Publications

Journal Papers

• [JCST] Physical Intelligence on the Edge: A Vision for the Decade Ahead [PDF]
  Weisong Shi, Zheng Dong, Peipei Zhou
  Journal of Computer Science and Technology 40th Anniversary Special Issue.
• [IC] Memory-Augmented Autoencoder with Reservoir Computing for Edge-Based Anomaly Detection in Autonomous Systems
  Fabiha Nowshin, Zheng Dong, Yi (Cindy) Yang
  IEEE Internet Computing, 2025
• [TECS] Reaction Latency Analysis of Message Synchronization in Edge-assisted Autonomous Driving
  Reza Jafarpourmarzouni, Sumaiya, Ruoxiang Li, Nan Guan, Guang Wang, Peipei Zhou, Zheng Dong
  ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2025
• [TMC] Real-Batch: Real-time Adaptive Batch Processing for Accurate Object Detection in Autonomous Driving
  Tianen Liu, Shuai Wang, Borui Li, Zheng Dong, Guang Wang, Wei Gong, and Tian He
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025
• [TMC] FluidEdge: Expediting Serverless Machine Learning Inference via Bottleneck-aware Auto-scaling on Edge SoCs
  Borui Li, Tiange Xia, Weilong Wang, Jingyuan Zhang, Shuai Wang, Chenhong Cao, Zheng Dong, Shuai Wang
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2025
• [CSUR] From Perception to Computation: Revisiting Delay Optimization for Connected Autonomous Vehicles
  Tianen Liu, Shuai Wang, Zheng Dong, Borui Li, and Tian He
  ACM Computing Surveys, 2025
• [IoTJ] Towards Real-Time and Efficient Perception Workflows in Software-Defined Vehicles
  Sumaiya, Reza Jafarpourmarzouni, Yichen Luo, Sidi Lu, and Zheng Dong
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2024
• [TPDS] Hopscotch: A Hardware-Software Co-design for Efficient Cache Resizing on Multi-core SoCs
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Nan Guan, Neil Audsley, Zheng Dong
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2023.
• [TMC] FairMove: A Data-Driven Vehicle Displacement System for Jointly Optimizing Profit Efficiency and Fairness of Electric For-Hire Vehicles
  Guang Wang, Sihong He, Shuai Wang, Fei Miao, Fan Zhang, Zheng Dong, and Desheng Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023.
• [TVT] Towards C-V2X Enabled Collaborative Autonomous Driving
  William He, Baofu Wu, Zheng Dong, and Weisong Shi
  IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2023.
• [TMC] Towards Accessible Shared Autonomous Electric Mobility with Dynamic Deadlines
  Guang Wang, Zhou Qin, Shuai Wang, Huijun Sun, Zheng Dong, and Desheng Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022.
• [TC] Towards Hard Real-Time and Energy-Efficient Virtualization for Many-core Embedded Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Yunfeng Ma, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022.
• [JSA] Towards an Energy-Efficient Quarter-Clairvoyant Mixed-Criticality System
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong
  Journal of Systems Architecture, 2022.
• [TIOT] WatchDog: Real-time Vehicle Tracking on Geo-distributed Edge Nodes
  Zheng Dong, Yan Lu, Guangmo Tong, Yuanchao Shu, Shuai Wang and Weisong Shi
  ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2022.
• [TC] AXI-IC^RT: Towards a Real-Time AXI-Interconnect for Highly Integrated SoCs
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Ian Gray, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2022.
• [TCAD] Schedulability Analysis for Co-Scheduling Real-Time Tasks on Multiprocessors
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 2022.
• [TPDS] Tardiness Bounds for Sporadic Gang Tasks under Preemptive Global EDF Scheduling
  Zheng Dong, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Cong Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2021.
• [TNSE] On Multi-Cascade Influence Maximization: Model, Hardness and Algorithmic Framework
  Guangmo Tong, Ruiqi Wang, and Zheng Dong
  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2021.
