Yang Xiao (scientist)

Biography

Yang Xiao worked in industry as a MAC (Medium Access Control) architect involving the IEEE 802.11 standard enhancement work before he joined academia. Dr. Yang Xiao currently is a Full Professor of Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. His current research interests include communications/networks and computer/network security. He has published over 200 SCI-indexed journal papers (including over 50 IEEE/ACM transactions papers) and over 200 EI indexed refereed conference papers and book chapters related to these research areas. His research has been supported by the U.S. NSF, U.S. Army Research, GENI, Fleet Industrial Supply Center-San Diego, FIATECH, and The University of Alabama’s Research Grants Committee.

Xiao was a Voting Member of IEEE 802.11 Working Group from 2001 to 2004. He is a Fellow of IET (previously IEE) (FIET). He is an IEEE Senior Member since 2004. He served/serves as a Panelist for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), The Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Telecommunications expert committee, and the American Institute of Biological Sciences, as well as a Referee/Reviewer for many national and international funding agencies US Army Research Office (ARO), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong, The United States - Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), Technology Foundation STW of Netherlands, Qatar National Research Fund, Maryland Technology Development Corporation (TEDCO), Louisiana Board of Regents, and The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

He currently serves as Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Security and Networks and International Journal of Sensor Networks (SCI-index). He was the founding Editor-in-Chief for International Journal of Telemedicine and Applications (IJTA), during 2007 to 2009. He has been an Editorial Board or Associate Editor for 15 international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, since 2014, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, during 2007 to 2009, and IEEE Communications Survey and Tutorials, during 2007 to 2014. He served (s) as a Guest Editor for over 20 times for different international journals, including IEEE Network, IEEE Wireless Communications, and ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET). In addition, he has been involved in organizing over 40 conferences. He served (s) the General/Honorary Chair/Co-Chair for 17 conferences/workshops. He served (s) the TPC Chair or TPC Co-Chair for 9 conferences. He served (s) the Symposium Co-Chair for 7 symposia. He served (s) on TPC for more than 150 conferences such as INFOCOM, ICDCS, MOBIHOC, ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, etc. Dr. Xiao has delivered over 20 keynote speeches at international conferences around the world and gave more than 60 invited talks for different international institutes.