Jilong Kuang Image Jilong Kuang


(At Samsung Research America in Mountain View, CA since November 2011)
Computer Science Graduate Student
Engineering Building Unit 2, Room 463
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521

Office Phone: (+1) 951-827-2001
E-mail: jkuang AT cs DOT ucr DOT edu
 		Biography
Education
Research Interests
Publications
Professional Activities
Internships
Graduate Courses
Teaching
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Biography
Education
    2006-2011 (Ph.D) Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science, University of California, Riverside.
    2002-2006 (B.E) Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications.
      Overall GPA: 3.7/4.0; Major GPA: 3.9/4.0
      Rank: Top 3%, 5th out of 190
Research Interests

    Digital Health: HIPAA-compliant cloud platform, mobile/wearable sensing for health biomarker, digital therapeutics, health care digitalization.

    Cloud Computing and Big Data: Scalable and secure cloud application, big data store and processing using Hadoop/MapReduce framework and Spark ecosystem.

    Distributed Database: Time-series data platform, adaptive indexing, in-store stream processing, real-time query engine, database system modeling.

    Intelligent Platform: Distributed RDF store, bulk loading of triples, SPARQL query optimization, RDFS/OWL parallel inferencing.

    Distributed Caching: In-memory key-value storage for large-scale datacenter, high-throughput and low-latency object caching development.

    Operating Systems: Microkernel-based OS development, Linux run-time environment development for multicore servers, scalability and security in resource management and device driver framework.

    Networking Systems: High-performance network card driver development, customized TCP/IP protocol optimization, time-series traffic generation.

    Computer Architecture: Parallel processing/multi-threading on multicore system, NUMA memory architecture, core/cache topology, power/thermal modeling.

    Multicore Scheduling: Parallel-pipeline scheduling, memory/cache/core-aware scheduling, power/energy optimization, thermal management.

Publications
    Journal:

      [ J-BHI ] Cover Page Featured Article
        Li Zhu, Viswam Nathan, Jilong Kuang, Jacob Kim, Robert Avram, Jeffrey Olgin and Jun Alex Gao
        "Atrial Fibrillation Detection and Atrial Fibrillation Burden Estimation via Wearables"
        The IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Volume 26, Issue 5, May 2022

      [ Heart Rhythm ]
        Robert Avram, Mattheus Ramsis, Ashley D. Cristal, Viswam Nathan, Li Zhu, Jacob Kim, Jilong Kuang, Jun Alex Gao, Eric Vittinghoff, Linnea Rohdin-Bibby, Sara Yogi, Emina Seremet, Valerie Carp, Fabio Badilini, Mark J. Pletcher, Gregory M. Marcus, David Mortara and Jeffrey E. Olgin
        "Validation of An Algorithm for Continuous Monitoring of Atrial Fibrillation Using a Consumer Smartwatch"
        The Elsevier Heart Rhythm Journal, Volume 18, Issue 9, September 2021

      [ Smart Health ] Most Downloaded Paper Award
        Md Juber Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "Automated Assessment of Pulmonary Patients using Heart Rate Variability from Everyday Wearables"
        The Elsevier Smart Health Journal, Volume 15, March 2020

    Conference:

      [ ICASSP 2024 ]
        David Lin, Mahbubur Rahman, Li Zhu, Viswam Nathan, Jungmok Bae, Christina Rosa, Wendy Berry Mendes, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Ballistocardiogram-based Heart Rate Variability Estimation for Stress Monitoring Using Consumer Earbuds"
        The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.

      [ ICASSP 2024 ]
        Ramesh Kumar Sah, Md. Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Li Zhu, Jungmok Bae, Christina Rosa, Wendy Berry Mendes, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Heart Rate Variability Estimation with Dynamic Fine Filtering and Global-Local Context Outlier Removal"
        The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.

      [ ICASSP 2024 ]
        Jeremy Speth, Korosh Vatanparvar, Li Zhu, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Freq2Time: Weakly Supervised Learning of Camera-based RPPG From Heart Rate"
        The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.

