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Zhang and Alouini receive the Best Paper Awards at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007

Dr. Xi Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, and Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, visiting associate professor at Texas A&M University, Qatar, have been recently selected as the winners of the prestigious Best Paper Award at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007. They will present their papers at the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 conference in November 2007, where they will receive the awards. Only two papers from each Symposium were selected to receive the award.

Zhang and his student co-author, Qinghe Du, won the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 – Wireless Networking Symposium Best Paper Award for their paper titled "Cross-Layer Design Based Rate Control for Mobile Multicast in Cellular Networks."

Zhang began working for the department in 2002 upon receiving his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science (Electrical Engineering – Systems) from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has published more than 100 research papers. He received the NSF CAREER Award in 2004 and the TEES Select Young Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Performance from the College of Engineering at Texas A&M in 2006. He currently is an editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, an associate editor for the IEEE Communications Letters, an editor for Wiley's Journal on Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, an editor for the Journal of Computer Systems, Networking and Communications, an associate editor for Wiley's Journal on Security and Communications Networks and a guest editor for the IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine. Zhang also is a co-chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2008 – Wireless Communications Symposium, a co-chair for IEEE ICC 2008 – Information and Network Security Symposium, a technical program committee chair for IEEE/ACM International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference 2008, the symposium chair for IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks 2008 and poster chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2008. He has also served as a chair/co-chair for numerous other IEEE/ACM conferences and as a technical committee member for more than 50 IEEE/ACM conferences and has frequently served as a panelist for the NSF research-proposals review panels.

Alouini and his co-authors, Amine Laourine (INRS - Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommnunications, Canada), Sofiene Affes (INRS - Centre Energie, Materiaux et Telecommunications, Canada) and Alex Stephenne (Ericsson, Canada) received the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 – Wireless Communication Symposium Best Paper Award for their paper titled "On the Capacity of Generalized-K Fading Channels."

Alouini received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Pasadena, CA, in 1998. He was an associate professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota. In 2005, he joined the electrical engineering program at TAMUQ, where his current research interests include the design and performance analysis of wireless communication systems.

The IEEE GLOBECOM has been the flagship conference of the IEEE Communications Society for 50 years, which is a premier IEEE conference focusing on the cutting-edge research in the areas of Communications and Networking Theories, Systems, and Engineering Applications. The IEEE Communications Society will mark the 50th Anniversary of its annual IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2007) in Washington, D.C. from 26 to 30 November 2007. President George Bush has extended his personal congratulations to the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 on its upcoming 50th anniversary celebration, citing the conference for its international achievement in the "development and advancement of global communications" as well as "promoting achievement and innovation in technology and engineering." President Bush has declared the week of 26 November 2007 the IEEE Global Communications Week. To view President Bush's proclamations, click here.

The IEEE GLOBECOM 2007 is an information-rich conference which will span the entire range of global achievements, innovations, and advances in the areas of communications and networking technologies, offering in-depth information on the latest developments which are promoting the next generation voice, data, image, and multimedia communications and networking techniques.