I earned my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Virginia Tech under the guidance of Dr. Dongyoon Lee and Dr. Changhee Jung. My expertise encompasses a diverse range of system software and hardware projects, with a particular focus on computer architecture, compilers, and system software. My CV.

Publications

Compiler-Directed Whole-System Persistence,  ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), June 2024, Jianping Zeng, Tong Zhang, and Changhee Jung

[Best Paper Award] ngAP: Non-blocking Large-scale Automata Processing on GPUs, ASPLOS 2024, Tianao Ge, Tong Zhang, Hongyuan Liu.

DEVFUZZ: Automatic Device Model-Guided Device Driver Fuzzing, The 44nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 2023, Yilun Wu, Tong Zhang, Changhee Jung, Dongyoon Lee

Can NAND Flash SSDs Meet the Needs of Recommendation Models for Inference?, OCP Future Technologies Symposium 2021 [Poster]

ETD: Designing Practical Software Bug Detectors Using Commodity Hardware and Common Programming Patterns, 2020, Tong Zhang [Slides]

PeX: A Permission Check Analysis Framework for Linux Kernel, USENIX Security 2019, Tong Zhang, Wenbo Shen, Dongyoon Lee, Changhee Jung, Ahmed Azab, Ruowen Wang, [Slides]

BOGO: Buy Spatial Memory Safety, Get Temporal Memory Safety (Almost) Free, ASPLOS 2019, Tong Zhang, Dongyoon Lee, and Changhee Jung,  [Poster, Slides]

Sampler: PMU-based Sampling to Detect Memory Errors Latent in Production Software, MICRO 2018, Sam Silvestro, Hongyu Liu, Tong Zhang, Changhee Jung, Dongyoon Lee, Tongping Liu

ProRace: Practical Data Race Detection for Production Use, ASPLOS 2017, Tong Zhang, Changhee Jung, Dongyoon Lee [ Poster, Slides ]

TxRace: Efficient Data Race Detection Using Commodity Hardware Transactional Memory, ASPLOS 2016, Tong Zhang, Dongyoon Lee, Changhee Jung [ Poster, Slides ]

Education

• Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (2014 – 2019)
  • Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science
  • Advisors: Dr. Dongyoon Lee, Dr. Changhee Jung
• Shandong University (2009 – 2013)
  • Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Software Engineering