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Xiao Qin

Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Contact Information: Shelby Center for Engineering Technology, Suite 3101E

                                        Fax:     1-334-844-6329

We have multiple undergraduate research assistantships, please apply now! 

Opportunities for Undergraduates: Auburn University was recently awarded an NSF Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Site program on Pervasive and Mobile Computing. See Announcement for program details and application instructions. 

[02/09] Our paper titled "Static Security Optimization for Real Time Systems" was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. (with M. Lin, L. Xu, L.T. Yang, N.-G. Zheng, Z.-H. Wu, and M.-K Qiu).

[01/09] NSF REU Site Award, 2009-2012. Our NSF REU-Site proposal was recommended for funding (PI: Saad Biaz, co-PIs: Wei-Shinn Ku and Xiao Qin). This NSF grant will make it possible to involve undergraduates to investigate, design, implement, and/or evaluate solutions to many challenging issues in the arena of pervasive and mobile computing. Read more...

[11/08] New release! ioBalanceSim: A Simulation Environment for I/O-Aware Dynamic Load Balancing (Version 0.1 released on 11/25/08) Read more…

[10/08] NSF Federal Cyber Service: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Award, 2008-2010. Our NSF SFS proposal was selected for funding (PI: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., co-PIs: Kai Chang, Xiao Qin, and Wei-Shinn Ku). This grant allows us to improve the skills of information assurance (IA) faculty through professional development and to develop a multi-disciplinary information assurance educational program. 

[09/08] NSF Cyber Trust Award, 2008-2011. Our NSF CyberTrust proposal was selected for funding (PI: Wei-Shinn Ku, co-PIs: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., Xiao Qin, and Haixun Wang). This grant allows us to develop space encryption and space decryption mechanisms, to design privacy-protected query processing algorithms to answer spatial queries based on encrypted search space, and to develop a sophisticated SPEAR system architecture for supporting real-world applications.

[09/08] Auburn University College of Engineering Climbs in Rankings. Read more...

[08/08]Double Congratulations to Mohammed Alghamdi! In addition to receiving the Ph.D. degree in Aug. 2008, Mohammed accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Albaha University, Saudi Arabia.

[08/08] NSF Cyberinfrastructure-TEAM (CI-TEAM) Award, 2008-2011. Our NSF CI-TEAM proposal was selected for funding (PI: John A. “Drew” Hamilton, Jr., co-PIs: Kai Chang, Xiao Qin, and Wei-Shinn Ku). This grant allows us to support the enhancement of an existing digital forensics curriculum and then eventually installing it within the Veterans Administration system nation-wide.

[08/08] Exploiting Redundancies to Enhance Schedulability in Fault-Tolerant and Real-Time Distributed Systems. W. Luo, X. Qin, F.-M. Yang, L.-P. Pang and A. A. Manzanares, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man & Cybernetics, Part A. Accepted.

[08/08] M. Nijim, A. Manzanares, and X. Qin, "An Adaptive Energy-Conserving Strategy for Parallel Disk Systems," Proc. the 12th IEEE International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications, Oct. 2008. [Abstract | PDF]

[07/08]Double Congratulations to Ziliang Zong! He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation on July 2, 2008. Two months before the defense, Ziliang accepted a tenure-track faculty position at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology. To read more about his dissertation research Click Here.

 A Brief Biography:

Xiao Qin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Auburn University. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, in 1996 and 1999, respectively. He received the Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2004. Prior to joining Auburn University in 2007, he had been an assistant professor with New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (New Mexico Tech) for three years. In 2007, he received an NSF CPA Award (No. CCF-0742187) and an NSF CSR Award (No. CNS-0757778). His research interests include parallel and distributed systems, real-time computing, storage systems, fault tolerance, and performance evaluation. His research is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation, Auburn University, and Intel Corporation. He had served as a subject area editor of IEEE Distributed System Online (2000-2001). He has been on the program committees of various international conferences, including IEEE Cluster, IEEE IPCCC, and ICPP.