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 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.).

We also welcome visiting scholars and students.

News

• [Jan. 2025] We are looking for a self-motivated Ph.D. student to join our research team working on System Privacy and Securiy in 2025. Please contact me directly if you are interested.
• [Jan. 2025] We are looking for a self-motivated Ph.D. student with China Scholarship Council (CSC) Ph.D. scholarship application (top-up scholarship and tuition fee waiver will be provided) to join our research team working on Software Systems in 2025.
• [Dec. 2024] Our Discovery Project has been approved by the Australian Research Council!
• [Sep. 2024] I am again named in Stanford University's World’s Top 2% Scientists list for Distributed Computing.
• [Sep. 2024] Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland)'25.
• [Aug. 2024] I am invited to serve as the PC member for ACM The Web Conference (WWW)'25.
• [Aug. 2024] Our paper has been accepted by IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC).
• [Feb. 2024] Our paper has been accepted as an oral paper by ACM The Web Conference (WWW)'24. Congrats, Ziqi!

Awards

• World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University, 2023-24
• Alfred Deakin Medal, Deakin University, 2022
• 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.
• 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.