Z. Jonny Kong

Research Scientist

Meta AI Systems Co-Design

About Me

I am a Research Scientist at Meta, on the AI and Systems Co-Design team. I was previously on the MSL Infra team.

My work focuses on high-performance ML infrastructure and AI–systems co-design, such as (1) optimizing post-training and inference for Meta’s Muse Spark models through GPU kernel optimization in Triton, CUDA, and CuteDSL, as well as GPU networking techniques such as device-initiated networking and comm-comp overlap; and (2) building performance models that project the impact of new model architectures, hardware, and inference techniques to guide AI–systems co-design decisions.

I received my PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2025, advised by Prof. Y. Charlie Hu. My doctoral research focused on efficient ML inference systems.

News

💻 [Aug 2026] Invited to serve on the ACM MobiCom 2027 TPC. Please consider submitting!

💻 [Mar 2026] Invited to serve on the IEEE ICNP 2026 TPC. Please consider submitting!

💻 [Oct 2025] Invited to serve on the MobiSys 2026 TPC. Please consider submitting!

🎉 [Jul 2025] Received USENIX ATC 2025 travel grant - many thanks to USENIX!

🎉 [Jul 2025] PPipe is accepted by USENIX ATC 2025 - see you in Boston, July 7-9!

🎉 [Nov 2024] Paper on 5G Multi-carrier access is accepted by PAM 2025!

Publications: Full publication list

IMC '25

Replication: "Performance of Cellular Networks on the Wheels"

ACM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC '25)

Moinak Ghoshal, Omar Basit, Imran Khan, Z. Jonny Kong, Sizhe Wang, Yufei Feng, Phuc Dinh, Y. Charlie Hu, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

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)

PAM '25

A Large-Scale Study of the Potential of Multi-Carrier Access in the 5G Era

Passive and Active Measurement (PAM '25)

Fukun Chen, Moinak Ghoshal, Enfu Nan, Phuc Dinh, Imran Khan, Z. Jonny Kong, Y. Charlie Hu, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

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)

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)

EdgeSys '23

How to Pipeline Frame Transfer and Server Inference in Edge-assisted AR to Optimize AR Task Accuracy?

International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys '23)

Pranab Dash, Z. Jonny Kong, Y Charlie Hu, Chris Turner, Dell Wolfensparger, Mun Gi Choi, Abhinav Kshitij, Viviane E McLandrich

5G-MeMU '22

An in-depth study of uplink performance of 5G mmWave networks

Workshop on 5G and Beyond Network Measurements, Modeling, and Use Cases

Moinak Ghoshal*, Z. Jonny Kong*, Qiang Xu*, Zixiao Lu, Shivang Aggarwal, Imran Khan, Yuanjie Li, Y. Charlie Hu, and Dimitrios Koutsonikolas (* co-primary)

EdgeSys '22

Do We Need Sophisticated System Design for Edge-assisted Augmented Reality?

International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys '22)

Jiayi Meng, Z. Jonny Kong, Y. Charlie Hu, Mun Gi Choi, Dhananjay Lal

🏆 Best Paper Award

PAM '22

Can 5G mmWave support Multi-User AR?

Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM '22)

Moinak Ghoshal, Pranab Dash, Z. Jonny Kong, Qiang Xu, Y. Charlie Hu, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

NAI '21

Do Larger (More Accurate) Deep Neural Network Models Help in Edge-assisted Augmented Reality?

SIGCOMM Workshop on Network-Application Integration (NAI '21)

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

PAM '21

Throughput Prediction on 60 GHz Mobile Devices for High-Bandwidth, Latency-Sensitive Applications

Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM '21)

Shivang Aggarwal, Z. Jonny Kong, Moinak Ghoshal, Y. Charlie Hu, Dimitrios Koutsonikolas

🏆 Best Dataset Award

ICC ICN-SRA '20

Supporting Delay Tolerant Networking: A Comparative Study of Epidemic Routing and NDN

Workshop On Information-Centric Networking Solutions for Real-world Applications

Tianxiang Li, Z. Jonny Kong, Lixia Zhang

MASS '19

Distributed Dataset Synchronization in Disruptive Networks

IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS '19)

Tianxiang Li, Z. Jonny Kong, Spyridon Mastorakis, Lixia Zhang