Scholar
Yang Xiao
Google Scholar ID: BiVROyUAAAAJ
University of Kentucky
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,077
H-index
16
i10-index
20
Publications
20
Co-authors
10
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Recipient of the NSF CAREER Award in 2025 for enhancing operational resilience of networked real-time systems
- Published extensively in top-tier venues: NDSS 2025 (federated learning model inversion attacks), IEEE IoT Journal (DEXO, CANShield), NDSS 2024 (AAKA), ESORICS 2023 (Bijack), ACM WiSec 2023 (MS-PTP), ASIACCS 2024 (TriSAS)
- Serves on program committees for leading conferences including NDSS 2026, ACSAC 2024/2025, MILCOM 2024/2025, and IEEE INFOCOM 2024/2025
- Mentored student Ifteher to receive the Lighthouse Beacon Foundation Endowment Graduate Fellow award in 2024
- Featured in media outlets such as UKNow, Lex 18 (NBC), and Fox 56 News for research on mobile security and anti-tracking
Background
- Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky
- Director of the Secure Decentralized Systems Lab (SDSL)
- Research focuses on building secure, usable communication and computing paradigms that minimize reliance on trusted third parties
- Develops security and privacy mechanisms for decentralized applications using techniques from distributed computing, cryptography, protocol design, and new hardware
- Research interests include: decentralized systems (consensus protocol security/usability, decentralized identity and access management), autonomous IoT (secure communication, security for collaborative autonomy, distributed machine learning), and mobile networks (subscriber privacy, scam prevention, authentication, spectrum access management)
