Boulder, Colorado · September 27–29, 2026

The following awards were presented at IISWC 2026. Congratulations to all recipients, and our thanks to everyone who reviewed for the symposium.

Best Paper Award

Characterizing CPU-Induced Slowdowns in Multi-GPU LLM Inference

Euijun Chung, Yuxiao Jia, Aaron Jezghani, Hyesoon Kim
Georgia Institute of Technology

Characterizing How Complex Agentic AI Systems Handle General Tasks: A Trace-Based Simulation Study

Donghwan Kim, Prakhar Singh, Kiwan Maeng
Pennsylvania State University
Younghoon Min, Jongryool Kim
SK hynix
Jongse Park
KAIST

Distinguished Artifact Award

Characterizing How Complex Agentic AI Systems Handle General Tasks: A Trace-Based Simulation Study

Donghwan Kim, Prakhar Singh, Kiwan Maeng
Pennsylvania State University
Younghoon Min, Jongryool Kim
SK hynix
Jongse Park
KAIST

This paper also received a Best Paper Award.

Hydra: Phase-Aware Workload Characterization of LLM Inference across Edge SoC Generations, Backends, and Quantization Levels

Amir Taherin, Sana Taghipour Anvari, Charles Amante, Yixiao Chen, Ruben Noroian, Zlatan Feric, Nicolas Bohm Agostini, Pu Zhao, Yanzhi Wang, David Kaeli
Northeastern University
José Cano
University of Glasgow
Bin Ren
William & Mary

Distinguished Reviewer Award

Sandeepa Bhuyan

In recognition of outstanding service to the IISWC 2026 review process.