Z. Jonny Kong

Ph.D. Candidate

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Purdue University

About Me

I am a 5-th year computer systems PhD at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Y. Charlie Hu.

More recently, my research has focused on (1) Building efficient, high-throughput machine learning inference systems, with a focus on supporting latency-critical applications such as augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR). (2) Experimental measurement studies on emerging mobile networks such as 5G mmWave. My research has been acknowledged with a Best Paper Award from ACM EdgeSys 2022, and a Best Dataset Award from PAM 2021.

Previously, I got my M.S. from the Dept. of Computer Science at UCLA in 2020, working with Prof. Lixia Zhang. I got a B.E. in Automation from Beihang University in 2018.

Recent Publications

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ATC '25

PPIPE: Efficient Video Analytics Serving on Heterogeneous GPU Clusters via Pool-Based Pipeline Parallelism

2025 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC '25)

Z. Jonny Kong*, Qiang Xu*, Y. Charlie Hu (* co-primary)

IMC '24

High-Fidelity Cellular Network Control-Plane Traffic Generation without Domain Knowledge

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '24)

Z. Jonny Kong, Nathan Hu, Y. Charlie Hu, Jiayi Meng, Yaron Koral

MobiSys '24

ARISE: High-Capacity AR Offloading Inference Serving via Proactive Scheduling

ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys '24)

Z. Jonny Kong*, Qiang Xu*, Y. Charlie Hu (* co-primary)


IMC '23

Performance of Cellular Networks on the Wheels

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '23)

Moinak Ghoshal*, Imran Khan*, Z. Jonny Kong*, Phuc Dinh, Jiayi Meng, Y. Charlie Hu, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (* co-primary)

MobiCom '23

AccuMO: Accuracy-Centric Multitask Offloading in Edge-Assisted Mobile Augmented Reality

Annual International Conference On Mobile Computing And Networking (MobiCom '23)

Z. Jonny Kong*, Qiang Xu*, Jiayi Meng, Y. Charlie Hu (* co-primary)