Xitao Wen

Office#: 847-467-5343
Mailing: 2145 Sheridan Road, Tech L359, Evanston, IL 60208-3118
E-mail: xwe334 AT eecs.northwestern.edu

3/10/2012	Our first project on SDN security will appear in the poster session on USENIX NSDI 2013.
3/5/2013	An extended version of OSA is accepted by IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
2/23/2012	Our paper Virtual Browser is accepted by ACM ASIACCS 2012.
2/7/2012	My first-authored paper VirtualKnotter is accepted by IEEE ICDCS 2012.
12/13/2011	Our paper OSA is accepted by USENIX/ACM NSDI 2012 .
6/2010-9/2011	Design scalable optical DCNs in NEC Labs China and Tsinghua University, mentored by Dr. Yong Xia.
8/2009-1/2010	I work as an intern researcher in MSR Asia studying data mining and software analysis with Researcher Ming Chang and Yingnong Dang.

Ph.D.		Computer Science		Northwestern University		06/2015(Expected)		Advisor: Prof. Yan Chen
B.S.		Computer Science		Yuanpei College, Peking University		07/2010		Advisor: Prof. Bin Cui

Towards A Secure Controller Platform for OpenFlow Application
Xitao Wen, Yan Chen, Chengchen Hu, Chao Shi, Yi Wang
poster paper in USENIX NSDI 2013, lOMBARD, IL, April 2013.
OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented Flexibility
Kai Chen, Ankit Singla, Atul Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, Xitao Wen, Yan Chen
to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.
Online Virtual Machine Shuffling for Congestion Resolving in Virtualized Datacenter [slides]
Xitao Wen, Kai Chen, Yan Chen, Yongqiang Liu, Yong Xia, Chengchen Hu
IEEE ICDCS 2012, Macau, China, June 2012.
OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented Flexibility
Kai Chen, Ankit Singla, Atul Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, Xitao Wen, Yan Chen
USENIX/ACM NSDI 2012, San Jose, CA, April 2012.
Virtual Browser: a Virtualized Browser to Sandbox Third-party JavaScripts with Enhanced Security
Yinzhi Cao, Zhichun Li, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Xitao Wen
ACM ASIACCS 2012, Seoul, Korea, May 2012

A Method for Network Load Balancing using Virtual Machine Migration
Yongqiang Liu, Xitao Wen, Kai Chen, Yan Chen, Yong Xia, US patent, being filed through NEC Labs China, 2011.

2012		Murphy Fellowship, EECS Dept, Northwestern University
2009		Star International Media Fellowship, Peking University
2009		Award of Excellence, Stars of Tomorrow Internship Program of Microsoft Research Asia
2008		Awarded President's Fund for Undergraduate Research, Peking University
2006		Tin Kaping Fellowship for Excellent Graduating Student
2006		No. 1 in National College Entrance Examination of Qiannan District

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) (2013)

IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP) 2011

IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) 2011/2012/2013

IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2011

Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier (2011).

2013		Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Computer Programming, EECS Department, Northwestern University
2012		Teaching Assistant, Network Penetration and Security, EECS Department, Northwestern University
2012		Teaching Assistant, Programming for Engineers, EECS Department, Northwestern University