Dr. Yang Xiao
Professor
Contact
- 3054 Cyber Hall
- phone (205) 348-4038
- fax (205) 348-6959
Research Areas
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 is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Al, USA. He directed 20+ doctoral dissertations; supervised 20+ M.S. theses/projects; published 300+ SCI-indexed journal papers (including 70+ IEEE/ACM Transactions) and over 300+ conference papers with 29687+ citations and h-index=86 by Google Scholar; is ranked #188 and #481 in the USA (#362 and #808 in the world) by Research.com among Best Scientists for 2024 in EEE and CS, respectively; and identified as one of Top 2% Scientists in the world by the scientists of Stanford University.
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 journals, including the IEEE JSAC in 2022-2023, IEEE TNSE in 2021, IEEE TGCN 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 / Associate Editor for 20+ international journals, including 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 TPC for 300+ conferences. He received the IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award in 2022 and 2023.
Affiliated Areas
Computer Science
Selected Publications
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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)