Biography and education
Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018.
Teaching Interests
Research Interests
Featured grants
- Yang, Kecheng (Principal). CAREER: Predictable Real-Time Computing in the Presence of Unpredictabilities, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $587080. (Submitted: July 2024, Funded: July 2025 - June 2030). Grant.
- Yang, Kecheng (Principal), Ngu, Hee Hiong (Co-Principal). Supplement to REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Edge Computing, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $10000. (Submitted: November 2023, Funded: January 2024 - February 2025). Grant.
- Yang, Kecheng (Principal). REU Supplement to CRII: CNS: Supporting Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Systems on Heterogeneous Platforms, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $16000. (Submitted: February 2023, Funded: August 2023 - May 2024). Grant.
- Yang, Kecheng (Principal). REU Supplement to CRII: CNS: Supporting Mixed-Criticality Real-Time Systems on Heterogeneous Platforms, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $16000. (Submitted: March 2022, Funded: August 2022 - May 2023). Grant.
- Yang, Kecheng (Principal), Ngu, Hee Hiong (Co-Principal), Chen, Xiao (Supporting), Islam, Tanzima Z (Supporting), Metsis, Vangelis (Supporting), Hou, Tao (Supporting), Rathore, Heena (Supporting), Wang, Lu (Supporting), Queiroz de Farias, Mylene Christine (Supporting), Qasem, Apan Muhammad (Supporting). REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Edge Computing, National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $389995. (Submitted: August 2021, Funded: March 1, 2022 - February 28, 2026). Grant.
Featured scholarly/creative works
- Arafat, A. A., Wilson, K., Yang, K., & Guo, Z. (2024). Dynamic Priority Scheduling of Multi-Threaded ROS 2 Executor With Shared Resources. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (TCAD), Special Issue for the 24th ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), 43(11), 3732–3743. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2024.3445259
- Zhou, Y., Guo, Z., Dong, Z., & Yang, K. (2024). Multi-Accelerator Neural Network Inference via TensorRT in Heterogeneous Embedded Systems. In Proceedings of the 48th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (pp. 463–472). IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC61105.2024.00070
- Jiang, Z., Yang, K., Fisher, N., Guan, N., Audsley, N., & Dong, Z. (2024). Hopscotch: A Hardware-Software Co-design for Efficient Cache Resizing on Multi-core SoCs. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 35(1), 89–104. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2023.3332711
- Guo, Z., Vaidhun, S., Arafat, A. A., Guan, N., & Yang, K. (2023). Stealing Static Slack via WCRT and Sporadic P-Servers in Deadline-Driven Scheduling. In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS) (pp. 40–52). IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/RTSS59052.2023.00014
- Zhou, Y., Guo, Z., Dong, Z., & Yang, K. (2023). TensorRT Implementations of Model Quantization on Edge SoC. In Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC) (pp. 486–493). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSoC60832.2023.00078
Featured awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (NSF). 2025
- Award / Honor Recipient: CRII Award, National Science Foundation (NSF). 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Paper Award, 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Best Student Paper Award, 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2019
- Award / Honor Recipient: Schloss Dagstuhl - NSF Support Grant for Junior Researchers, Dagstuhl Seminar 19101, Schloss Dagstuhl and NSF. 2019
Featured service activities
- Other
CS 3360 Computing Systems Fundamentals
- Other
Credit by Exam for CS 3358
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Undergraduate Committee
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Space Committee
- Reviewer / Referee
IEEE Transactions on Computers
- Reviewer / Referee
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems