His research is primarily in making cyberspace more secure and trustworthy. He is especially interested in mathematical modeling and analysis of macroscopic cybersecurity, and devising microscopic practical mechanisms including provably-secure cryptographic protocols to counter advanced cyber attacks (including malware). His research has been funded by AFOSR, ARO, NSF and ONR. He is a PC co-chair of Inscrypt'13, and has served on the Program Committees of 70+ international conferences and workshops. He is currently an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC) and International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN). He earned his PhD in Computer Science from Fudan University. Please refer to http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~shxu for more information about his research.