Assistant Professor

X-Lab, Department of Computer and Information Sciences
Joint with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Delaware

Office: 316b FinTech, STAR Campus
Email: xgao [at] udel.edu
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Research Interests

Selected and Recent Publications

Professional Services

  • Registration Chair:
    - ACM/IEEE Symposium on Edge Computing, 2023.
  • Publicity Co-Chairs:
    - IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security, 2022.
  • TPC Member:
    - ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2024.
    - The ACM Web Conference, 2024.
    - IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2024.
    - IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, 2023.
    - ACM/IFIP International Middleware Conference, 2022.
    - IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2022.
    - International Conference on Information and Communications Security, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019.
    - International Conference on Network and System Security, 2020.
  • Journal Reviewer:
    - IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.
    - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
    - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing.
    - IEEE Transactions on Services Computing.
    - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
    - ACM Transactions on Sensor Network.
    - IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Teaching

  • CISC 464/664 Introduction to Network Security – Spring 2022, 2024.
  • CISC 450 / CPEG 419 Computer Networks I – Spring 2023, 2021, 2024.
  • CISC 890 Colloquium: Computer Science – Fall 2023.
  • CISC 849 Topics in Computer Applications – Fall 2022.
  • CISC 449/649 Topics in Computer Applications - Internet Security with Mobile and IoT Devices – Fall 2022, 2021, 2020.
  • COMP 7/8311 Advanced Computer Networks – Spring 2020.
  • COMP 3825 Networking and Information Assurance – Fall 2019, 2018.
  • COMP 7/8327 Network and Internet Security – Spring 2019.

Awards

  • NSF CRII Award, 2020.
  • NDSS Distinguished Poster Award, 2016.