Bio

Dr. Yang Xiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Kentucky. He is the Principal Investigator of Secure Decentralized Systems Lab (SDSL) and serves as the Co-Director of the Cybersecurity Certificate Program in the CS department. Yang's research area is network and information security, focusing on the security and privacy issues in decentralized systems and applications, cyber-physical systems, and mobile communication networks. In 2025, Yang received the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award for developing operational resilience foundations for networked real-time systems. Yang received his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2022. Before that, he received his bachelor's degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) and master's degree from University of Michigan.

Service

Technical Program Committees

TPC Member, NDSS 2026, 2027.
TPC Member, IEEE S&P 2027.
TPC Member, USENIX Security 2027.
TPC Member, ACSAC 2024, 2025, 2026.
TPC Member, IEEE CNS 2026.
TPC Member, IEEE INFOCOM 2024, 2025, 2026.
TPC Member, IEEE MILCOM 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026.
TPC Member, USENIX VehicleSec 2026.

Conference Organizing Committees

Student Travel Grant Chair, IEEE CNS 2026.
Web Chair, IEEE INFOCOM 2023, 2024.
Web Chair, IEEE CNS 2020.

Journal Reviewership

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOT-J)
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC)
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS)
IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC)
IEEE Transactions on Communications (TCOM)
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS)
ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS)

Other Service

Panelist for NSF
Steering Committee, University of Kentucky CyberCon 2025.
Graduate Student Panelist, NSF SaTC PI Meeting 2019, October 2019.