Xiao Song 宋潇

Ph.D. Candidate
The ANT Lab
Department of Computer Science
University of Southern California / Information Sciences Institute

Email: songxiao AT usc DOT edu

Short Biography

I'm a Ph.D. Candidate in The ANT Lab at USC, advised by Dr. John Heidemann. I'm interested in Computer Networking and Internet Measurement.

Publications

1. Ebb and Flow: Implications of ISP Address Dynamics [ Paper ]
   Guillermo Baltra, Xiao Song, John Heidemann, Qinge Xie, Frank Li.
   Passive and Active Measurement Conference (PAM'24), 2024.

2. Inferring Changes in Daily Human Activity from Internet Response [ Paper | Press ]
   Xiao Song, Guillermo Baltra, and John Heidemann.
   In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'23). June 2023.

3. Visualizing Internet Measurements of Covid-19 Work-from-Home [ Paper ]
   Erica Stutz, Yuri Pradkin, Xiao Song and John Heidemann.
   In Proceedings of the National Symposium for NSF REU Research in Data Science, Systems, and Security (REU 2021 Symposium) 2021

Poster

1. Measuring the Internet during Covid-19 to Evaluate Work-from-Home
   Xiao Song, John Heidemann.
   NSF PREPARE-VO Workshop, 2020.

Dataset

• IP address accumulation counts of the number of active addresses per /24 IPv4 blocks over time.

Education

• 2021-present, Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• 2019-2021, M.S., Computer Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• 2016-2019, B.S., Computer Science, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.

Teaching Experience

• Teaching Assistant, CSci 651/551 Computer Networking, Fall 2023, Fall 2024

Awards

• 2021 Viterbi MS Award at University of Southern California.
  For researching evaluating work-from-home during Covid-19.