Liang Xiao

18.4k total citations · 8 hit papers
403 papers, 13.7k citations indexed

About

Liang Xiao is a scholar working on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Liang Xiao has authored 403 papers receiving a total of 13.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 200 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, 158 papers in Computer Networks and Communications and 73 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Liang Xiao's work include Wireless Communication Security Techniques (56 papers), UAV Applications and Optimization (39 papers) and Security in Wireless Sensor Networks (38 papers). Liang Xiao is often cited by papers focused on Wireless Communication Security Techniques (56 papers), UAV Applications and Optimization (39 papers) and Security in Wireless Sensor Networks (38 papers). Liang Xiao collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Canada. Liang Xiao's co-authors include H. Vincent Poor, Narayan B. Mandayam, Yadong Li, Xiaozhen Lu, Weihua Zhuang, Huaiyu Dai, Xiaoyue Wan, Di Wu, Dingsheng Wang and Wade Trappe and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Chemical Society, Advanced Materials and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

In The Last Decade

Liang Xiao

374 papers receiving 13.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Atomic‐Level Modulation of Electronic Density at Cobalt Single‐Atom Sites Derived from Metal–Organic Frameworks: Enhanced Oxygen Reduction Performance

2020 585 citations Liang Xiao, Wenxing Chen et al. profile →
The Progress and Outlook of Metal Single-Atom-Site Catalysis

2022 493 citations Liang Xiao, Yadong Li et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
IoT Security Techniques Based on Machine Learning: How Do IoT Devices Use AI to Enhance Security?

2018 458 citations Liang Xiao, Xiaoyue Wan et al. profile →
Learning-Based Computation Offloading for IoT Devices With Energy Harvesting

2019 434 citations Liang Xiao, Peng Cheng et al. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology profile →
Lattice Strain and Schottky Junction Dual Regulation Boosts Ultrafine Ruthenium Nanoparticles Anchored on a N-Modified Carbon Catalyst for H₂ Production

2022 241 citations Zhuoli Jiang, Shaojia Song et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →
Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for UAV-Enabled Networks: Learning-Based Joint Scheduling and Resource Management

2021 219 citations Helin Yang, Jun Zhao et al. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications profile →
Atomic‐Level Regulation of Cobalt Single‐Atom Nanozymes: Engineering High‐Efficiency Catalase Mimics

2023 174 citations Liang Xiao, Dingsheng Wang et al. profile →
Engineering the Lewis Acidity of Fe Single-Atom Sites via Atomic-Level Tuning of Spatial Coordination Configuration for Enhanced Oxygen Reduction

2025 49 citations Ligang Wang, Liang Xiao et al. Journal of the American Chemical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Liang Xiao China	63	6.1k	5.0k	2.3k	2.3k	1.8k	403	13.7k
Chang Liu China	45	3.1k 0.5×	1.4k 0.3×	1.3k 0.6×	2.1k 0.9×	1.1k 0.7×	574	10.1k
Feifei Gao China	69	12.8k 2.1×	5.6k 1.1×	2.4k 1.1×	1.8k 0.8×	2.2k 1.3×	585	18.9k
Cheng‐Xiang Wang China	74	20.4k 3.3×	6.8k 1.4×	636 0.3×	726 0.3×	1.9k 1.1×	647	24.3k
Abhishek Kumar India	51	2.4k 0.4×	1.3k 0.3×	905 0.4×	2.5k 1.1×	2.0k 1.1×	482	11.5k
Xi Chen China	47	3.9k 0.6×	1.1k 0.2×	909 0.4×	1.6k 0.7×	610 0.3×	533	9.2k
Michael Pecht United States	91	21.6k 3.5×	995 0.2×	510 0.2×	1.8k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	1.0k	39.5k
Tao Yu China	54	6.9k 1.1×	1.1k 0.2×	2.0k 0.9×	2.1k 0.9×	712 0.4×	450	11.3k
Yong Tang China	69	4.3k 0.7×	425 0.1×	2.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	2.9k 1.6×	671	16.8k
Yuanwei Liu United Kingdom	81	20.8k 3.4×	5.4k 1.1×	1.2k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	552 0.3×	694	26.4k
Yu Wang China	55	6.5k 1.1×	1.9k 0.4×	197 0.1×	1.9k 0.8×	831 0.5×	664	11.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Liang Xiao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Liang Xiao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Liang Xiao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Liang Xiao. Liang Xiao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Zeng, Wei, et al.. (2025). Hippocampal functional imaging-derived radiomics features for diagnosing cognitively impaired patients with Parkinson’s disease. BMC Neuroscience. 26(1). 27–27. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2025). Reinforcement Learning-Based False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grids. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 21(4). 3475–3484. 4 indexed citations

