I am a first year M.S. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), where I work with Fan Lai on machine learning systems. Lately, I have been researching techniques to improve the performance (e2e latency, ttft, etc.) of agentic systems while preserving their quality.

Recently, I was a visiting researcher in the Distributed and Storage Systems Lab at UIUC, where I worked with Ram Alagappan and Aishwarya Ganesan on shared logs. I was also an early team member of Reboot, a novel programming framework that provides developers a way to build safe and scalable full-stack agent applications by enabling transactional microservices.

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

A few miscelleneous things about my life:
  • I am training for a marathon! My goal is to run the London Marathon.
  • I am also trying to travel to new places more often! Check out the places I've visited here.
  • I play badminton pretty frequently.

News

SpecLog will appear at OSDI'25!
March 2025
I will be attending the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for my M.S.
March 2025

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

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'25 | Operating Systems Design and Implementation
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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'23 | Special Interest Group on Data Communication
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Industry

Software Engineer @ Reboot
2024 - 2025
Machine Learning Engineer Intern @ Twitch
2023
Software Engineer Intern @ Twitch
2022
Software Engineer Intern @ Available Works
2021 - 2022

Teaching

Course Staff for CS61C: Computer Architecture
2023
Instructor for CS198-75: Full Stack iOS Development
2022 - 2023

Service

Eurosys Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
2026
SOSP Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
2025
OSDI Artifact Evaluation Committee Member
2025
Director @ Cal Hacks
2021 - 2024
Vice President @ Cloud at California
2021
Lieutenant Governor @ Key Club International
2019 - 2020