Xiaoyu (Shaw) Xia

I am a Lecturer (Equiv. to Assistant Professor in North America) in Cyber Security & Software Systems with School of Computing Technologies at RMIT University. My current research interests include System Privacy and Security, Distributed Systems, Edge and Cloud Computing, and Sustainable Computing. I am a senior member of IEEE and a member of ACM. I also serve as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing and a Review Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

I am actively looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with interests in system security and privacy, and distributed ML systems. If you are interested, please send me an email with your CV, transcript and research experience (e.g. minor thesis, publication, etc.) at any time. Visiting scholars and students as well as industry partners are welcomed.

News

• [Nov. 2025] Our paper KGEES has been accepted by TDSC. Congrats, Ziqi!
• [Nov. 2025] I am invited to serve as a committee member of ISOC Fellowship Review Committee for NDSS'26.
• [Nov. 2025] Our paper MoSEEC has been accepted by TMC. Congrats, Ziqi!
• [Nov. 2025] I have received the RMIT Early Career Researcher Award for Research Excellence!
• [Sep. 2025] I am invited to serve as the PC member for WWW'26.
• [Sep. 2025] I am again named in the World’s Top 2% Scientists list for Distributed Computing.
• [Aug. 2025] I am invited to serve as the PC member for PoPETS/PETS'26.
• [Jul. 2025] Our paper has been accepted by RAID'25. Congrats, Jiachen!
• [May. 2025] I am invited to serve as the PC member for RAID'25.

Awards

• RMIT Early Career Researcher Award for Research Excellence, RMIT, 2025
• World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford/Elsevier, 2022-Now
• Alfred Deakin Medal, Deakin University, 2021
• Teaching Excellence Award, Swinburne University of Technology, 2021
• Postgraduate Research Award, Deakin University, 2021
• Postgraduate Research Scholarship, Deakin University, 2018-21

Funded Projects

• Chief Investigator, privacy-aware intelligent digital twin for secure critical infrastructures, ARC Discovery Project (DP250100582, $506,636.00), Australia, 2025-27.
• Partnership Investigator, empowering Vietnames shrimp farming with AIoT for climate-resilient disease management, Vietnam Thematic Research Grant (VND 452,154,470.00), 2026-2027.
• Chief Investigator, Med-Safe App, RMIT Blue Sky Scheme ($20,000), 2025.
• Lead Chief Investigator, optimizing collaborative learning at the constrained edge with privacy awareness, CSIRO-RMIT Research Masters Project, Australia, 2024-25.
• Lead Chief Investigator, enabling machine unlearning on resource-constrained devices, CCSRI SEED Funding, RMIT Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation, Australia, 2024.
• Chief Investigator, empowering female Cybersecurity leaders: bridging the gender gap in Cybersecurity Education (0000000051), Advance HE Global Impact Grants, United Kingdom, 2023-24.
• Lead Chief Investigator, cost-effective and secure data management in edge computing, University of Southern Queensland, Australia, 2022.