I am passionate about building highly efficient machine learning systems and distributed systems.

I am an incoming M.S. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).

Currently, I am a visiting researcher in the Distributed and Storage Systems Lab at UIUC, working with Ram Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan on optimizing distributed vector search. I am also a team member of Reboot, a novel framework for building reactive backends out of durable data structures that safely compose into scalable distributed systems.

Previously, I was advised by Ion Stoica in the Sky Computing Lab at UC Berkeley, where I also worked closely with Jaewan Hong, Frank Luan, and Benjamin Hindman on various topics, including distributed remote memory, RPCs, shuffle, and Pub/Sub systems.

Education

• M.S. in Computer Science, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2025 - Present
• B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 2020 - 2024

News

• 3/2025: SpecLog will appear at OSDI’25!
• 3/2025: I will be attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for my M.S.

Publications

See a full list on Google Scholar

Embarcadero: A Totally-ordered, High-throughput, Pub/Sub System Using Disaggregated Memory
Jaewan Hong, Tony Hong, Junbong We, Marcos K. Aguilera, Emmanuel Amaro, Vincent Liu, Ion Stoica
In Review

Low End-to-End Latency atop a Speculative Shared Log with Fix-Ante Ordering
Shreesha Bhat, Tony Hong, Xuhao Luo, Jiyu Hu, Aishwarya Ganesan, Ramnatthan Alagappan
OSDI 2025

Exoshuffle: An Extensible Shuffle Architecture
Frank Sifei Luan, Stephanie Wang, Samyukta Yagati, Sean Kim, Kenneth Lien, Isaac Ong, Tony Hong, SangBin Cho, Eric Liang, Ion Stoica
SIGCOMM 2023

Miscellaneous

• I am training for a marathon! You can track my progress here if you are curious.
• I am also trying to travel to new places more often. You can see the places I’ve visited here.