Wang, Hongyi, Wei Liu, Jian Huang, et al.. (2024). Tumor suppressor KEAP1 promotes HSPA9 degradation, controlling mitochondrial biogenesis in breast cancer. Cell Reports. 43(7). 114507–114507. 4 indexed citations

Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2024). Reinforcement-Learning-Based APT Defense for Large-Scale Smart Grids. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 12(9). 11917–11925. 1 indexed citations

Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2024). Safe Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Wireless Applications Against Adversarial Communications. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 19. 6824–6839. 3 indexed citations

Lin, Yi‐Hsin, et al.. (2023). Orientation fluctuation in liquid crystal lenses. 3(4). 2 indexed citations

Wang, Ligang, Hui Su, Zhuang Zhang, et al.. (2023). Co−Co Dinuclear Active Sites Dispersed on Zirconium‐doped Heterostructured Co₉S₈/Co₃O₄ for High‐current‐density and Durable Acidic Oxygen Evolution. Angewandte Chemie. 135(49). 7 indexed citations

Yang, Helin, Sheng Zhang, Arokiaswami Alphones, et al.. (2023). An Advanced Integrated Visible Light Communication and Localization System. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 71(12). 7149–7162. 14 indexed citations

Jiang, Zhuoli, Shaojia Song, Xiaobo Zheng, et al.. (2022). Lattice Strain and Schottky Junction Dual Regulation Boosts Ultrafine Ruthenium Nanoparticles Anchored on a N-Modified Carbon Catalyst for H₂ Production. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 144(42). 19619–19626. 241 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2022). Reinforcement Learning Based Network Coding for Drone-Aided Secure Wireless Communications. IEEE Transactions on Communications. 70(9). 5975–5988. 19 indexed citations

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Yang, Helin, Jun Zhao, Zehui Xiong, et al.. (2021). Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning for UAV-Enabled Networks: Learning-Based Joint Scheduling and Resource Management. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 39(10). 3144–3159. 219 indexed citations breakdown →

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Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2020). Deep-Reinforcement-Learning-Based User Profile Perturbation for Privacy-Aware Recommendation. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8(6). 4560–4568. 47 indexed citations

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Liu, Kexin, Xiaozhen Lu, Liang Xiao, & Li Xu. (2020). Learning Based Energy Efficient Radar Power Control Against Deceptive Jamming. 1–6. 5 indexed citations

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Lu, Xiaozhen, et al.. (2019). Reinforcement Learning-Based Microgrid Energy Trading With a Reduced Power Plant Schedule. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 6(6). 10728–10737. 87 indexed citations

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Xiao, Liang, Donghua Jiang, Dongjin Xu, et al.. (2018). Two-Dimensional Antijamming Mobile Communication Based on Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. 67(10). 9499–9512. 99 indexed citations

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Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2018). Learning-Based PHY-Layer Authentication for Underwater Sensor Networks. IEEE Communications Letters. 23(1). 60–63. 43 indexed citations

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Xiao, Liang, Xiaoyue Wan, & Zhu Han. (2017). PHY-Layer Authentication With Multiple Landmarks With Reduced Overhead. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 17(3). 1676–1687. 130 indexed citations

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Xiao, Liang, et al.. (2017). A Secure Mobile Crowdsensing Game With Deep Reinforcement Learning. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 13(1). 35–47. 149 indexed citations

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Xiao, Liang, Caixia Xie, Tianhua Chen, Huaiyu Dai, & H. Vincent Poor. (2016). A Mobile Offloading Game Against Smart Attacks. IEEE Access. 4. 2281–2291. 90 indexed citations

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Xiao, Liang. (2013). Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation of network survivability based on combinational weight. Systems engineering and electronics. 1 indexed citations

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