Xi Zhang, Associate Professor

Address:

331 WERC

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Texas A&M University

College Station, TX 77843-3259

E-mail:

xizhang@ece.tamu.edu

URL:

www.ece.tamu.edu/xizhang

Phone:

(979) 458-1416 (VOICE)

(979) 845-2630 (FAX)

Education:

• Ph.D., Department of Electricl Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical Engineering--Systems), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Advisor: Professor Kang G. Shin

Awards and Honors:

• U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) EARLY CAREER Award in 2004.
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Communications Society .
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBCOM) 2009, Hawaii, USA, 2009.
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Wireless Communications and Networks Conference (WCNC) 2010, Sydney, Australia, 2010.
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2007, Washington, D.C., USA, 2007.
• TEES Select Young Faculty Award for Excellence in Research from College of Engineering at Texas A&M University (2006).

Publications:

Selected publications are available online here.

Short BIO:

Professional Experiences

Editorial Boards and Guest Editor:

• Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Communications
• Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) (the Special Issue on "Broadband Wireless Communications for High Speed Vehicles")
• Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) (the Special Issue on "Resource Allocation for Wireless Video Traffic")
• Guest Editor for the IEEE Communications Magazine (the Special Issue on "Advances in Cooperative Wireless Networking")
• Associate Editor for the IEEE Communications Letters

Chair Positions:

• Area TPC Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Technical Program Committee Chair for the IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston, Texas, USA
• Panel and Poster/Demo Chair for the ACM MOBICOM 2011, Las Vegas, USA
• General Co-Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2011 - Workshop on Green Communications and Networking
• General Chair for the IEEE ICC 2011 - Workshop on Advanced Networking & Smart-Services Based Clouding Computing
• Technical Prgogram Committee Co-Chair for the IEEE ICDCS 2011 - Workshop on Data Center Performance
• Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, USA
• General Chair for the QShine 2010, Houston, Texas, USA
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-Confernce, Rio, Brizal
• Technical Program Chair for the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) 2009 - Wireless Sensors and Ad-hoc Networks
• Steering Committee Co-Chair for the ACM QShine 2009
• Symposium Co-Chair for the IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom) 2008 - Wireless Communications Symposium
• Symposium Co-Chair for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008 - Information and Network Security Symposium
• Technical Program Committee Chair for the IEEE/ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IEEE/ACM IWCMC 2008)
• Demo Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2008
• Publicity Chair for the ACM QShine 2008
• Symposium Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks 2007
• Student Travel Grants Committee Co-Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2007
• Technical Program Committee Chair for the IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2007)
• Technical Panel Chair for the IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks 2007
• Poster Co-Chair for the IEEE/ACM 10th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) 2007
• Publicity Chair for the IEEE QShine 2007
• Symposium Chair for the IEEE International Symposium on Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols 2006
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for the IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006)
• Poster Chair for the IEEE QShine 2006
• Publicity Co-Chair for the IEEE WirelessCom 2005

Technical Program Committee Members:

• IEEE INFOCOM 2011
• IEEE INFOCOM 2010
• IEEE INFOCOM 2009
• ACM MobiHoc 2009
• IEEE INFOCOM 2008
• IEEE Globecom 2008 - Wireless Networking Symposium (WNS) Symposium
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008 - Signal Processing for Communications Symposium
• IEEE Wireles Communications and Networks Conference (WCNC) 2008
• IEEE Globecom 2008 - Computer and Communications Network Security (CCNS) Symposium
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008 - Wireless Communications Symposium
• IEEE Globecom 2008 - Signal Processing for Communications (SPC) Symposium
• IEEE INFOCOM 2007
• IEEE Globecom 2007 - Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007) - Communications QoS, Reliability, and Performance Modelling
• IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007) - Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks
• IEEE/ACM 10th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) 2007
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007) - Computer and Communications Networks Security
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN '2007)
• IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007) - Signal Processing for Communications
• IEEE QShine 2007
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC 2007) - Mobile Networks Symposium
• IEEE International Conference on Communication System Software and Middleware (COMSWARE) 2007
• IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-2007)
• IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2007 (IEEE WCNC '2007)
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN '2006)
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - General Conference on Emerging Technologies
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - Network Security Systems
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2006 - Wireless Communications
• IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2006)
• IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2006)
• IEEE International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications 2006)
• IEEE QShine 2006
• IEEE ICC 2006 - Next Generation Mobile Networks Symposium
• IEEE ICC 2006 - Wireless Communications Symposium
• IEEE ICC 2006 - Signal Processing for Communications
• IEEE ICC 2006 - Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium
• IEEE QShine 2005
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 - Wireless Communications Symposium
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 - Computer and Network Security Symposium
• IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) 2005 - Wireless Access and Commnications Symposium
• IEEE EMERGING NETWORKS, TECHNOLOGIES & STANDARDS SYMPOSIUM 2005

Teaching:

Spring 2012 ECEN 619: Internet Protocols & Modeling

Spring 2012 ECEN 489: Computer & Wireless Communications Networks

FALL 2011 ECEN 621: Mobile Wireless Networks

Spring 2011 ECEN 619-600: Internet Protocols & Modeling

Spring 2011 ECEN 621: Mobile Wireless Networks

Fall 2010 ECEN 621: Mobile Wireless Networks

Spring 2010 ECEN 619-600: Internet Protocols & Modeling

Spring 2010 ECEN 621: Mobile Wireless Networks

Fall 2009 ECEN 489: Computer & Wireless Communications Networks

Spring 2009 EEEN 621-600: Mobile Wireless Networks

Spring 2009 ECEN 619-600: Internet Protocols & Modeling

Fall 2008 ELEN 489-501: Computer & Wireless Communications Networks

Spring 2008 ELEN 248: Introduction to Digital Systems Design

Fall 2007 ELEN 689-605: Mobile Wireless Networking

Fall 2006 ELEN 689-612: Mobile Wireless Networking

Fall 2005 ELEN 689-602: Mobile Wireless Networking

Spring 2005 ELEN 689-611: Mobile Wireless Networking

Fall 2004 ELEN 689-606: Internet Protocols and Modeling

Fall 2003 ELEN 689-610: Internet Architectures, Protocols, and Modeling

Spring 2003 ELEN 449: Microprocessor Systems Design