Northeastern University
Portrait of Xiaolin Xu 

Xiaolin Xu (徐啸林)

Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University

My group develops secure and efficient computing systems at the intersection of hardware security, trustworthy AI, privacy-preserving computing, and emerging machine learning architectures.

Hardware SecurityTrustworthy AIPrivacy-Preserving ComputingEfficient AI Systems
To prospective students:

I welcome highly motivated students interested in security, privacy-preserving computing, machine learning, computer architecture, FPGA, and IoT. Full financial support is available. Before reaching out, please review the application notes.

What's New

  • 07/2026 One paper accepted for publication in EMSOFT’26.

  • 07/2026 One paper accepted for publication in ICCAD’26.

  • 06/2026 Two papers accepted for publication in ECCV’26.

  • 06/2026 Action Editor of Transactions on Machine Learning Research.

  • 04/2026 Congrats to Dr. Tong Zhou on officially earning the title!

  • 03/2026 One paper accepted for publication in FCCM’26.

  • 01/2026 Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.

  • 01/2026 One paper accepted for publication in TMLR’26.

  • 11/2025 One paper accepted for publication in HOST’26.

Contact

Office: 424 Dana Research Center