Xi Zhang (IEEE, S'89-SM'98) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xidian
University, Xi'an, China, the M.S. degree from Lehigh University,
Bethlehem, PA, all in electrical engineering and computer science, and the
Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (Electrical
Engineering-Systems) from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
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He is currently an Associate Professor and the Founding Director of the
Networking and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical
and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station. He was an
Assistant Professor and the Founding Director of the Division of Computer
Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science, Beijing Information Technology Engineering Institute, China, from
1984 to 1989. He was a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical
Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, James Cook University,
Australia, under a Fellowship from the Chinese National Commission of
Education. He was with with the Networks and Distributed 
Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hills, NJ, and
with AT&T Laboratories Research, Florham Park, NJ, in 1997. He has
published more than 190 research papers in the areas of wireless networks
and communications systems, mobile computing, network protocol design and
modeling, statistical communications, random signal processing,
information theory, and control theory and systems.

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Prof. Zhang received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award in
2004 for his research in the areas of mobile wireless and multicast
networking and systems. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 
IEEE Communications Society. He received the Best Paper Awards in the 
IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, and IEEE WCNC 2010, respectively.
He also received the TEES Select Young Faculty Award for
Excellence in Research Performance from the Dwight Look College of
Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2006. He is
currently serving as an Editor for the 
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS, 
an Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS, 
an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR
TECHNOLOGY, 
a Guest Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN
COMMUNICATIONS for the special issue on "Broadband Wireless Communications 
for High Speed Vehicles", 
a Guest Editor for the IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN
COMMUNICATIONS for the special issue on "wireless video transmissions", 
an Associate Editor for the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS, a Leading Guest Editor
for the IEEE Communications Magazine for the special issue on "Advances in 
Cooperative Wireless Networking", a Guest Editor for the IEEE WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS MAGAZINE for the special issue on "next generation of CDMA versus OFDMA for 4G wireless applications"
an Editor for the
JOHN WILEY'S JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING, an
Editor for the JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS, NETWORKING, AND
COMMUNICATIONS, and an Associate Editor for the JOHN WILEY'S JOURNAL ON
SECURITY AND COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, an Area Editor for the ELSEVIER Journal 
on Computer Communications, and a Guest Editor for JOHN WILEY'S JOURNAL ON WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND
MOBILE COMPUTING for the special issue on "next generation wireless
communications and mobile computing". He has frequently served as the
Panelist on the U.S. National Science Foundation Research-Proposal Review
Panels. 

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Prof. Zhang is serving or has served as the Technical Program Committee (TPC)
Co-Chair for the IEEE INFOCOM 2013, TPC Area Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012,
the Technical Program Committee Chair for the IEEE Globecom 2011,
the General Chair for IEEE ICC 2011 - Workshop on Advanced
Networking Technologies for Smart-Services Based Clouding Computing,
TPC Co-Chair for the IEEE ICDCS 2011 - Workshop on Data Center
Performance, Panel/Demo/Poster Chairs for the ACM MobiCom 2011,
TPC Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2010, 
General Chair for the ACM QShine 2010,
TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2009 - Mini-Conference, Symposium Co-Chair for 
IEEE Globecom 2008 - Wireless Communications Symposium, Symposium Co-Chair 
for the IEEE ICC 2008 - Information and Network Security Symposium, 
Symposium Chair for IEEE/ACM International Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless 
Networks Symposium 2006, 2007, and 2008, respectively, the TPC Chair for 
IEEE/ACM IWCMC 2006, 2007, and 2008, respectively, the Poster Chair for 
IEEE INFOCOM 2008, the Student Travel Grants Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2007, 
the Panel Co-Chair for IEEE ICCCN 2007, the Poster Chair for IEEE/ACM MSWiM 
2007 and IEEE QShine 2006, Executive Committee Co-Chair for QShine, the 
Publicity Chair for IEEE/ACM QShine 2007 and IEEE WirelessCom 2005, and the 
Panelist on the Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks and Multimedia Communications
at IEEE ICCCN 2007 and WiFi-Hotspots/WLAN and QoS Panel at IEEE QShine
2004. He has served as the TPC members for more than 70 IEEE/ACM
conferences, including IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE Globecom, IEEE ICC, IEEE WCNC,
IEEE VTC, IEEE/ACM QShine, IEEE WoWMoM, IEEE ICCCN, etc.

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Prof. Zhang is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

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