About

Hi! I'm Xian, a 1st year PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania, fortunately advised by Prof. Linh Thi Xuan Phan. I previously worked with Prof. Dimitris Papadopoulos and Prof. Ioannis Demertzis.

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Publications

* equal contribution.

• Uncertainty-Aware Resource Allocation for Multi-Path Programs with In-Kernel Predictions Abigail Eisenklam*, Carlos A. Montenegro G.*, Xian Wang, Yifan Cai, Robert Gifford, Linh Thi Xuan Phan, Ricardo G. Sanfelice.
  ECRTS 2026 (Result Reproduced)
• OBLIVIATOR: Oblivious Parallel Joins and other Operators in Shared Memory Environments Apostolos Mavrogiannakis*, Xian Wang*, Ioannis Demertzis, Dimitrios Papadopoulos, Minos Garofalakis.
  USENIX Security 2025 (Artifact Functional)
  pdf code
• SOTER: Guarding Black-box Inference for General Neural Networks at the Edge Tianxiang Shen, Ji Qi, Jianyu Jiang, Xian Wang, Siyuan Wen, Xusheng Chen, Shixiong Zhao, Sen Wang, Li Chen, Xiapu Luo, Fengwei Zhang, Heming Cui.
  USENIX ATC 2022 (Result Reproduced)
  pdf code video slides
• ENIDrift: A Fast and Adaptive Ensemble System for Network Intrusion Detection under Real-world Drift Xian Wang.
  ACSAC 2022 (Artifact Functional)
  pdf code slides

Awards

• 2026 UPenn PhD Career Exploration Fellowship
• 2025 UPenn Graduate Fellowship and Research Stipend Award
• 2023 and 2024 HKUST Postgraduate Scholarship
• 2020 Modern Scientists Memorial Scholarship
• 2019, 2020, and 2021 National Scholarship

Teaching

• 2026 Spring CIS 5050 Software System, TA
• 2024 Fall COMP 2011 Programming with C++, TA
• 2023 Fall COMP 2012 Object-Oriented Programming and Data Structures, TA
• 2022 Fall COMP 3330 Interactive Mobile Application Design and Programming, TA

Service

• Artifact Evaluation Committee: USENIX ATC 2023, USENIX OSDI 2023