Publication

Selected Publications (Click for Full List)

Note: Underlined authors are students advised by Dr. Song, * are undergraduate students. 

2026:

• Zheng Song, Jack Wagner, Chen Wang, Mir Abidi, Traven Yarbro, Sabyasachi Dutta, ``Designing an AI4ALL Course for Establishing AI Literacy as a Baseline Skill for All University Graduates", ASEE'26

• Khairul Mottakin, Xiao Zhang, and Zheng Song, ``BYOD-Gait: Spoofing Proof Gait Authentication with User-Owned Device", ICC'26 

• Summit Shrestha, Zheng Song, Eli Tilevich, Zhengquan Li, Christine Julien, and Probir Roy, "ScaleWave: Breaking Through Resource Bottlenecks to Scale Up Serverless Computing at the Edge", IEEE PERCOM'26 

2025: 

• Zhengquan Li, and Zheng Song, "Tailored Homogeneous Service Composition at Runtime to Enhance User-Perceived Performance", IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 2025 

• Zhengquan Li, Myungjin Lee, Zheng Song, "Always-On, Always-Mine: Federated Recommendation Systems on Personal Home Routers," ACM/IFIP Middlware'25 

• Eejoy Lim*, Zheng Song, ``Measuring the Accuracy of Machine Learning Services with Minimum Labeling Efforts", SSE'25

• Zheng Song, Summit Shrestha, Zhengquan Li, Khairul Mottakin, and Qiang Zhu, ``When Project-Based Learning Meets Edge Computing: an Experience Report", FIE'25

• Syed Salauddin Mohammad Tariq, Ali Al Zein, Soumya Sripad Vaidya, Arati Khanolkar, Zheng Song and Probir Roy, ``Efficient Serverless Cold Start: Reducing Library Loading Overhead by Profile-guided Optimization", IEEE ICDCS'25 

2024: 

• Zhengquan Li, Long Cheng, and Zheng Song, ``Client-Specific Homogeneous Service Composition at Runtime for QoS-Critical Tasks", ICSOC'24 

• Song Liao, Long Cheng, Xiapu Luo, Zheng Song, Haipeng Cai, Daphne Yao, and Hongxin Hu, ``A First Look at Security and Privacy Risks in the RapidAPI Ecosystem", ACM CCS'24 

• Siddhi Baravkar, Olivia Pellegrini*, Pratiksha Gaikwad, Eli Tilevich, and Zheng Song, ``How Can I Be of Service?''---A Comprehensive Analysis of Web Service Integration Practices, IEEE ICWS'24 

• Khairul Mottakin, Jinhua Guo, Zheng Song, ``Cover More with Less: Eliminating Blind Spots for Surveillance Camera via Passive WiFi Sensing", ICPADS'24

• Zhengquan Li, Summit Shrestha, Zheng Song, Eli Tilevich, "Edge Cache on WiFi Access Points: Millisecond-Level App Latency Almost for Free", IEEE ICDCS'24 Distinguished Paper Award

• Venkata Alekhya Kusam, Larnell Moore*, Summit Shrestha, Zheng Song , Jin Lu , Qiang Zhu, "Generative-AI Assisted Feedback Provisioning for Project-based Learning in CS Courses", ASEE'24 (the first three authors contributed equally to this paper).  

2023 and before:

• Zhengquan Li, Zheng Song, ``Poster: Service Polymorphism: Serving Mobile Users Dissimilarly to Improve Performance for Service-Oriented Applications", NSDI'23 

• Ziba Parsons, Fei Dou, Houyi Du, Zheng Song, Jin Lu, "Mobilizing Personalized Federated Learning via Random Walk Stochastic ADMM", NeurIPS'23 

• Zheng "Jason" Song and Eli Tilevich, "Win with What You Have: QoS-Consistent Edge Services with Unreliable and Dynamic Resources," Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2020), July 2020

• Zheng "Jason" Song and Eli Tilevich, "Equivalence-Enhanced Microservice Workflow Orchestration to Efficiently Increase Reliability" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services (IEEE ICWS 2019), July 2019

• Zheng "Jason" Song and Eli Tilevich, "A Programming Model for Reliable and Efficient Edge-Based Execution Under Resource Variability," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (IEEE EDGE 2019), July 2019.  Best Paper Award

• Zheng Song and Eli Tilevich, "PMDC: Programmable Mobile Device Clouds for Convenient and Efficient Service Provisioning," Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (IEEE Cloud 2018), July 2018.  

• Song, Zheng Jason, Jing Pu, Junjie Cheng, and Eli Tilevich. "Performance and programming effort trade-offs of Android persistence frameworks." Journal of Systems and Software 146 (2018): 99-111.