• [TCSS] Time-constrained Adaptive Influence Maximization
  Guangmo Tong, Ruiqi Wang, Zheng Dong and Xiang Li
  IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 2020.
• [IOTJ] MoLoc: Unsupervised Fingerprint Roaming for Device-free Indoor Localization in a Mobile Ship Environment
  Mozi Chen, Kezhong Liu, Jie Ma, Zheng Dong, Guangmo Tong and Cong Liu
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2020.
• [TMC] SWIM: Speed-aware WiFi-based Passive Indoor Localization for Mobile Ship Environment
  Mozi Chen, Kezhong Liu, Jie Ma, Yu Gu, Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2019.
• [TPDS] A General Analysis Framework for Soft Real-Time Tasks
  Zheng Dong, Cong Liu, Soroush Bateni, Zelun Kong, Liang He, Lingming Zhang, Ravi Prakash, and Yuqun Zhang
  IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2018.
• [RTJ] Analysis Techniques for Supporting Hard Real-Time Sporadic Gang Task Systems
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Real-Time Systems Journal, 2018.
• [ToN] Delay Minimization for Relay-based Cooperative Data Exchange with Network Coding
  Zheng Dong, Dau Son Hoang, Yuen Chau, Yu Gu and Xiumin Wang
  IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2014.

Conference Papers

• [IGSC 2026] To Overlay or to Customize? Revisiting Architectural Choices in Heterogeneous Systems
  Xingzhen Chen, Shixin Ji, Zheng Dong, Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 16th International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), June 22–24, 2026, Finger Lakes, NY, USA
• [GLSVLSI 2026] DORA: Dataflow-Instruction Orchestration Architecture for DNN Acceleration
  Xingzhen Chen, Zhuoping Yang, Jinming Zhuang, Shixin Ji, Sarah Schultz, Zheng Dong, Weisong Shi and Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 36th Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), June 22–24, 2026, Finger Lakes, NY, USA
• [MOST 2026] Log What Matters: Safety-Aware Adaptive Logging for CAVs in Dynamic Conditions
  Johora Akter Polin, Yichen Luo, Sumaiya, Zheng Dong, and Sidi Lu
  Proceedings of the Fourth IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST), May 4–6, 2026
• [DAC 2026] FILCO: Flexible Composing Architecture with Real-Time Reconfigurability for DNN Acceleration
  Xingzhen Chen, Jinming Zhuang, Zhuoping Yang, Shixin Ji, Sarah Schultz, Zheng Dong, Weisong Shi, and Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 63rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2026
• [DAC 2026] PHAROS: Pipelined Heterogeneous Accelerators for Real-time Safety-critical Systems With Deadline Compliance
  Shixin Ji, Jinming Zhuang, Sarah Schultz, Zhuoping Yang, Xingzhen Chen, Zheng Dong, Alex Jones, Yihui Ren and Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 63rd Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2026
• [ICRA] UrbanHuRo: A Two-Layer Human-Robot Collaboration Framework for the Joint Optimization of Heterogeneous Urban Services
  Tonmoy Dey, Lin Jiang, Zheng Dong, Guang Wang
  2026 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), June 2026, Vienna, Austria
• [RTSS 2025] DERCA: Deterministic Cycle-Level Accelerator on REconfigurable platforms in DNN-Enabled Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems
  Shixin Ji, Zhuoping Yang, Xingzhen Chen, Wei Zhang, Jinming Zhuang, Alex Jones, Zheng Dong, Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 46th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, December 2025, Boston, USA.
• [GLSVLSI 2025] ART: Customizing Accelerators for DNN-Enabled Real-Time Safety-Critical Systems
  Shixin Ji, Xingzhen Chen, Jinming Zhuang, Wei Zhang, Zhuoping Yang, Sarah Schultz, Yukai Song, Jingtong Hu, Alex K. Jones, Zheng Dong, Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 35th edition of Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, GLSVLSI 2025
• [COMPSAC 2024] Multi-Accelerator Neural Network Inference via TensorRT in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems
  Yuxiao Zhou, Zhishan Guo, Zheng Dong and Kecheng Yang
  Proceedings of the 48th IEEE International Conference on Computers, Software, and Applications, 2024.
