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Dr. Yang Guo (Fed)
Computer Scientist
Dr. Yang Guo is a computer scientist with the Computer Security Division (CSD) at NIST. He has over 20 years of R&D and project management experience in industry and government agencies. Before NIST, he was a member of technical staff at Bell Labs and a Principal Scientist at Technicolor/Thomson Corporate Research. His research interests span broadly distributed systems and networking, focusing on cybersecurity, High-performance Computing (HPC), software-defined networking (SDN), and AI/ML. He has published over 80 peer-reviewed papers in renowned technical journals and conferences and holds 18 US patents. He leads the NIST High-performance Computing Security Working Group (HPCSec-WG).
Current Projects:
- High-Performance Computing Security Working Group: risk management and security guidance
- AI/ML: applications to cybersecurity, system design and optimization
- Software Defined Networking: measurement and security
Selected Publications:
- Yang Guo, Jeremy Licata, Jeff Neel, Gary Key, James Waterman, Ian Lee, Catherine Hinton, David Shrader, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Ted Bohrer, Katsutoshi Ishisoko, Kyle Earley, Aron Warren, Tony DeNardo, Ian Czarnezki, Erik Deumens, "NIST SP 800-234 (Initial Public Draft): High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security Overlay," May 2025.
- Yang Guo, "A review of Machine Learning-based Zero-day Attack Detection: Challenges and Future Directions," Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier, Volume 198, 2023.
- Yang Guo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Lowell Wofford, Rickey Gregg, Gary Key, Antwan Clark, Catherine Hinton, Andrew Prout, Albert Reuther, Ryan Adamson, Aron Warren, Purushotham Bangalore, Erik Deumens, Csilla Farkas, "NIST SP 800-223: High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security: Architecture, Threat Analysis, and Security Posture," February 2024.
- Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo and Songqing Chen, "Towards Software Defined Measurement in Data Centers: A Comparative Study of Designs, Implementation, and Evaluation," in IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2022, doi: 10.1109/TCC.2022.3181890.
- Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Qun Li, Kun Sun and Songqing Chen, "EZPath: Expediting Container Network Traffic via Programmable Switches in Data Centers," in IFIP Networking Conference 2022.
- Zheng Wang and Yang Guo, "Neural Networks Based Domain Name Generation," Journal of Information Security and Applications, Elsevier, Volume 61, 2021.
- Yang Guo, Alexander L. Stolyar, Anwar Walid, “Online VM Auto-Scaling Algorithms for Application Hosting in a Cloud," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC), VOL. 8, NO. 3, JULY-SEPTEMBER 2020.
- Yang Guo, Franklin Liu, An Wang, and Hang Liu, "AccuPIPE: Accurate Heavy Flow Detection in the Data Plane Using Programmable Switches," IEEE NOMS, 2020.
- An Wang, Zili Zha, Yang Guo, and Songqing Chen, "Software Defined Networking (SDN) Enhanced Edge Computing: A Network Centric Survey," Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 107, Issue 8, 2019.
- Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Doug Montgomery, Songqing Chen, "BotSifter: An SDN-based Online Bot Detection Framework in Data Centers," IEEE CNS 2019.
- Zili Zha, An Wang, Yang Guo, Doug Montgomery, Songqing Chen, "Instrumenting Open vSwitch with Monitoring Capabilities: Design and Challenges," ACM SOSR 2018.
- An Wang, Yang Guo, Songqing Chen, Fang Hao, T.V. Lakshman, Doug Montgomery, Kotikalapudi Sriram, "vPROM: VSwitch enhanced programmable measurement in SDN," IEEE ICNP 2017.
- A. Wang, Y. Guo, F. Hao, T. Lakshman, S. Chen, "UMON: Flexible and Fine Grained Traffic Monitoring in Open vSwitch," ACM CoNEXT, 2015.
- Yang Guo, Alexander L. Stolyar, Anwar Walid, “Shadow-Routing Based Dynamic Algorithms for Virtual Machine Placement in a Networked Cloud," IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2015 (conference version appeared in INFOCOM 2013).
- Vijay Kumar Adhikari, Yang Guo, Fang, Hao, Volker Hilt, Zhi-Li Zhang, Matteo Varvello, Moritz Steiner, “Measurement Study of Netflix, Hulu, and a Tale of Three CDNs," IEEE/ACM Transaction on Networking (ToN), 2015, (Corresponding Author, conference version appeared in INFOCOM 2012).
- An Wang, Yang Guo, Fang Hao, T.V. Lakshman, Songqing Chen, "Scotch: Scaling up SDN Control-Plane using vSwitch Based Overlay," ACM CoNEXT, Sydney, Australia, December 2014.
- Xiwang Yang, Yang Guo, Yong Liu, "Bayesian-inference Based Recommendation in Online Social Networks," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Volume 24, Number 4, Page 642-651, 2013.
- Yang Guo, Chao Liang, Yong Liu, "Hierarchically Clustered P2P Video Streaming: Design, implementation, and evaluation," Computer Networks, Journal, Elsevier, 56(15): 3432-3445 (2012).
- Sha Hua, Yang Guo, Yong Liu, Hang Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar, “Scalable Video Multicast in Hybrid 3G/Ad-hoc Networks,” IEEE Transaction on Multimedia, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 2011.
Awards
- Bell Labs Team Work Award, for technical excellence of CloudBand team.
- Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communication (ICC).
- Technicolor Fellowship Network, Technical leaders in Technicolor.