. I hope to participate in future SOSP conferences and, maybe, have an accepted paper in the future.
SOSP专业旅游奖学金:获奖者Artur Baruchi的反思
在旅行奖学金项目的支持下,我参加了SOSP,经历了很多不寻常的事情。会议之外的时间是宝贵的,我能够认识很多新朋友,所以即使这方面的经验是一个巨大的胜利,值得的。作为一名巴西圣保罗大学的博士生,参加SOSP对我来说尤其有益。不幸的是,在巴西,我们没有定期召开系统会议(至少是这种规模的会议)。当我以前参加过一个类似规模的科学活动时,时间限制使我不能参加所有的演讲。因此,我可以说,SOSP是我第一次参加如此规模的会议。作为一名未来的研究人员和圣保罗大学的在读学生,参与SOSP让我在几个方面受益,但最重要的是与其他已经建立了研究生涯的研究人员和教授的接触。和他们交谈很有帮助。另一个重要的好处是能够看到支持会议和提供研究职位的公司的大量参与。除了对未来研究和学生方面的展望之外,这次会议在某种程度上是鼓舞人心的。在会议提供的晚宴上,我有机会与其他学生交谈。许多人在我自己的研究中遇到了同样的情况,而其他人已经经历了我所面临的同样的问题。这些学生同事分享了许多技巧和建议。获得这项奖学金的协议的一部分是与我在HP圣保罗和我的大学的同事分享我在SOSP的经验。回到巴西后,我为圣保罗大学的同事准备了一份报告。我的演讲大约一个半小时。许多听众都知道SOSP,但很少有人有机会参加。考虑到他们已经对会议很熟悉,我可以谈谈他们感兴趣的相关具体作品。此外,我还谈到了我与其他学生、研究人员和教授就论文合作的想法和对设备的新投资进行的对话。为我在惠普圣保罗的同事制作和准备演示文稿是一个更大的挑战。由于我在惠普的工作重点不是系统研究,所以我想要一个能够说明学术研究对在职专业工程师的好处的演讲。听众中的大多数人与学术界的接触很少,我需要在演讲的一开始就谈谈学术会议,为什么它们很重要,在SOSP这样的会议上发表一篇论文有多难,等等。在那之后,我谈到了SOSP过去的论文,以表明他们使用的一些技术最初是在SOSP中提出的,几年后,这些想法和系统成为产品的一部分。我把重点放在那些我认为与读者更相关的论文上,并试图用一种更客观的语言来呈现(没有很多数学形式)。我非常感谢会议组织机构提供这次旅行奖学金项目的机会。这次会议是一个出色的组织和一个非常高质量的论文和作品的伟大计划的杰出例子。我希望参加未来的SOSP会议,也许将来会有一篇被接受的论文。
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