Hong Ong's Biosketch

Hong Ong is a research staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Hong earned his Ph.D. from the University of Portsmouth, UK in 2004, under the supervision of Professor Mark Baker . His research interests are in the areas of operating systems, middleware for parallel and distributed systems, and system-level performance evaluation.

Hong has significant in depth working knowledge in technologies for clusters and the Grid. Prior to joining ORNL, he worked on machines evaluation where he studied factors that affect large-scale scientific applications performance and analyzed the interaction between network protocols and applications. He has additionally worked on a number of grid-related projects, including the UK e-Science OGSA Testbed project and work evaluating security and firewall issues.

Hong currently focus on several Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science projects including the scalable operating systems, system virtualization, and dependability middleware.

Hong also serves on various program committees of international conferences. He can be reached at http://www.hongong.org/