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College of Business
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, RB 258A
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-4740
Email: xuliang@fiu.edu
Xueping Liang
Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics
College of Business
Florida International University
Modesto A. Maidique Campus
11200 S.W. 8th St, RB 258A
Miami, FL 33199
Phone: (305) 348-4740
Email: xuliang@fiu.edu
Education
Ph.D. in Computer System Architecture & Information Security
Univesity of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Areas of Expertise
- Blockchain
- Cybersecurity
- Smart Cities
Professional Activities
Dr. Xueping (Susan) Liang is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics at Florida International University. She earned her Ph.D. in 2019 from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and her B.S. in 2013 from Beijing Institute of Technology.
Dr. Liang's research focuses on cybersecurity, Blockchain, AI/machine learning, data provenance mechanisms, and privacy protection. Her work is particularly centered on designing distributed consensus models in Blockchain technology, leveraging AI to enhance cyber-resiliency in healthcare and IoT environments, and addressing practical security challenges in cloud computing and smart cities.
She has published over 30 conference and journal papers, as well as book chapters, in reputable venues. Notably, one of her papers was recognized as one of the “Top 50 Influential Papers in Blockchain” at the BlockchainConnect Conference in San Francisco, January 2019. Her research has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.
Courses Taught
- Data Base Applications
- Data Warehousing
- Ethical Hacking for Business
- Secure Cloud Computing and Virtualization Manageme
- Security Risk Management and Organizational Cyber
Publications
Liang X.
(2024).
Designing A Blockchain Empowered Telehealth Artifact for Decentralized Identity Management and Trustworthy Communication: An Interdisciplinary Approach.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
.
Wang, X., Yang, X., Liang, X., Zhang, X., & Zhang, W.
(2024).
Combating Alert Fatigue with AlertPro: Context-Aware Alert Prioritization Using Reinforcement Learning for Multi-Step Attack Detection.
Computers & Security
.
Liang, X., Konstantinou, C., Shetty, S., Bandara, E., & Sun, R.
(2023).
Decentralizing Cyber Physical Systems for Resilience: An Innovative Case Study from A Cybersecurity Perspective.
Computers & Security
.
Liang, X., Zhao, J., Chen, Y., Bandara, E., & Shetty, S.
(2023).
Architectural Design of a Blockchain-enabled Federated Learning Platform for Algorithmic Fairness in Predictive Healthcare: A Design Science Study.
Journal of Medical Internet Research
.
Bandara, E., Liang, X., Shetty, S., Mukkamala, R., Foytik, P., Ranasinghe, N., & De, Z. K.
(2022).
Octopus: privacy preserving peer-to-peer transactions system with InterPlanetary file system (IPFS).
International Journal of Information Security
.