      [ ICASSP 2024 ]
        Migyeong Gwak, Korosh Vatanparvar, Li Zhu, Nafiul Rashid, Mohsin Ahmed, Jungmok Bae, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Multimodal Breathing Rate Estimation Using Facial Motion and RPPG From RGB Camera"
        The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.

      [ ICASSP 2024 ]
        Qijia Shao, Li Zhu, Mohsin Ahmed, Korosh Vatanparvar, Migyeong Gwak, Nafiul Rashid, Jungmok Bae, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Normalization is All You Need: Robust Full-range Contactless SpO2 Estimation with an RGB Camera Across Users"
        The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.

      [ ICASSP 2024 ]
        Mehrab Bin Morshed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Li Zhu, Jungmok Bae, Christina Rosa, Wendy Berry Mendes, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Core Body Temperature and Its Role in Detecting Acute Stress: A Feasibility Study"
        The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Seoul, Korea, April 2024.

      [ BSN 2023 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Nafiul Rashid, Mohsin Ahmed, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Activity State Tracking Under Non-Restricted Ambulatory Condition"
        The 2023 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, Boston, MA, October 2023.

      [ BSN 2023 ]
        Yincheng Jin, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif, Ahmed, Lana Mukharesh, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "VTMonitor: Tidal Volume Estimation Using Earbuds"
        The 2023 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, Boston, MA, October 2023.

      [ BSN 2023 ]
        Jicheng Li, Roghayeh Leila Barmaki, Li Zhu, Korosh Vatanparvar, Migyeong Gwak, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Advancements in Face Alignment Evaluation for Contact-less Vital Sign Detection"
        The 2023 IEEE-EMBS International Conference on Body Sensor Networks, Boston, MA, October 2023.

      [ EMBC 2023 ]
        Michael Chan, Li Zhu, Korosh Vatanparvar, Migyeong Gwak, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Estimating SpO2 with Deep Oxygen Desaturations from Facial Video Under Various Lighting Conditions: A Feasibility Study"
        The 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2023.

      [ EMBC 2023 ]
        Korosh Vatanparvar, Jiyang Li, Migyeong Gwak, Li Zhu, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Enhanced Contactless Heart Rate Monitoring Using Camera with Motion Artifact Removal During Physical Activities"
        The 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2023.

      [ EMBC 2023 ]
        Migyeong Gwak, Korosh Vatanparvar, Li Zhu, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Contactless Monitoring of Respiratory Rate and Breathing Absence from Head Movements Using an RGB Camera"
        The 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2023.

      [ EMBC 2023 ]
        Yincheng Jin, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Knowing Your Breath: Respiration Rate Estimation using Earphones during activities"
        The 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2023.

      [ EMBC 2023 ]
        Mohsin Ahmed, Ebrahim Nemati, Nafiul Rashid, Maksim Shurpo, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Power Optimized Smartwatch-Earbuds Multimodal System for Monitoring Activities of Daily Living"
        The 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2023.

      [ EMBC 2023 ]
        Nafiul Rashid, Ebrahim Nemati, Mohsin Ahmed, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "MM-HAR: Multi-Modal Human Activity Recognition Using Consumer Smartwatch and Earbuds"
        The 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sydney, Australia, July 2023.

      [ ICASSP 2023 ]
        Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Mouth Breathing Detection Using Audio Captured Through Earbuds"
        The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023.

      [ ICASSP 2023 ]
        Michael Chan, Li Zhu, Korosh Vatanparvar, Hewon Jung, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Improving Heart Rate and Heart Rate Variability Estimation from Video through a HR-RR-tuned filter"
        The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023.

      [ ICASSP 2023 ]
        Nafiul Rashid, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "BreathIE: Estimating Breathing Inhale Exhale Ratio Using Motion Sensor Data from Consumer Earbuds"
        The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Rhodes Island, Greece, June 2023.

      [ CHI 2023 ]
        Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Mohsin Ahmed, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Remote Breathing Rate Tracking in Stationary Position Using the Motion and Acoustic Sensors of Earables"
        The 2023 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany, April 2023.

      [ BHI 2022 ]
        Bishal Lamichhane, Ebrahim Nemati, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "A Template Matching Based Cough Detection Algorithm Using IMU Data From Earbuds"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics, Ioannina, Greece, September 2022.

