Xiaowei Yang | Scholars@Duke

Xiaowei Yang
Associate Professor of Computer Science

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2012
Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2014

Contact Information

Box 90129, Durham, NC 27708-0129
Lsrc-D336, Durham, NC 27708
xiaowei.yang@duke.edu (919) 660-6536
http://www.cs.duke.edu/~xwy/

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2004
- B.S.E., Tsinghua University (China) 1996
Duke Appointment History
- Assist Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2009 - 2014
- Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Computer Science, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2008 - 2011
Recognition
Awards & Honors
- Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program. National Science Foundation. 2009
Research
Selected Grants
- FIA-NP: Collaborative Research: The Next-Phase MobilityFirst Project awarded by National Science Foundation 2014 - 2018
- NeTS: Small: Exploiting Social Networks to Build Trustworthy Distributed Systems awarded by National Science Foundation 2010 - 2015
- FIA:Collaborative Research:MobilityFirst: A Robust and Trustworthy Mobility-Centric Architecture for the Future Internet awarded by National Science Foundation 2010 - 2014
- CAREER: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Network Architecture Design awarded by National Science Foundation 2009 - 2014
- CT-ER: A DoS-Resistant Internet Architecture awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2009
- NETS-FIND: An Internet Architecture for User-Controlled Routes awarded by National Science Foundation 2008 - 2009
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Conference Papers
  - Yang, J, Yang, X, Zhou, Z, Wu, X, Benson, T, and Hu, C. "FOCUS: Function Offloading from a Controller to Utilize Switch power." May 4, 2017. Full Text
  - Cao, Q, Sirivianos, M, Yang, X, and Munagala, K. "Combating Friend Spam Using Social Rejections." January 1, 2015. Full Text
  - Bronzino, F, Han, C, Chen, Y, Nagaraja, K, Yang, X, Seskar, I, and Raychaudhuri, D. "In-network compute extensions for rate-adaptive content delivery in mobile networks." January 1, 2014. Full Text
  - Cao, Q, Yang, X, Yu, J, and Palow, C. "Uncovering large groups of active malicious accounts in online social networks." January 1, 2014. Full Text
  - Katabi, D, Bazzi, I, and Yang, X. "A passive approach for detecting shared bottlenecks." January 1, 2001. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Chen, Y, Chen, Y, Cao, Q, and Yang, X. "PacketCloud: A Cloudlet-Based Open Platform for In-Network Services." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems 27, no. 4 (April 1, 2016): 1146-1159. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Kim, K, Gan, JW, and Yang, X. "Leveraging Social Feedback to Verify Online Identity Claims." ACM Transactions on the Web 8, no. 2 (March 1, 2014): 1-38. Full Text
  - Chen, Y, Liu, B, Chen, Y, Li, A, Yang, X, and Bi, J. "PacketCloud: An open platform for elastic in-network services." Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM (November 13, 2013): 17-22. Full Text
  - Liu, B, Bi, J, and Yang, X. "FaaS: Filtering IP spoofing traffic as a service." Computer Communication Review 42, no. 4 (December 1, 2012): 113-114. Full Text
  - Wu, X, Turner, D, Chen, CC, Maltz, DA, Yang, X, Yuan, L, and Zhang, M. "Netpilot: Automating datacenter network failure mitigation." Computer Communication Review 42, no. 4 (December 1, 2012): 419-430. Full Text
  - Wu, X, and Yang, X. "DARD: Distributed adaptive routing for datacenter networks." Proceedings International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (October 5, 2012): 32-41. Full Text
  - Liu, B, Bi, J, and Yang, X. "FaaS: Filtering IP spoofing traffic as a service." SIGCOMM'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (2012): 113-114. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Kim, K, Gan, JW, and Yang, X. "Assessing the veracity of identity assertions via OSNs." 2012 4th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks, COMSNETS 2012 (2012). Full Text
  - Wu, X, Turner, D, Chen, C-C, Maltz, DA, Yang, X, Yuan, L, and Zhang, M. "NetPilot: Automating datacenter network failure mitigation." SIGCOMM'12 - Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2012 Conference Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication (2012): 419-430. Full Text
  - Li, A, Zong, X, Kandula, S, Yang, X, and Zhang, M. "CloudProphet: Towards application performance prediction in cloud." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm 2011 Conference, Sigcomm'11 (September 29, 2011): 426-427. Full Text
  - Ang Li, , Xiaowei Yang, , Kandula, S, and Ming Zhang, . "Comparing Public-Cloud Providers." Ieee Internet Computing 15, no. 2 (March 2011): 50-53. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Kim, K, and Yang, X. "SocialFilter: Introducing social trust to collaborative spam mitigation." Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM (2011): 2300-2308. Full Text
  - Li, A, Yang, X, Kandula, S, and Zhang, M. "CloudCmp: Comparing public cloud providers." Proceedings of the Acm Sigcomm Internet Measurement Conference, Imc (December 1, 2010): 1-14. Full Text
