Qiao Kang LinkedIn Google Scholar

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About Me

I received my BS and MS degrees from Beihang University in 2014 and 2017, respectively. I was an OS kernel developer in VMware Inc. from 2017.1 to 2018.6. From 2018 to 2020, I pursued the PhD degree at CS department of Rice University, advised by Prof. Ang Chen. My research at Rice focused Programmable In-network Security (Poise), aiming at making futures networks more secure with programmable data planes. I left the PhD program at the end of 2020 and joined industry.

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Publications

• Net-P4ct: Enhanced WAN Bandwidth Fair Sharing Using P4 Programmable Switches
  Haoran Chen, Mingwei Cui, Yihan Zou, Yihang Miao Suhan Jiang, Damu Ding, Lirong Lai, Ming Gao, Rui Jiang, Shengyuan He, Anjian Chen, Jiaming Shi, Junjie Wan, Yandong Duan, Ruomin Fang, Hongyu Wu, Yongping Tang, Qiao Kang, Guangrui Wu, Xiyun Xu
  NSDI 2026
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• Automating SmartNIC Offloading Insights for Network Functions
  Yiming Qiu, Jiarong Xing, Kuo-Feng Hsu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Srinivas Narayana, and Ang Chen
  SOSP 2021
  [PDF] [Artifact]
  
  
• Probabilistic Profiling of Stateful Data Planes for Adversarial Testing
  Qiao Kang, Jiarong Xing, Yiming Qiu, Ang Chen
  ASPLOS 2021
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• Clara: Performance Clarity for SmartNIC Offloading
  Yiming Qiu, Qiao Kang, Ming Liu, Ang Chen
  HotNets 2020
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• NetWarden: Mitigating Network Covert Channels while Preserving Performance
  Jiarong Xing, Qiao Kang, Ang Chen
  USENIX Security 2020
  [PDF] [Github]
  
  
• Programmable In-Network Security for Context-aware BYOD Policies
  Qiao Kang, Lei Xue, Adam Morrison, Yuxin Tang, Ang Chen, Xiapu Luo
  USENIX Security 2020
  [PDF] [Github] [arXiv]
  
  
• Automated Attack Discovery in Data Plane Systems
  Qiao Kang, Jiarong Xing and Ang Chen
  CSET 2019
  [PDF] [Slides] [Poster]
  

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On Life

I do a lot of sports - my favoriate is full-court (5 vs. 5) basketball games. I like shooting threes in transitions. My favoriate NBA player is Stephen Curry.

I'm an eternal fan of a Chinese MMORPG called Fantasy Westward Journey. I like participating in "Gung Wars" -- a form of competition between factions.