Xin Lou

Xin Lou

Assistant Professor

Singapore Institute of Technology

Biography

Dr. Xin Lou is currently an Assistant Professor at the Infocomm Technology and Engineering Clusters at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). Meanwhile, he is an Adjunct Senior Research Scientist at Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), a research center established by the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC) in Singapore. He is also the research affiliate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory (CSL) at UIUC. He received his PhD degree from Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR and B.E. degree from Department of Telecommunication Engineering, Sichuan University, China.

Publications

  Journal Papers
  • Prakhar Ganes, Yao Chen, Xin Lou, Mohammad Ali Khan, Yin Yang, Deming Chen, Marianne Winslett, Hassan Sajjad, and Preslav Nakov, Compressing Large-Scale Transformer-Based Models: A Case Study on BERT, Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 9, 1061-1080, 2021
  • Linshan Jiang, Rui Tan, Xin Lou, and Guosheng Lin, On Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning for Internet of Things by Independent Ran-dom Projections , ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, 2(2), 2021
  • Prakhar Ganesh, Xin Lou, Yao Chen, David K.Y. Yau, Rui Tan, Demin Chen, Marianne Winslett, Learning-based Simultaneous Detection and Characterization of Time Delay Attack in Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 12(4): 3581-3593, 2021
  • Xin Lou, Cuong Tran, Rui Tan, and David Yau, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ambarish Banerjee, Prakhar Ganesh*, Assessing and Mitigating Impact of Time Delay Attack: Case Studies for Power Grid Controls, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 38(1):141-155, 2020
  • Xin Lou, David Yau, Rui Tan, and Peng Cheng, Cost and Pricing of Differential Privacy in Demand Reporting for Smart Grids, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, accepted, 7(3), 2037-2051, 2020
  • Chaojie Gu, Rui Tan, and Xin Lou, One-hop Out-of-band Control Planes for Multi-hop Wireless Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 15(4), 2019
  Conference Papers
  • Hanyu Zheng, Zhenwei Ng, Pengfei Zhou, Xin Lou, David Yau, Marianne Winslett, Detecting Cyber Attacks in Smart Grids with Massive Unlabeled Sensing Data, IEEE SmartGridComm, 2022
  • Hanyu Zheng, Zhenwei Ng, Pengfei Zhou, Xin Lou, David Yau, Marianne Winslett, Detecting Cyber Attacks in Smart Grids with Massive Unlabeled Sensing Data, IEEE SmartGridComm, 2022
  • Weili Yan, Xin Lou, David Yau, Ying Yang, Ramadan Saifuddin, Marianne Winslett, A Stealthier False Data Injection Attack against the Power Grid, IEEE SmartGridComm, 2021
  • Ramadan Saifuddin, David Yau, Xin Lou, Reliability-Security Trade-Off for Distributed Reactive Power Control in Transactive Grid, IEEE SmartGridComm, 2021
  • Ying Yang, Xin Lou, Binbin Chen, Marianne Winslett, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Identifying Failing Point Machines from Sensor-Free Train System Logs, IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2020
  • Linshan Jiang, Xin Lou, Rui Tan, and Jun Zhao, Differentially Private Collaborative Learning for the IoT Edge, The 2nd International Workshop on Crowd Intelligence for Smart Cities: Technology and Applications (CICS), co-located with EWSN'19, 2019
  • Xin Lou, Cuong Tran, David K.Y. Yau, Rui Tan, Hongwei Ng, Tom Zhengjia Fu, Marianne Winslett, Learning-Based Time Delay Attack Characterization for Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE SmartGridComm 2019 - Workshop: AI in Energy Systems (Invited Paper), 2019
  • Linshan Jiang, Rui Tan, Xin Lou, and Guosheng Lin, On Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Learning for Internet-of-Things Objects, The 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) , CPS-IoT Week 2019
  • Xin Lou, Cuong Tran, Rui Tan, David Yau, and Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Assessing and Mitigating Impact of Time Delay Attack: A Case Study for Power Grid Frequency Control, The 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), CPS-IoT Week 2019
  • Chaojie Gu, Rui Tan, Xin Lou, and Dusit Niyato, One-Hop Out-of-Band Control Planes for Low-Power Multi-Hop Wireless Networks, IEEE Infocom, 2018
  • Xin Lou, Rui Tan, David Yau and Peng Cheng, Cost of Differential Privacy in Demand Reporting for Smart Grid Economic Dispatch, IEEE Infocom, 2017
Interests
  • Cyber-physical system
  • IoT
  • Deep learning for sensing and computing
  • Nonlinear optimization
  • Distributed algorithms
Education

  • PhD (Computer Science)

    City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China

  • BE (Telecomunication Engineering)

    Sichuan University, China