      [ BSN 2022 ]
        Jiyang Li, Korosh Vatanparvar, Li Zhu, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Enhancement of Remote PPG and Heart Rate Estimation with Optimal Signal Quality Index"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Ioannina, Greece, September 2022.

      [ BSN 2022 ]
        Zihan Wang, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Mohsin Ahmed, Ebrahim Nemati, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Real-Time Breathing Phase Detection Using Earbuds Microphone"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Ioannina, Greece, September 2022.

      [ BSN 2022 ]
        Mohsin Ahmed, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Zihan Wang, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Deep Audio Spectral Processing for Respiration Rate Estimation from Smart Commodity Earbuds"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Ioannina, Greece, September 2022.

      [ BSN 2022 ]
        Li Zhu, Korosh Vatanparvar, Migyeong Gwak, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Contactless SpO2 Detection from Face Using Consumer Camera"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Ioannina, Greece, September 2022.

      [ BSN 2022 ]
        Korosh Vatanparvar, Migyeong Gwak, Li Zhu, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Respiration Rate Estimation from Remote PPG via Camera in Presence of Non-Voluntary Artifacts"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Ioannina, Greece, September 2022.

      [ MobileHCI 2022 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Ahmed, Minh Dinh, Ebrahim Nemati, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "BreatheBuddy: Tracking Real-time Breathing Exercises for Automated Bio-feedback Using Commodity Earbuds"
        The 24th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Vancouver, Canada, September 2022.

      [ EMBC 2022 ]
        Wenchuan Wei, Korosh Vatanparvar, Li Zhu, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Remote Photoplethysmography and Heart Rate Estimation by Dynamic Region of Interest Tracking"
        The 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2022.

      [ EMBC 2022 ]
        Migyeong Gwak, Korosh Vatanparvar, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Motion-Based Respiratory Rate Estimation with Motion Artifact Removal Using Video of Face and Upper Body"
        The 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2022.

      [ EMBC 2022 ]
        Mohsin Ahmed, Korosh Vatanparvar, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Deep Multivariate Domain Translation for Device Invariant Pulmonary Patient Identification from Cough and Speech Sounds"
        The 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2022.

      [ EMBC 2022 ]
        Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Keum San Chun and Jilong Kuang
        "Utilizing Deep Learning on Limited Mobile Speech Recordings for Detection of Obstructive Pulmonary Disease"
        The 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2022.

      [ EMBC 2022 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Xuhai Xu, Viswam Nathan, Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Ahmed, Dan McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang, Trevor Cowell, Julia Moore, Wendy Mendes and Jun Alex Gao
        "Detecting Physiological Responses Using Multimodal Earbud Sensors"
        The 44th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2022.

      [ ICASSP 2022 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Xuhai Xu, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Dan McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "UbiLung: Multi-modal Passive-based Lung Health Assessment"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Singapore, May 2022.

      [ ICASSP 2022 ]
        Shibo Zhang, Ebrahim Nemati, Minh Dinh, Nathan Folkman, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang, Nabil Alshurafa and Jun Alex Gao
        "CoughTrigger: Earbuds IMU-based Cough Detection Activator using an Energy-efficient Sensitivity-prioritized Time Series Classifier"
        The 2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Singapore, May 2022.

      [ EMBC 2021 ]
        Wenchuan Wei, Keiko Kurita, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Real-Time Limb Motion Tracking with a Single IMU Sensor for Physical Therapy Exercises"
        The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2021.

      [ EMBC 2021 ]
        Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Dan McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "SpeechSpiro: Lung Function Assessment from Speech Pattern as an Alternative to Spirometry for Mobile Health Tracking"
        The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2021.

      [ EMBC 2021 ]
        Mohsin Ahmed, Li Zhu, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Device Invariant Deep Neural Networks for Pulmonary Audio Event Detection Across Mobile and Wearable Devices"
        The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2021.

      [ EMBC 2021 ]
        Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Mohsin Ahmed, Ebrahim Nemati, Minh Dinh, Nathan Folkman, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "RRMonitor: A Resource-Aware End-to-End System for Continuous Monitoring of Respiration Rate Using Earable Devices"
        The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2021.

