Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (courtesy)
Joined department in 2001
Education:
BS, Computer Science
Zhongshan University (1994)
PhD, Computer Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001)
Professor Xu's current research focuses on the development of virtualization technologies for
computer system security and for virtual distributed computing. He has also made early contributions
to the area of peer-to-peer media streaming and distribution. He leads the Lab for Research in
Emerging Network and Distributed Systems (FRIENDS).
In computer system security, Xu and his students have been developing virtualization-based systems
for capturing, investigating, and defending against stealthy computer malware (e.g., worms, rootkits,
and bots). In virtual distributed computing, Xu and his students have been developing
virtualization-based middleware that creates virtual networked environments on top of a shared
physical infrastructure. His lab contributes to the development and deployment of the
nanoHUB, one of the first production-quality virtualization-enabled cyberinfrastructures in
operation.
Xu received the C.L. and Jane W-S. Liu Award from the Department of Computer Science at UIUC (2000),
a Seed for Success Award from Purdue University (2004), and a CAREER Award from the National Science
Foundation (2006). He is affiliated with the Center for Education and Research in Information
Assurance and Security (CERIAS) and the Cyber Center. He is an Associate Editor of the Cluster
Computing Journal (Springer) and has served on program committees of major distributed computing and
security conferences (e.g., ICDCS, SC, NDSS, and WWW). Xu's research has been supported by the
National Science Foundation (NSF), IARPA through the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), Microsoft
Research, and Purdue Research Foundation.
Selected Publications
X. Jiang and D. Xu, "Collapsar: A VM-Based Architecture for Network Attack Detention Center",
Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Security Symposium (Security 2004), San Diego, CA, August
2004.
P. Ruth, X. Jiang, D. Xu, and S. Goasguen, "Towards Virtual Distributed Environments in a Shared
Infrastructure", IEEE Computer, Special Issue on Virtualization Technologies, May 2005.
M. Hefeeda, A. Habib, D. Xu, B. Bhargava, and B. Botev, "CollectCast: A Peer-to-Peer Service for
Media Streaming", ACM/Springer Multimedia Systems Journal, October 2005.
Funding Administered by Computer Science
Dongyan Xu, CAREER: Towards Virtual Distributed Environments in a shared Distributed
Infrastructure, National Science Foundation, 2/1/2006-1/31/2011.
Dongyan Xu, CSR-EHS: Collaborative Research: H-Media: The Holistic-Multistream Environment for
Distributed Immersive Applications, National Science Foundation, 8/1/2007-7/31/2010.
Dongyan Xu, CT: ISG: Collaborative Proposal: Enabling Detection of Elusive Malware by Going Out
of the Box with Semanticaly Reconstructed View (OBSERV), National Science Foundation,
8/1/2007-7/31/2010.
Dongyan Xu, Virtualization-Enabled Malware Defense, Microsoft Corporation, 5/11/2007.
Dongyan Xu and Eugene Spafford, Process Coloring: An Information Flow-Preserving Approach to
Malware Investigation, DTO/Air Force Research Laboratory, 6/7/2007-12/6/2008.
Dongyan Xu, Sebastien Goasguen, and Gerhard Klimeck, NMI Deployment (ENG): nanoHub, National
Science Foundation, 10/1/2004-9/30/2008.
Gerhard Klimeck, Thomas Hacker, and Dongyan Xu, Accelerating Nano-Scale Transistor Innovation
Though Petascale Simulation, National Science Foundation, 10/1/2007-9/30/2011.
Michael McLennan, Gerhard Klimeck, and Dongyan Xu, SDCI NMI Improvement: nanoHUB Middleware,
National Science Foundation, 9/1/2007-8/30/2010.
Last Updated: January 27, 2008 09:51pm