• [MOST 2024] Enhancing Real-time Inference Performance for Time-Critical Software Defined Vehicles
  Sumaiya, Reza Jafarpourmarzouni, Sidi Lu, and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies
• [MOST 2024] Enhancing Driving Behavior Analysis in Autonomous Systems: A Reservoir Computing and Temporal-Aware Machine Learning Approach
  Fabiha Nowshin, Sanchit Sethi, Zheng Dong, and Yang Yi
  Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies
• [AAAI 2024] Nondbrem: Nondeterministic offline reinforcement learning for large-scale order dispatching
  Hongbo Zhang, Guang Wang, Xu Wang, Zhengyang Zhou, Chen Zhang, Zheng Dong, and Yang Wang
  Proceedings of the 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
• [RTSS 2023] Worst-Case Latency Analysis of Message Synchronization in ROS
  Ruoxiang Li, Xu Jiang, Zheng Dong, Jen-Ming Wu, Chun Jason Xue and Nan Guan
  Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2023.
• [MCSoC 2023] TensorRT Implementations of Model Quantization on Edge SoC
  Yuxiao Zhou, Zhishan Guo, Zheng Dong and Kecheng Yang
  Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip, 2023.
• [DAC 2023] BlueFace: Integrating an Accelerator into the Core’s Pipeline through Algorithm-Interface Co-Design for Real-Time SoCs
  Zhe Jiang, Nathan Fisher, Nan Guan, Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2023.
• [DAC 2023] Reaction Time Analysis of Event-Triggered Processing Chains with Data Refreshing
  Yue Tang, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Zheng Dong and Wang Yi
  Proceedings of the 60th Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2023.
• [MOST 2023] Modeling and Property Analysis of the Message Synchronization Policy in ROS [Best Paper Runner-up]
  Ruoxiang Li, Zheng Dong, Jen-Ming Wu, Chun Jason Xue and Nan Guan
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Mobility: Operations, Services, and Technologies (MOST), 2023.
• [DATE 2023] Analysis and Optimization of Worst-Case Time Disparity in Cause-Effect Chains
  Xu Jiang, Xiantong Luo, Nan Guan, Zheng Dong, Shaoshan Liu and Wang Yi
  Proceedings of the 26th Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE), 2023.
• [RTSS 2022] A Utilization-based Test for Non-preemptive Gang Tasks on Multiprocessors
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2022.
• [RTSS 2022] Prophet: Realizing a Predictable Real-time Perception Pipeline for Autonomous Vehicles
  Liangkai Liu, Zheng Dong, Yanzhi Wang and Weisong Shi
  Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2022.
• [RTSS 2022] Worst-Case Time Disparity Analysis of Message Synchronization in ROS
  Ruoxiang Li, Nan Guan, Xu Jiang, Zhishan Guo, Zheng Dong and Mingsong Lv
  Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2022.
• [ECML 2022] Coupling User Preference with External Rewards to Enable Driver-centered and Resource-aware EV Charging Recommendation
  Chengyin Li, Zheng Dong, Nathan Fisher and Dongxiao Zhu
  Proceedings of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2022.
• [KDD 2022] RT-VeD: Real-Time VoI Detection on Edge Nodes with an Adaptive Model Selection Framework
  Shuai Wang, Junke Lu, Baosheng Guo, Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2022.
• [ICDCS 2022] To Turn or Not To Turn, SafeCross is the Answer
  Baofu Wu, Yuankai He, Zheng Dong, Jian Wan, Jilin Zhang, and Weisong Shi
  Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 10-13, 2022, Bologna, Italy.
• [DAC 2022] BlueScale: A Scalable Memory Architecture for Predictable Real-Time Computing on Highly Integrated SoCs
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Neil Audsley, Nathan Fisher, Weisong Shi, and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 59th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), July 2022.
• [KDD 2021] Joint Real-Time Repositioning and Charging for Electric Carsharing with Dynamic Deadlines
  Guang Wang, Zhou Qin, Shuai Wang, Huijun Sun, Zheng Dong, Desheng Zhang
  Proceedings of the 27th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2021.
• [DAC 2021] I/O-GUARD: Hardware/Software Co-Design for I/O Virtualization with Guaranteed Real-Time Performance
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Yunfeng Ma, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley, and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 58th ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference (DAC), to appear, December 2021.
• [ICDE 2021] Data-Driven Fairness-Aware Vehicle Displacement for Large-Scale Electric Taxi Fleets
  Guang Wang, Shuxin Zhong, Shuai Wang, Fei Miao, Zheng Dong, Desheng Zhang
  Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, 2021.
• [RTSS 2020] Mixed-Criticality Scheduling in Compositional Real-Time Systems with Multiple Budget Estimates
  Kecheng Yang and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2020.
• [RTSS 2020] Pythia-MCS: Enabling Quarter-Clairvoyance in I/O-Driven Mixed-Criticality Systems
  Zhe Jiang, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, Neil Audsley and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2020.
• [MetroCAD 2020] Collaborative Autonomous Driving: Vision and Challenges
  Zheng Dong, Weisong Shi, Guangmo Tong and Kecheng Yang
  Proceedings of the third IEEE International Conference on Connected and Autonomous Driving, 2020.
• [RTSS 2019] An Efficient Utilization-based Test for Scheduling Hard Real-Time Sporadic DAG Task Systems on Multiprocessors
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, 2019.
• [RTAS 2018] Shared-Resource-Centric Limited Preemptive Scheduling: A Comprehensive Study of Suspension-base Partitioning Approaches
  Zheng Dong, Cong Liu, Soroush Bateni, Kuan-Hsun Chen, Jian-Jia Chen, Georg von der Bruggen and Junjie Shi
  Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium, Porto, Portugal, April, 2018.
• [RTSS 2017] Analysis techniques for supporting hard real-time sporadic gang task systems [Outstanding Paper Award]
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The 38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Paris, France, December, 2017.
• [RTSS 2017] Rec: Predictable charging scheduling for electric taxi fleets
  Zheng Dong, Cong Liu, Yanhua Li, Jie Bao, Yu Gu and Tian He
  Proceedings of The 38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Paris, France, December, 2017.
• [SEC 2017] An Energy-efficient Offloading Framework with Predictable Temporal Correctness
  Zheng Dong, Yuchuan Liu, Husheng Zhou, Xusheng Xiao, Yu Gu, Lingming Zhang and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The Second ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, San Jose, CA, October, 2017.
• [RTCSA 2017] Fixed-Priority Scheduling of Mixed Soft and Hard Real-Time Tasks on Multiprocessors [Best Paper Nomination]
  Jian-Jia Chen, Wen-Hung Huang, Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications, Hsinchu, 2017.
• [ECRTS 2017] Optimal Dataflow Scheduling on a Heterogeneous Multiprocessor with Reduced Response Time Bounds
  Zheng Dong, Cong Liu, Alan Gatherer, Lee McFearin, Peter Yan, and James H. Anderson
  Proceedings of the 29th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2017.
• [IoTDI 2017] ATHOME: Automatic Tunable Wireless Charging for Smart Home
  Zheng Dong, Yu Gu, Lingkun Fu, Jimin Chen, Tian He and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The Second ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation, Pittsburgh, USA, April, 2017.
• [RTSS 2016] Closing the loop for the selective conversion approach: a utilization-based test for hard real-time suspending task systems
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Porto, Portugal, December, 2016.
