Summary
Xiaohua X is a tenured Associate Professor and director of the iLab-CCS, bringing a decade of academic and research experience across the US and China in network security, wireless networking, and machine learning. He has authored over 62 peer-reviewed papers including in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking and IEEE INFOCOM, with an h-index of 19 and more than 1,574 citations; three papers have surpassed 100 citations each. A recognized researcher and speaker, he has served on numerous program committees and earned a departmental best paper award at Illinois Institute of Technology. As a principal investigator he manages NSF-funded projects totaling $244,808 alongside institutional grants, demonstrating success translating research into funded programs. His career includes research roles at Michigan Tech and the University of Toledo and international academic ties through exchanges at Zhejiang, Lübeck, Tsinghua, and Hong Kong Polytechnic. Based in Atlanta, he blends rigorous theoretical work with practical cyber-physical systems experimentation, often bridging interdisciplinary teams to tackle real-world security and learning challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at New York University - Polytechnic School of Engineering
Bachlor's Degree, Microelectronics, Bachlor's Degree, Microelectronics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese