IndoSys 2026

About IndoSys

Indian Symposium on Computer Systems

Computer systems research is critically important in the post-Moore era. Today's systems must support diverse big data platforms, address the scalability challenges of deep learning models, and efficiently exploit heterogeneous accelerators, including emerging quantum hardware, deployed across both cloud and edge environments.

The Indian Symposium on Computer Systems (IndoSys) was conceived as a forum to strengthen and grow the computer systems research ecosystem in India. IndoSys 2026 is the 8th edition of the symposium. The series began in 2014, with a brief hiatus during the COVID-19 period. Compared to several other research domains, the number of academic and industrial research labs in India focused on systems is relatively small. IndoSys aims to help address this gap by providing a platform for students, faculty, researchers, and industry practitioners working in (or interested in) computer systems.

The need for systems research has become even more pressing due to the data deluge and the widespread adoption of billion-parameter deep learning models across application domains. IndoSys will serve as a venue where researchers can present preliminary work, receive constructive feedback, and refine their ideas. A key distinguishing feature of systems research (relative to theory-focused work) is rigorous empirical evaluation; careful benchmarking and thorough experimentation are central to producing convincing systems results.

Details on previous editions on IndoSys are here.

Authors are invited to submit research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of computer systems such as Operating Systems, Programming Languages, Computer Networks, Compilers, Distributed Systems, High Performance Computing, Cloud Computing, Mobile Computing, Database, Compilers, Computer Architecture, Software-assisted Networking, Network Security, Blockchain systems, Systems for ML/DL etc. The papers may be submitted in one of the following tracks:

Invited Papers

We invite previously published research works that appeared in reputable conferences/journals in the above areas. (1-page Extended Abstract). Accepted invited papers will present a "gong show" teaser, followed by a poster presentation, enabling broader exposure and facilitating follow-up discussions with experts.

Work-in-progress papers

We invite unpublished manuscripts describing ongoing research on systems problems. (Maximum 4 pages). Accepted WIP papers will be allocated a 15–20 minute talk slot. The goal is to foster in-depth discussion, mentoring and actionable feedback to help authors strengthen ongoing work and publish the full work at leading forums.

Author Manuscript and Submission Guidelines

Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed four (4) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5×11 inch pages (ACM conference style), including figures, tables and 1 page for references. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available for download. See the latest versions here. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee.

Papers submitted to track 2 must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. These can be ongoing work that may not be ready for full submission. Authors may contact the Steering Committee Members and the Program Chairs for further information or clarification. Note that the goal of IndoSys is to provide a platform for feedback, discussion and mentorship on research work and writeup. The submissions will not be indexed/published and will not have a DOI.

How to Submit Papers

• Go to the link: CMT https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/Indosys2026.
• Sign in or create an account. If you don’t have an account, click "Register" to create one with your email.
• Create a submission. Under the "Submissions" menu, you will see a "Create new submission" button. Select the appropriate track (WIP Papers, Invited Papers). Add details for your paper such as title, abstract, authors, affiliation, PDF of paper, etc.
• Fill in the Additonal Questions section. Provide additional details requested in the submission form relevant to each track, such as institution, experience, etc.
• Confirm and submit

Submission Review Process

All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee members and undergo a rigorous review process. Submissions will be judged by at least two PC members on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, potential impact, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. The decision for the submission may be Accept or Reject. Papers that are accepted must be revised as per the reviewers’ suggestions.

A good-quality submission should articulate its motivation, key contributions, limitations of prior work, methodology and initial experimental results if any. Selected papers will be asked to present a short talk and/or a poster. A limited number of travel grants may be available for one author of selected papers.

Use of AI-assisted text

You may use tools such as ChatGPT, Grammarly, or other AI assistants to help improve the submission text quality. We recommend that you use these services only for language/grammar correction. The use of any AI-generated text must be disclosed in the acknowledgments section. The sections of the paper that use AI-generated text shall have a citation to the AI system used to generate the text.

All deadlines are 11:59PM Indian Standard Time (IST, UTC+0530).

• Papers submissions due: June 3, 2026 June 10, 2026
• Author Notification: June 24, 2026
• Symposium: July 20-21, 2026

Program Committee

• Abhilash Jindal (IIT Delhi)
• Abhinandan S Prasad (IIT Palakkad)
• Nitin Auluck (IIT Ropar)
• Padmanabha V Seshadri (IBM Research)
• Priyanka Naik (IBM Research, India)
• Raghavendra Kanakagiri (IIT Tirupati)
• Rajshekar K (IIT Dharwad)
• Sandeep Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur)
• Sathya Peri (IIT Hyderabad)
• Urbi Chatterjee (IIT Kanpur)
• Varsha Apte (IIT Bombay)
• Vivek Kumar (IIIT Delhi)

Organization Committee

Steering Committee

• Kishore Kothapalli (IIIT, Hyderabad)
• Purushottam Kulkarni (IIT, Bombay)
• Yogesh Simmhan (IISc, Bangalore)

General Chairs

• Dip Sankar Banerjee (IIT, Jodhpur)
• Rinku Shah (IIIT, Delhi)

Program Chairs

• Nikhil Hegde (IIT, Dharwad)
• Preeti Malakar (IIT, Kanpur)

The symposium acknowledges the financial and in-kind support given by various organizations:

• The Microsoft CMT service was used for managing the peer-reviewing process for this conference. This service was provided for free by Microsoft and they bore all expenses, including costs for Azure cloud services as well as for software development and support.