      [ EMBC 2021 ]
        Shibo Zhang, Ebrahim Nemati, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "A Novel Multi-Center Template-Matching Algorithm and Its Application for Cough Detection"
        The 43rd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, October 2021.

      [ BSN 2021 ]
        Wenchuan Wei, Keiko Kurita, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Real-Time 3D Arm Motion Tracking Using the 6-axis IMU Sensor of a Smartwatch"
        The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, July 2021.

      [ BSN 2021 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Ahmed, Ebrahim Nemati, Minh Dinh, Nathan Folkman, Md Mehedi Hasan, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Towards Motion-Aware Passive Resting Respiratory Rate Monitoring Using Earbuds"
        The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, July 2021.

      [ BSN 2021 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Shibo Zhang, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "CoughBuddy: Multi-Modal Cough Event Detection Using Earbuds Platform"
        The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, July 2021.

      [ BSN 2021 ]
        Hanbin Zhang, Li Zhu, Viswam Nathan, Jilong Kuang, Jacob Kim and Jun Alex Gao
        "Better Battery Life: Towards Energy-Efficient Smartwatch-based Atrial Fibrillation Detection in Ambulatory Free-living Environment"
        The 2021 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, July 2021.

      [ UbiComp 2021 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Bashima Islam, Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Ahmed, Mehedi Hasan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "BreathTrack: Detecting Regular Breathing Phases from Unannotated Acoustic Data Captured by a Smartphone"
        The 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 2021.

      [ UbiComp 2021 ]
        Hanbin Zhang, Li Zhu, Viswam Nathan, Jilong Kuang, Jacob Kim, Jun Alex Gao and Jeffrey Olgin
        "Towards Early Detection and Burden Estimation of Atrial Fibrillation in an Ambulatory Free-living Environment"
        The 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 2021.

      [ UbiComp 2021 ]
        Xuhai Xu, Ebrahim Nemati, Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Daniel McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Listen2Cough: Leveraging End-to-End Deep Learning Cough Detection Model to Enhance Lung Health Assessment Using Passively Sensed Audio"
        The 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, September 2021.

      [ ICMI 2020 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Mohsin Ahmed, Tousif Ahmed, Bashima Islam, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Daniel McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "BreathEasy: Assessing Respiratory Diseases Using Mobile Multimodal Sensors"
        The 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 2020.

      [ ICMI 2020 ]
        Tousif Ahmed, Mohsin Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Bashima Islam, Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan, Daniel McCaffrey, Jilong Kuang and Jun Alex Gao
        "Automated Time Synchronization of Multimodal Cough Events from Mobile Devices"
        The 22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Utrecht, the Netherlands, October 2020.

      [ MobileHCI 2020 ]
        Nazir Saleheen, Tousif Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Erin Blackstock and Jilong Kuang
        "Lung Function Estimation from a Monosyllabic Voice Segment Captured Using Smartphones"
        The 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Oldenburg, Germany, October 2020.

      [ EMBC 2020 ]
        Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "Adapting to Noise in Speech Obfuscation by Audio Profiling using Generative Models for Passive Health Monitoring"
        The 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2020.

      [ EMBC 2020 ]
        Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "CoughMatch – Subject Verification Using Cough for Personal Passive Health Monitoring"
        The 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2020.

      [ EMBC 2020 ]
        Vishwajith Ramesh, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "CoughGAN: Generating Synthetic Coughs that Improve Respiratory Disease Classification"
        The 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2020.

      [ EMBC 2020 ]
        Md Juber Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan and Jilong Kuang
        "Toward Early Severity Assessment of Obstructive Lung Disease Using Multi-Modal Wearable Sensor Data Fusion During Walking"
        The 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2020.

      [ EMBC 2020 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Md Juber Rahman, Erin Blackstock, Viswam Nathan, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "Estimation of the Lung Function Using Acoustic Features of the Voluntary Cough"
        The 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2020.

      [ EMBC 2020 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "A Comprehensive Approach for Classification of the Cough Type"
        The 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Montreal, Canada, July 2020.

