Ke Zhong Ph.D. student Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania

About Me

• I am currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania advised by Prof. Sebastian Angel.
• I am interested in computer systems in general and especially applying different tools (e..g, cryptography) to build decentralized, federated, and privacy-preserving systems.
• I obtained my bachelor's degree in both Software Engineering and Finance (minor) from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
• Previously I was a member of the Institute of Parallel and Distributed Systems (IPADS) where I had the great fortune to be advised by Prof. Rong Chen and learned a lot from the amazing guys there.
• I also spent a great summer at Penn working with Prof. Boon Thau Loo and Prof. Nik Sultana.

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Education

University of Pennsylvania

Aug 2019 — Present
• Ph.D. student at the Department of Computer and Information Science

Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Sep 2015 — Jun 2019
• Undergraduate in Software Engineering and Finance

Industry Experiences

Software Engineer Intern, Google
May 2022 — Aug 2022
• AutoML infrastructure team

Software Engineer Intern, Google
Jun 2021 — Aug 2021
• Network infrastructure team

Publications

Addax: A fast, private, and accountable ad exchange infrastructure
Ke Zhong, Yiping Ma, Yifeng Mao, and Sebastian Angel
20th Usenix Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI'23), 2023.

Ibex: Privacy-preserving ad conversion tracking and bidding
Ke Zhong, Yiping Ma, and Sebastian Angel
ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'22), 2022.

Incremental Offline/Online PIR
Yiping Ma, Ke Zhong, Tal Rabin, and Sebastian Angel
31st Usenix Security Symposium (Security'22), 2022.

Optimizing Data-intensive Systems in Disaggregated Data Centers with TELEPORT
Qizhen Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Sidharth Sankhe, Zhilei Zheng, Ke Zhong, Sebastian Angel, Ang Chen, Vincent Liu, and Boon Thau Loo
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD'22), 2022.

Mycelium: Large-Scale Distributed Graph Queries with Differential Privacy
Edo Roth, Karan Newatia, Yiping Ma, Ke Zhong, Sebastian Angel, and Andreas Haeberlen
28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'21), 2021.

A file system for safely interacting with untrusted USB flash drives
Ke Zhong, Zhihao Jiang, Ke Ma, and Sebastian Angel
12th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage'20), 2020.

Making Break-ups Less Painful: Source-level Support for Transforming Legacy Software into a Network of Tasks
Nik Sultana, Achala Rao, Zihao Jin, Pardis Pashakhanloo, Henry Zhu, Ke Zhong, and Boon Thau Loo.
Workshop on Forming an Ecosystem Around Software Transformation (FEAST), co-located with CCS, 2018.