The Grainger College of Engineering
Siebel School of Computing and Data Science

Xiaojing Liao

Xiaojing Liao
Xiaojing Liao she/her/hers
Associate Professor
4310 Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science

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Research Interests

Research Areas

Honors

  • ACM CCS Distinguished Paper Award (2025)
  • Amazon Research Award (2025)
  • ISOC NDSS Distinguished Artifact Award (2025)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2024)
  • ISOC NDSS Distinguished Paper Award (2019)
  • ACM SIGSAC Doctoral Dissertation Award, Runner-up (2018)

Recent Courses Taught

  • CS 463 (ECE 424) - Computer Security II
  • CS 562 - Adv Top in Sec, Priv and ML

News Notes

  • 6/11/2026

    Xiaojing Liao, CS associate professor, received the National Science Foundation (NSF) award in collaboration with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) for the project, "CICI: TCR: Enabling Next-Generation Security Operations Center with an LLM-Powered Adaptive Cyber Deceptive Framework." The project explores how LLM-powered adaptive cyber deception can help support next-generation security operations centers and improve cyber defense.