      [ CHI 2020 ]
        Soujanya Chatterjee, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Nazir Saleheen, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "Assessing Severity of Pulmonary Obstruction from Respiration Phase-Based Wheeze Sensing Using Mobile Sensors"
        The 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honolulu, HI, April 2020.

      [ PerCom 2020 ] Best Industry Paper Award
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Tousif Ahmed, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Erin Blackstock and Jilong Kuang
        "ExhaleSense: Detecting High Fidelity Forced Exhalations to Estimate Lung Obstruction on Smartphones"
        The 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Austin, TX, March 2020.

      [ PerCom 2020 ]
        Keum San Chun, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Erin Blackstock and Jilong Kuang
        "Towards Passive Assessment of Pulmonary Function from Natural Speech Recorded Using a Mobile Phone"
        The 18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Austin, TX, March 2020.

      [ BIBM 2019 ]
        Viswam Nathan, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Korosh Vatanparvar, Ebrahim Nemati, Erin Blackstock and Jilong Kuang
        "Extraction of Voice Parameters from Continuous Running Speech for Pulmonary Disease Monitoring"
        The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, San Diego, CA, November 2019.

      [ AMBIENT 2019 ]
        Md Juber Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "Efficient Online Cough Detection with a Minimal Feature Set Using Smartphones for Automated Assessment of Pulmonary Patients"
        The 9th International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies, Porto, Portugal, September 2019.

      [ CML-IOT 2019 ]
        Soujanya Chatterjee, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "mLung++: Automated Characterization of Abnormal Lung Sounds in Pulmonary Patients using Multimodal Mobile Sensors"
        The 2019 UbiComp Workshop on Continual and Multimodal Learning for Internet of Things, London, UK, September 2019.

      [ CHASE 2019 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "Comprehensive Approach for Cough Type Detection: Importance of Rigorous Annotation and A Colorful Feature-Set"
        The 4th IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, Washington, D.C., September 2019.

      [ CHASE 2019 ]
        Md Juber Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "Automated Assessment of Pulmonary Patients using Heart Rate Variability from Everyday Wearables"
        The 4th IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies, Washington, D.C., September 2019.

      [ INTERSPEECH 2019 ]
        Mohsin Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "DeepLung: Smartphone Convolutional Neural Network-based Inference of Lung Anomalies for Pulmonary Patients"
        The 20th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, Graz, Austria, September 2019.

      [ PervasiveHealth 2019 ]
        Soujanya Chatterjee, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati and Jilong Kuang
        "WheezeD: Respiration Phase Based Wheeze Detection Using Acoustic Data From Pulmonary Patients Under Attack"
        The 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Trento, Italy, May 2019.

      [ PervasiveHealth 2019 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Ebrahim Nemati, Korosh Vatanparvar, Mohsin Ahmed and Jilong Kuang
        "Towards Reliable and Accurate Data Collection and Annotation to Extract Pulmonary Biomarkers using Mobile Sensors"
        The 13th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, Trento, Italy, May 2019.

      [ BSN 2019 ] Best Poster Award
        Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati and Jilong Kuang
        "Assessment of Chronic Pulmonary Disease Patients Using Biomarkers from Natural Speech Recorded by Mobile Devices"
        The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Chicago, IL, May 2019.

      [ BSN 2019 ]
        Mohsin Ahmed, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Ebrahim Nemati, Korosh Vatanparvar and Jilong Kuang
        "mLung: Privacy-Preserving Naturally Windowed Lung Activity Detection for Pulmonary Patients"
        The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Chicago, IL, May 2019.

      [ BSN 2019 ]
        Korosh Vatanparvar, Viswam Nathan, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "A Generative Model for Speech Segmentation and Obfuscation for Remote Health Monitoring"
        The 2019 IEEE International Conference on Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, Chicago, IL, May 2019.

      [ BIBM 2018 ]
        Sujee Lee, Ebrahim Nemati and Jilong Kuang
        "Configurable Pulmonary-Tuned Privacy Preservation Algorithm for Mobile Devices"
        The 2018 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Madrid, Spain, December 2018.