  - Liu, X, Yang, X, and Xia, Y. "NetFence: Preventing internet denial of service from inside out." Computer Communication Review 40, no. 4 (December 1, 2010): 255-266. Full Text
  - Almishari, M, and Yang, X. "Ads-portal domains: Identification and measurements." ACM Transactions on the Web 4, no. 2 (2010). Full Text
  - Liu, X, Yang, X, and Xia, Y. "NetFence: Preventing internet denial of service from inside out." Computer Communication Review 40, no. 4 (2010): 255-266. Full Text
  - Yang, X, Lu, Y, and Zan, L. "Improving XCP to achieve max-min fair bandwidth allocation." Computer Networks 54, no. 3 (2010): 442-461. Full Text
  - Li, A, Yang, X, and Wetherall, D. "SafeGuard: Safe forwarding during route changes." CoNEXT'09 - Proceedings of the 2009 ACM Conference on Emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (2009): 301-312. Full Text
  - Sirivianos, M, Yang, X, and Jarecki, S. "Robust and efficient incentives for cooperative content distribution." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 17, no. 6 (2009): 1766-1779. Full Text
  - Gjoka, M, Sirivianos, M, Markopoulou, A, and Yang, X. "Poking facebook: Characterization of OSN applications." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 Conference on Computer Communications -1st Workshop on Online Social Networks, WOSP'08 (2008): 31-36. Full Text
  - Liu, X, Yang, X, and Lu, Y. "To filter or to authorize: Network-layer DoS defense against multimillion-node botnets." Computer Communication Review 38, no. 4 (2008): 195-206. Full Text
  - Yang, X, Wetherall, D, and Anderson, T. "TVA: A DoS-limiting network architecture." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 16, no. 6 (2008): 1267-1280. Full Text
  - Yang, X. "Auction, but don't block." SIGCOMM 2008 Conference and the Co-located Workshops - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Economics of Networked Systems, NetEcon'08 (2008): 19-24. Full Text
  - Gjoka, M, Ram, V, and Yang, X. "Evaluation of IP fast reroute proposals." Proceedings of the 2007 2nd International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware and Workshops, COMSWARE 2007 (2007). Full Text
  - Guan, Z, Yang, X, Wang, L, Zhang, Y, and Liu, Y. "Bio-effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis." Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering 33, no. 2 (2007): 1-6.
  - Lei, Z, and Xiaowei, Y. "Improving XCP to achieve max-min fair bandwidth allocation." Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 4479 LNCS (2007): 992-1004.
  - Li, A, Francois, P, and Yang, X. "On improving the efficiency and manageability of NotVia." Proceedings of 2007 ACM CoNEXT Conference - 3rd International Conference on Emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, CoNEXT (2007). Full Text
  - Yang, X, Clark, D, and Berger, AW. "NIRA: A new inter-domain routing architecture." IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking 15, no. 4 (2007): 775-788. Full Text
  - Yang, X, Wang, L, Guan, Z, Zhang, Y, and Wang, X. "Preventive effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis model induced by ovariectomy." Gaodianya Jishu/High Voltage Engineering 33, no. 2 (2007): 97-100.
  - Yang, X, Wang, L, Guan, ZC, Zhang, Y, and Wang, X. "Effects of pulsed electromagnetic fields on osteoporosis model." IEEJ Transactions on Fundamentals and Materials 127, no. 9 (2007): 505-508+2. Full Text
  - Yang, X, and Wetherall, D. "Source selectable path diversity via routing deflections." Computer Communication Review 36, no. 4 (2006): 159-170. Full Text
  - Yang, X, Wetherall, D, and Anderson, T. "A DoS-limiting network architecture." Computer Communication Review 35, no. 4 (2005): 241-252. Full Text
  - Krioukov, D, Fall, K, and Yang, X. "Compact routing on internet-like graphs." Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM 1 (2004): 209-219.
  - Yang, X, and Yang, X. "NIRA: A new Internet routing architectureNIRA: A New Internet Routing Architecture (PublishedPublished)." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Future Directions in Network Architecture, FDNA '03 (December 1, 2003): 301-312. Full Text
  - Bauer, S, and Yang, X. "Workshop report: Future Directions in Network Architecture (FDNA-03)." Computer Communication Review 33, no. 5 (October 1, 2003): 89-98. Full Text
  - Yang, X. "NIRA: A New Internet Routing Architecture." Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Workshops (2003): 301-312.
  - Yang, X. "Designing traffic profiles for bursty internet traffic." Conference Record / IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference 3 (December 1, 2002): 2149-2154.
  - Yang, X. "Model for window based flow control in packet-switched networks." Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM 2 (1999): 423-430.
Teaching & Mentoring
Recent Courses

Some information on this profile has been compiled automatically from Duke databases and external sources. (Our About page explains how this works.) If you see a problem with the information, please write to Scholars@Duke and let us know. We will reply promptly.

Education, Training, & Certifications

Duke Appointment History

Awards & Honors

Selected Grants

Selected Publications

Conference Papers

Journal Articles

Recent Courses