
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Appointments and Affiliations
- Associate Professor of Computer Science
Contact Information
- Office Location: Lsrc-D336, Durham, NC 27708
- Office Phone: (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
- COMPSCI 356: Computer Network Architecture
- COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
- COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
- COMPSCI 590: Advanced Topics in Computer Science
- ECE 356: Computer Network Architecture
- ECE 590: Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
- ECE 899: Special Readings in Electrical Engineering
Representative Publications
- 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.
- Zhang, X., T. Sen, Z. Zhang, T. April, B. Chandrasekaran, D. Choffnes, B. M. Maggs, H. Shen, R. K. Sitaraman, and X. Yang. “AnyOpt: Predicting and optimizing IP Anycast performance.” In Sigcomm 2021 Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm 2021 Conference, 447–62, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1145/3452296.3472935.
- Zhou, Z., and X. Yang. “Speeding Up TCP with Selective Loss Prevention.” In Proceedings International Conference on Network Protocols, Icnp, Vol. 2021-November, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP52444.2021.9651983.
- Li, A., X. Yang, S. Kandula, and M. Zhang. “CloudCmp: Shopping for a cloud made easy.” In 2nd Usenix Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, Hotcloud 2010, 2020.