Z. Jonny Kong

Ph.D. Student

School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Purdue University

About Me

I am a 4th-year PhD student in Computer Engineering at Purdue University, advised by Prof. Y. Charlie Hu. My general research interest is in networked systems, mobile systems, and edge computing.

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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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)

MASCOTS '23

Can 5G mmWave Enable Edge-Assisted Real-Time Object Detection for Augmented Reality?

International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '23)

Moinak Ghoshal*, Z. Jonny Kong*, Qiang Xu*, Zixiao Lu, Shivang Aggarwal, Imran Khan, Jiayi Meng, Yuanjie Li, 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)