Liang Xiao

Liang Xiao is a Chinese communications engineer, and a professor in the Department of Communication Engineering at Xiamen University. Her research interests include wireless communication, network security, smart grids, and machine learning.

Education and career Xiao received a bachelor's degree in communication engineering from Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2000, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University in 2003. After two years at North Carolina State University, she transferred to Rutgers University in the US, where she received a Ph.D. in 2009. At Rutgers, she was jointly supervised by Narayan Mandayam, Larry Greenstein, and Wade Trappe.

She joined Xiamen University in 2009.

Recognition Xiao was a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Communications Society in 2023. She was named to the 2025 class of IEEE Fellows "for contributions to learning based wireless security".