      [ ICMLA 2018 ]
        Qinghan Xue, Xiaoran Wang, Samuel Meehan, Jilong Kuang, Jun Alex Gao and Mooi Choo Chuah
        "Recurrent Neural Networks-based Obesity Status Prediction Using Activity Data"
        The 17th IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications, Orlando, FL, December 2018.

      [ BODYNETS 2018 ]
        Md Mahbubur Rahman, Ebrahim Nemati, Viswam Nathan and Jilong Kuang
        "InstantRR: Instantaneous Respiratory Rate Estimation on Context-aware Mobile Devices"
        The 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks, Oulu, Finland, October 2018.

      [ BODYNETS 2018 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Viswam Nathan and Jilong Kuang
        "Private Audio-Based Cough Sensing for In-Home Pulmonary Assessment using Mobile Devices"
        The 13th EAI International Conference on Body Area Networks, Oulu, Finland, October 2018.

      [ ICDATA 2018 ]
        Xiaoran Wang, Leonardo Jimenez Rodriguez and Jilong Kuang
        "Modeling Topics on Open Source Apache Spark Repositories"
        The 14th International Conference on Data Science, Las Vegas, NV, July 2018.

      [ BigData Congress 2018 ]
        Leonardo Jimenez Rodriguez, Xiaoran Wang and Jilong Kuang
        "Insights on Apache Spark Usage by Mining Stack Overflow Questions"
        The 2018 IEEE 7th International Congress on Big Data, San Francisco, CA, July 2018.

      [ LSC 2017 ]
        Daniyal Liaqat, Ebrahim Nemati, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "A Method for Preserving Privacy During Audio Recordings by Filtering Speech"
        The 1st IEEE Life Sciences Conference, Sydney, Australia, December 2017.

      [ HI-POCT 2017 ]
        Ebrahim Nemati, Daniyal Liaqat, Md Mahbubur Rahman and Jilong Kuang
        "A Novel Algorithm for Activity State Recognition Using Smartwatch Data"
        The IEEE-NIH 2017 Special Topics Conference on Healthcare Innovations and Point-of-Care Technologies, Bethesda, MD, November 2017.

      [ BigData 2015 ]
        Jilong Kuang, Daniel Waddington and Changhui Lin
        "Techniques for Fast and Scalable Time Series Traffic Generation"
        The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Big Data, Santa Clara, CA, October 2015.

      [ ICME 2014 ]
        Dung Vu, Jilong Kuang and Laxmi Bhuyan
        "A Scalable Hash Scheduler for Decoding of Multiple H.264/AVC Streams on Multi-core"
        The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Chengdu, China, July 2014.

      [ ICITST 2013 ]
        Ahmed Osama Fathy Atya and Jilong Kuang
        "RUFC: A Flexible Framework For Reliable UDP With Flow Control"
        The 8th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, London, UK, December 2013.

      [ UCC 2013 ]
        Daniel Waddington, Juan Colmenares, Jilong Kuang and Fengguang Song
        "KV-Cache: A Scalable High-Performance Web-Object Cache for Manycore"
        The 6th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dresden, Germany, December 2013.

      [ Euro-Par 2013 ]
        Jilong Kuang, Daniel Waddington and Chen Tian
        "Towards A Scalable L4 Microkernel Personality for Multicore Processors"
        The 19th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Aachen, Germany, August 2013.

      [ COMPSAC 2012 ]
        Chen Tian, Daniel Waddington and Jilong Kuang
        "A Scalable Physical Memory Allocation Scheme For L4 Microkernel"
        The 36th Annual IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference (Industry Track), Izmir, Turkey, July 2012.

      [ ICME 2012 ]
        Dung Vu, Jilong Kuang and Laxmi Bhuyan
        "An Adaptive Dynamic Scheduling Scheme for H.264/AVC Decoding on Multicore Architecture"
        The 2012 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo, Melbourne, Australia, July 2012.

      [ DAC 2012 ]
        Jilong Kuang, Laxmi Bhuyan and Raymond Klefstad
        "Traffic-aware Power Optimization for Network Applications on Multicore Servers"
        The 49th Design Automation Conference, San Francisco, CA, June 2012.

