Professor of Computer Science
Networking, systems, and security.
Appointments and Affiliations
- Professor of Computer Science
- Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Science in Economics and Computation Program
- Director Of Graduate Studies MS Program in the Department of Computer Science
Contact Information
- Office Location: LSRC-D336, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: +1 919 660 6536
- Email Address: xiaowei.yang@duke.edu
- Websites:
Education
- B.S.E. Tsinghua University (China), 1996
- Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2009
Courses Taught
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 356: Computer Network Architecture
- COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
- COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
- COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
- COMPSCI 356: Computer Network Architecture
- COMPSCI 210D: Introduction to Computer Systems
Representative Publications
- Zhou, M., X. Zhang, S. Hao, X. Yang, J. Zheng, G. Chen, and W. Dou. “Regional IP Anycast: Deployments, Performance, and Potentials.” In SIGCOMM 2023 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference, 917–31, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1145/3603269.3604846.
- Chen, J., Y. Wu, S. Lin, Y. Xu, X. Kong, T. Anderson, M. Lentz, X. Yang, and D. Zhuo. “Remote Procedure Call as a Managed System Service.” In Proceedings of the 20th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2023, 141–59, 2023.
- Xin, R., S. Lin, and X. Yang. “Quantifying User Password Exposure to Third-Party CDNs.” In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 13882 LNCS:652–68, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28486-1_27.
- Lin, S., R. Xin, A. Goel, and X. Yang. “InviCloak: An End-to-End Approach to Privacy and Performance in Web Content Distribution.” In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 1947–61, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/3548606.3559336.
- Hu, J., Z. Zhou, and X. Yang. “Characterizing Physical-Layer Transmission Errors in Cable Broadband Networks.” In Proceedings of the 19th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation, NSDI 2022, 845–59, 2022.