• [RTSS 2016] Enabling predictable wireless data collection in severe energy harvesting environments
  Zheng Dong, Yu Gu, Jiming Chen, Shaojie Tang, Tian He, and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Porto, Portugal, December, 2016.
• [SECON 2016] Energy Synchronized Task Assignment in Rechargeable Sensor Networks
  Zheng Dong, Yu Gu, Lingkun Fu, Peng Cheng, Liang He, Chau Yuen, Wei Gao, Tian He and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The 13th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, LONDON, UK.
• [SECON 2014] REPC: Reliable and Efficient Participatory Computing for Mobile Devices
  Zheng Dong, Linghe Kong, Peng Cheng, Liang He, Yu Gu, Lu Fang, Ting Zhu and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of The 11th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking, Singapore.
• [ISIT 2013] Balanced Sparsest Generator Matrices for MDS Codes
  S. H. Dau, W. Song, Zheng Dong, and C. Yuen
  Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory, Istanbul, Turkey.
• [VTC 2013] Delay Minimization for Relay-Based Cooperative Data Exchange with Network Coding
  Zheng Dong, Xiumin Wang, Dau Son Hoang and Yuen Chau
  Proceedings of IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference, Las Vegas, USA.
• [NSWCTC 2010] Delay-aware broadcast scheduling in wireless networks using network coding
  Zheng Dong, Cheng Zhan, Yinlong Xu
  Proceedings of The Second International Conference on Networks Security, Wireless Communications and Trusted Computing.

Other Research Papers
(Workshops, Demo/Poster Abstracts, Work-in-Progress, Reports, Book Chapters)

• [Report] Report for NSF Workshop on Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Medical Applications
  Peipei Zhou, Zheng Dong, Insup Lee, Aidong Zhang, Robert Dick, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Xiaodong Wu, Weisong Shi, Zhuoping Yang, Jingtong Hu, Yiyu Shi
  NSF Workshop on Algorithm- Hardware Co-design for Medical Applications, September 26, 2024 - September 27, 2024, Pittsburgh, PA.
• [FCCM 2026 - Poster] DORA: DataflowInstruction Orchestration Architecture for DNN Acceleration
  Xingzhen Chen, Zhuoping Yang, Jinming Zhuang, Shixin Ji, Sarah Schultz, Zheng Dong, Weisong Shi, Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 34th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines (FCCM), 2026
• [FPGA 2025 - Poster] Towards Accelerator Customization in Real-time Safety-critical Systems
  Shixin Ji, Xingzhen Chen, Wei Zhang, Zhuoping Yang, Jinming Zhuang, Sarah Schultz, Yukai Song, Jingtong Hu, Alex K. Jones, Zheng Dong, Peipei Zhou
  Proceedings of the 33rd ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), 2025
• [RTAS 2021 - BIP] Brief Industry Paper: AXI-Interconnect^RT: Towards a Real-Time AXI-Interconnect in System-on-Chips
  Zhe Jiang, Neil Audsley, Dayu Shi, Kecheng Yang, Nathan Fisher, and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS), May 18–21, 2021
• [WMC 2019] Mixed-Criticality Scheduling with Varying Processor Supply in Compositional Real-Time Systems
  Kecheng Yang and Zheng Dong
  Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems, December 2019
• [RTSS 2019 - WiP] Work-in-Progress: Non-preemptive Scheduling of Sporadic Gang Tasks on Multiprocessors
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), 2019
• [RTSS 2018 - WiP] Work-in-Progress: New Analysis Techniques for Supporting Hard Real-Time Sporadic DAG Task Systems on Multiprocessors
  Zheng Dong and Cong Liu
  Proceedings of the 39th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS), Nashville, Tennessee, December 2018
• [SenSys 2013 - Demo] Exploring Smartphone-based Participatory Computing to Improve Pervasive Surveillance
  Zheng Dong, Banghui Lu, Liang He, Peng Cheng, Yu Gu and Lu Fang
  Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Rome, Italy, 2013