Xi Zhang, Professor, IEEE Fellow

                                           Address:   331D WERC                                                                

                                                             Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

                                                             Texas A&M University                                          

                                                             College Station, TX 77843-3259, U.S.A.

             

                                            E-mail:    xizhang at ece dot tamu dot edu

                                            URL:       https://people.engr.tamu.edu/xizhang/index.html

                                            Phone:     (979) 458-1416 (VOICE)

                                                             (979) 845-2630 (FAX)

Educations and Qualifications: 

• Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical Engineering--Systems), The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Academic Family Tree
• M.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
• M.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi'an, China
• B.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

Major Awards and Honors:

• IEEE Fellow for Contributions to the Quality of Service (QoS) Theory in Mobile Wireless Networks
• U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) EARLY CAREER Award in 2004
• IEEE BEST READINGS (receiving top citation rate) PAPER for one of his IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications papers in Cognitive Radio Networks and Statistical QoS Provisioning Over Wireless Networks since 2008
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conferences (GLOBECOM) 2024, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conferences (GLOBECOM) 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
• Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 2018
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2014, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
• Best Paper Award in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 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
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Communications Society
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Vehicular Technology Society
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications BEST PAPER AWARD Candidate on Statistical QoS Provisioning for Multimedia Transmission Over Multicast Wireless Networks, 2010
• IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications BEST PAPER AWARD Candidate on Statistical QoS Provisioning for Relay Wireless Networks, 2007
• IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) BEST PAPER AWARD Candidate (on Full-Duplex Based Statistical Delay-Bounded QoS Provisioning for Cognitive Radio Wireless Networks), Austin, Texas, U.S.A., 2014
• IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN) BEST PAPER AWARD Candidate (on Power-Efficiency Data Gathering Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks), Arlington, Virginia, U.S.A., 2006
• Electrical & Computer Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award from Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, 2020
• 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.

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Professional Experiences

Professor Xi Zhang's Wikipedia

Major Research Interests:

• Statistics and Information Theory for Quality-of-Services (QoS) Over 6G/Next-Generation Wireless Networks
• Joint Statistical Delay and Error-Rate Bounded QoS-Exponents in Non-Asymptotic Regimes
• Integrated Sensing and Communications (ISAC) Systems Using Finite Blocklength Coding (FBC)
• Sequential Hypothesis Testing for Metaverse Wireless Networks
• Massive Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (mURLLC)
• Massive MIMO, Cell-Free Massive MIMO, mmWave, THz, Nano, and UAV Over 6G Mobile Wireless Networks
• Multi-Tier/Cloud/Edge-Computing/Caching Over Distributed Computing Systems and Data Centers
• Network Function-Virtualizations (NFV) and Software-Defined Networks (SDN) