He is the director of Parallel Architecture, System, and Algorithm Lab (PASA). Previously (2011-2014), he was a research scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Before that, he earned his PhD in computer science from Virginia Tech. Dong received a CAREER Award from U.S. National Science Foundation in 2016, a Berkeley Lab University Faculty Fellowship in 2016, and an ORNL/CSMD Distinguished Contributor Award in 2013. His paper in SC'14 was nominated as the best student paper. He is also the lead PI for NVIDIA CUDA Research Center at UC Merced.