Faculty Profile for Dr. Kecheng Yang

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Dr. Kecheng Yang
Assistant Professor — Computer Science
CMAL 211
phone: (512) 245-3409

Biography Section

Biography and Education

Ph.D., Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2018.

Teaching Interests

Real-time Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, Discrete Math

Research Interests

Real-time Systems, Scheduling Theory, Resource Allocation Algorithms

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • 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
  • Tian, A., Guerra John, E., & Yang, K. (2023). Poster: Unraveling Reward Functions for Head-to-Head Autonomous Racing in AWS DeepRacer. In Proceedings of the 24th International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile Computing (MobiHoc), as part of the 8th National Workshop for REU Research in Networking and Systems (REUNS) (pp. 592–594). ACM Press. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565287.3617987
  • McCalip, J., Pradhan, M., & Yang, K. (2023). Reinforcement Learning Approaches for Racing and Object Avoidance on AWS DeepRacer. In Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (pp. 958–961). IEEE Computer Society Press. https://doi.org/10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00129

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Best Student Paper Award, 40th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2019
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding 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
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Outstanding Paper Award, 26th International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems. 2018
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Student Travel Grant, 38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium. 2017

Selected Grants

  • 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, 2025). Grant.
  • Yang, Kecheng (Principal). Real-Time Scheduling Algorithms and Analysis for ROS2 Systems, Texas State University, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: October 2021, Funded: January 2022 - May 2023). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Course Coordinator
CS 3360 Computing Systems Fundamentals
2022-Present
Exam Coordinator
Credit by Exam for CS 3358
2022-Present
Member
Undergraduate Committee
2021-Present
Member
Space Committee
2021-Present
Reviewer / Referee
IEEE Transactions on Computers
2021-Present