Xing Gao @ University of Delaware

Assistant Professor

Department of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware

Office: Smith Hall 448
Email: xgao [at] udel.edu

Research Interests

Security; Cloud Computing; Mobile Computing, Blockchain and Decentralized Applications.

We have openings for self-motivated students who are interested in doing security research. If you are interested, please email me your CV and other related materials.

Selected and Recent Publications

[CCS'22] "Ready Raider One: Exploring the Misuse of Cloud Gaming Services"
[USENIX-SEC'22] "Exploring the Unchartered Space of Container Registry Typosquatting"
[DSN'22] "TORPEDO: A Fuzzing Framework for Discovering Adversarial Container Workloads"
[S&P'22] "Time-Print: Authenticating USB Flash Drives with Novel Timing Fingerprints"
[ACSAC'21] "An Exploration of ARM System-Level Cache and GPU Side Channels"
[USENIX-SEC'21] "Charger-Surfing: Exploiting a Power Line Side-Channel for Smartphone Information Leakage"
[DSN'21] "CloudSkulk: A Nested Virtual Machine Based Rootkit and Its Detection"
[AsiaCCS'21] "Red Alert for Power Leakage: Exploiting Intel RAPL-Induced Side Channels"
[WWW'21] "An Investigation of Identity-Account Inconsistency in Single Sign-On"
[CVPR'20] "Evade Deep Image Retrieval by Stashing Private Images in the Hash Space"
[CCS'19] "Houdini’s Escape: Breaking the Resource Rein of Linux Control Groups"
[MM'19] "Close the Gap between Deep Learning and Mobile Intelligence by Incorporating Training in the Loop"
[NDSS'18] "Reduced Cooling Redundancy: A New Security Vulnerability in a Hot Data Center"
[DSN'17] "ContainerLeaks: Emerging Security Threats of Information Leakages in Container Clouds"
[DSN'17] "Detecting Passive Cheats in Online Games via Performance-Skillfulness Inconsistency"
[ICDCS'17] "E-Android: A New Energy Profiling Tool for Smartphones"

Professional Services

TPC Member: Middleware'22, ICDCS'22, ICICS'21, NSS'20, ICICS'20, ICICS'19.
Journal Reviewer: Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Transactions on Networking, Transactions on Cloud Computing, Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Transactions on Sensor Network, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Computer Networks.

Teaching

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

Awards

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