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, gratefully advised by Dr. John Heidemann.
I received my B.S. in Computer Science from The University of Iowa,
where I was honored to work with Dr. Rishab Nithyanand and Dr. Joseph Kearney.
I'm interested in Computer Networking and Internet Measurement.

Publications

1. Poster: Rediscovering Recurring Routing Results
   Xiao Song, John Heidemann
   In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM on Internet Measurement Conference (IMC'25). Oct 2025.

2. 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.

3. 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). Oct 2023.

4. 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

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.

Working Experience

• Software Engineer Intern, Meta, Summer 2025

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.

Dataset

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