      [ ANCS 2011 ]
        Jilong Kuang and Laxmi Bhuyan
        "Predictive Model-based Thermal Management for Network Applications"
        The 7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, Brooklyn, NY, October 2011.

      [ ANCS 2011 ]
        Jilong Kuang, Laxmi Bhuyan, Haiyong Xie and Danhua Guo
        "E-AHRW: An Energy-efficient Adaptive Hash Scheduler for Stream Processing on Multi-core Servers"
        The 7th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, Brooklyn, NY, October 2011.

      [ ANCS 2010 ]
        Jilong Kuang, Danhua Guo and Laxmi Bhuyan
        "Power Optimization for Multimedia Transcoding on Multicore Servers"
        The 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems, La Jolla, CA, October 2010.

      [ DAC 2010 ]
        Jilong Kuang and Laxmi Bhuyan
        "LATA: A Latency and Throughput-Aware Packet Processing System"
        The 47th Design Automation Conference, Anaheim, CA, June 2010.

      [ INFOCOM 2010 ]
        Jilong Kuang and Laxmi Bhuyan
        "Optimizing Throughput and Latency under Given Power Budget for Network Packet Processing"
        The 29th IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, San Diego, CA, March 2010.
Patents
    [ US 10674967B2 ]
      Mahbubur Rahman, Jilong Kuang, Daniyal Liaqat, Jun Gao and Nasson Boroumand
      "Estimating Body Composition on a Mobile Device"
      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

    [ US 20140282589 ]
      Jilong Kuang, Daniel Waddington and Chen Tian
      "Quota-based Adaptive Resource Balancing in a Scalable Heap Allocator for Multithreaded Applications"
      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

    [ US 20140337459 ]
      Jilong Kuang, Daniel Waddington and Juan Colmenares
      "Caching Architecture for Packet-form In-memory Object Caching"
      Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Professional Activities
  • Reviewed papers for UCC 2015 (The 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing)
  • Reviewed papers for ISORC 2015 (The 18th IEEE Symposium On Real-time Computing)
  • Reviewed papers for UCC 2014 (The 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing)
  • Reviewed papers for NPC 2014 (The 11th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing)
  • Reviewed papers for ICC 2014 (The 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications)
  • Reviewed papers for INFOCOM 2013 (The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications)
  • Reviewed papers for ISSRE 2012 (The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering)
  • External reviewer for DAC 2012 (The 49th Design Automation Conference)
  • External reviewer for DAC 2011 (The 48th Design Automation Conference)
  • Reviewed papers for HPCA 2010 (The 16th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture)
  • Reviewed papers for ANCS 2010 (The 6th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architecture for Networking and Communications Systems)
  • Reviewed papers for TPDS (IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems)
  • Reviewed papers for TC (IEEE Transactions on Computers)
  • Reviewed papers for ToN (IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking)
  • Reviewed papers for Parallel Computing (ELSEVIER Journal)
  • Reviewed papers for Computer Networks (ELSEVIER Journal)
  • Reviewed papers for IJAC (International Journal of Automation and Computing)
  • Reviewed papers for Sensors (MDPI Open Access Journal)
  • Reviewed papers for China Communications
  • ACM/IEEE member
Internships
Graduate Courses
    • CS204--Advanced Computer Networks
    • CS257--Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing
    • CS218--Design and Analysis of Algorithms
    • CS240--Network Routing
    • CS236--Database Management Systems
    • CS239--Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks
    • CS203--Advanced Computer Architecture
    • CS253--Distributed Systems
    • CS213--Parallel Process Architectures
    • CS260--Seminar in Computer Science (Networking)
    • CS205--Artificial Intelligence
    • CS260--Seminar in Computer Science (Architecture)
    • CS260--Seminar in Computer Science (Compiler)
    • CS270--Specific Topics in Advanced Computer Science (Architecture)
    • EE180--Technical Communications
    • CS302--Apprentice Teaching
    • CS287--Colloquium in Computer Science
Teaching
    • CS10--Introduction to CS for Sci, Math & Engr 1 (07Fall, 08Winter, 08Spring)
    • CS8--Introduction to Computing (06Fall, 07Winter, 07Spring, 07Summer)
Other Stuff


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