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Dr. Yang Xiao

Professor

Contact

  • 3054 Cyber Hall
  • phone (205) 348-4038
  • fax (205) 348-6959
  • Email

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering, Jun. 2001, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA.
  • M.S. in Computer Science, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA, Aug. 2000.
  • M.S. in Computational Mathematics, concentrating on Computer Graphics, in Oct. 1991, Jilin University, China.
  • B.S. in Computational Mathematics and its Application Software, in Feb. 1989. Jilin University, China.

Yang Xiao (Fellow, IEEE) is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. He directed over 20 doctoral dissertations and supervised over 20 M.S. theses/projects. He has published over 300 Science Citation Index (SCI)-indexed journal papers (including over 70 IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS) and 300 Engineering Index (EI)-indexed refereed conference papers and book chapters related to these research areas.

He was a Voting Member of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group from 2001 to 2004, involving the IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standardization work. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, AIIA, and ACIS. He served as a Guest Editor over 35 times for different international journals, including the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC) in 2022-2023, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NETWORK SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (TNSE) in 2021, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GREEN COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING in 2021, IEEE Network in 2007, IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS in 2006 and 2021, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine in 2021, and MONET in 2008. He also serves as the Editor-in-Chief of CPS Journal, IJSNet, and IJSN. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member or an Associate Editor for 20 international journals, including the IEEE TNSE since 2022, IEEE TYB since 2020, IEEE TMSC: SYSTEMS from 2014 to 2015, IEEE TVT from 2007 to 2009, and IEEE COMST from 2007 to 2014. He serves/served as a Member of Technical Program Committee for more than 300 conferences. He received the IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award in 2022 and 2023.

Affiliated Areas
Computer Science

Selected Publications

  • J. Li, Y. Xiao, S. Li, and T Li, “Designing Accountable IoT Systems to Overcome IoT Storage Limitation,” Computers & Security, Vol. 148, January, 2025, Paper ID: 104118, DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.104118

  • J. Li, Y. Xiao, and T. Li, “Accountability in Internet of Things Networks,” IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 11, No. 21, pp. 35580-35595, 1 Nov.1, 2024, DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2024.3436645.

  • S. Asiri, Y. Xiao, S. Alzahrani, and T. Li, “PhishingRTDS: A Real-time Detection System for Phishing Attacks Using a Deep Learning Model,” Computers & Security, Vol. 141, June, 2024, Paper ID: 103843, DOI: 10.1016/j.cose.2024.103843.

  • C. Pei, Y. Xiao, W. Liang, X. Han and W. Wang, “Canonical Variate Analysis for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks in Alternating Current State Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 3332-3345, July-Aug. 2024, DOI: 10.1109/TNSE.2024.3370649.

  • H. Addeen, Y. Xiao and T. Li, “A CVAE-Based Anomaly Detection Algorithm for Cyber Physical Attacks for Water Distribution Systems,” IEEE Access, Vol. 12, pp. 48321-48334, 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3384295.

Awards and Honors

  • Fellow of IEEE (FIEEE)
  • Fellow of IET (FIET)
  • Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (FAAIA)
  • Fellow of International Artificial Intelligence Industry Alliance (FAIIA) and Fellow of Asia Computational Intelligence Society (FACIS)
  • Excellent Editor Award 2022 and 2023 for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE)

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Dr. Yang Xiao

Computer science professor named IEEE Fellow

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The National Science Foundation selected seven University of Alabama students and one alumna for its Graduate Research Fellowship Program from among more than 13,000 applicants.

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UA Honors Outstanding Graduate Students in 2013

The University of Alabama Graduate School has announced the recipients of the 2013 Outstanding Graduate Student awards, to be presented during UA Honors Week, April 1–5.

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