Lingkun Kong
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Lingkun Kong

Research Scientist @ Meta Reality Labs

// current work
Building RAG systems for Meta AI glasses and developing auto evaluation solutions to check the factuality of glass responses.

// background
Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rice University, advised by Konstantinos Mamouras. Worked on the design of programming language and the development of ASIC compiler. Prior experience in network systems design.

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email: klk[at]meta[dot]com location: 100 Binney St, FL8, Cambridge, MA 02142

Education

2018.08 — 2023.08
Rice University
Ph.D., Computer Science
Thesis: Language Support for Real-time Data Processing [pdf]
2017.06 — 2017.08
Cornell University
Visiting Student, Computer Science
2014.09 — 2018.06
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
B.Sc., Computer Science & Zhiyuan College

Publications

IEEE Comp Society 2025
KDD Cup CRAG Competition: Systems, Findings and Learnings
X. Yang, Y. Xu, K. Sun, J. Wang, L. Kong, W. Yih, X. Dong
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OOPSLA 2024
HybridSA: GPU Acceleration of Multi-pattern Regex Matching using Bit Parallelism
A. Le Glaunec, L. Kong, K. Mamouras
link pdf
NeurIPS 2024
CRAG — Comprehensive RAG Benchmark
X. Yang, K. Sun, H. Xin, Y. Sun, N. Bhalla, X. Chen, S. Choudhary, R. Gui, Z. Jiang, Z. Jiang, L. Kong, B. Moran, J. Wang, Y. Xu, A. Yan, C. Yang, E. Yuan, H. Zha, N. Tang, L. Chen, N. Scheffer, Y. Liu, N. Shah, R. Wanga, A. Kumar, W. Yih, X. Dong
link code pdf
ASPLOS 2024
BVAP: Energy and Memory Efficient Automata Processing for Regular Expressions with Bounded Repetitions
Z. Wen, L. Kong, A. Le Glaunec, K. Mamouras, K. Yang
link pdf
MICRO 2023
CASA: An Energy-Efficient and High-Speed CAM-based SMEM Seeding Accelerator for Genome Alignment
Y. Huang, L. Kong, D. Chen, Z. Chen, X. Kong, J. Zhu, K. Mamouras, S. Wei, K. Yang, L. Liu
link pdf
OOPSLA 2023
Regular Expression Matching Using Bit Vector Automata
A. Le Glaunec, L. Kong, K. Mamouras
link pdf
PLDI 2022
Software-Hardware Codesign for Efficient In-Memory Regular Pattern Matching
L. Kong, Q. Yu, A. Chattopadhyay, A. Le Glaunec, Y. Huang, K. Mamouras, K. Yang
link pdf talk code
OOPSLA 2020
StreamQL: A Query Language for Processing Streaming Time Series
L. Kong, K. Mamouras
link pdf talk code
OGHPC 2020
StreamQL: A Query Language for Efficient Data Stream Processing
L. Kong, K. Mamouras
poster
IEEE HotICN 2018
Blockchain-based Crowd-sensing System
J. Huang, L. Kong, L. Kong, Z. Liu, Z. Liu, G. Chen
link pdf code
IEEE/ACM ToN 2018
FINE: A Framework for Distributed Learning on Incomplete Observations for Heterogeneous Crowdsensing Networks
L. Fu, S. Ma, L. Kong, S. Shi, X. Wang
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Teaching

COMP 682 — Algorithms
TA · Spring 2020 · Rice University
COMP 481/581 — Automata, Formal Languages, and Computability
TA · Fall 2019 · Rice University
COMP 411/511 — Principles of Programming Languages
TA · Spring 2019 · Rice University
CS 334 — Computer Organization Lab
TA · Spring 2016 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University
CS 499 — Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science
TA · Spring 2017 · Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Scholarships & Awards

National Scholarship
Ministry of Education of China
2015, 2017
Scholarship of Outstanding Undergraduates
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2017
Zhiyuan Honorary Scholarship
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2015, 2016, 2017
Junzheng Scholar
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2017
Merit Student
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
2015

Beyond Work

// table_tennis
Former table tennis athlete. In 2016, helped Shanghai Jiao Tong University win its first championship in Shanghai. Now an amateur player with USATT rating ~2000. In 2022, finished top 16 in men's singles at USA college table tennis national championships.
// hobbies
Playing basketball is also one of my hobbies.