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Xiaowei Yang

Professor of Computer Science
Computer Science
Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
LSRC-D336, Durham, NC 27708

Overview


Networking, systems, and security.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Professor of Computer Science · 2023 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Co-Director of Graduate Studies for the Master of Science in Economics and Computation Program · 2023 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Director of Graduate Studies MS Program in the Department of Computer Science · 2023 - Present Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications


Browsing without Third-Party Cookies: What Do You See?

Conference Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, IMC · November 4, 2024 Third-party web cookies are often used for privacy-invasive behavior tracking. Partly due to privacy concerns, browser vendors have started to block all third-party cookies in recent years. To understand the effects of such third-party cookieless browsing, ... Full text Cite

Regional IP Anycast: Deployments, Performance, and Potentials

Conference SIGCOMM 2023 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2023 Conference · September 10, 2023 Recent studies show that an end system's traffic may reach a distant anycast site within a global IP anycast system, resulting in high latency. To address this issue, some private and public CDNs have implemented regional IP anycast, a technique that invol ... Full text Cite

Quantifying User Password Exposure to Third-Party CDNs

Conference Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) · January 1, 2023 Web services commonly employ Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) for performance and security. As web traffic is becoming 100% HTTPS, more and more websites allow CDNs to terminate their HTTPS connections. This practice may expose a website’s user sensiti ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


CNS Core:Small: Optimizing IP Anycast Performance at Scale

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2025

CNS Core: Small: Collaborative Research: Improving the Reliability of Cable Broadband Networks with Proactive Network Maintenance

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

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Education, Training & Certifications


Massachusetts Institute of Technology · 2004 Ph.D.
Tsinghua University (China) · 1996 B.S.E.

External Links


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