Brief Biography

Dr. Fanxin Kong is a tenure-track assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Notre Dame. Before that, he worked as a tenure-track assistant professor at Syracuse University and as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Insup Lee in the PRECISE Center at University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science at McGill University under the guidance of Prof. Xue Liu.

Dr. Kong’s research addresses security, resilience, real-time, and resource-efficiency for Cyber-Physical Systems, through techniques of AI/machine learning, formal methods, control, optimization and algorithm design, with applications to autonomous systems such as self-driving cars and drones. He has published over 65 research papers at highly reputable venues including RTSS, RTAS, ICCPS, EMSOFT, IoTDI, DAC, etc, various IEEE/ACM Transactions, and books/book chapters. His research is supported by NSF, AFRL, AFOSR and DARPA, and receives multiple awards.

Dr. Kong is serving as the Information Director of ACM Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems (SIGBED). He has served as general chair, session chairs and program committee members for workshops and conferences such as ICCPS, RTSS, RTAS, EMSOFT, DAC, ACM e-Energy, IGSC, ISORC, SMARTCOMP, etc. He also served as reviewers for various IEEE/ACM Transactions.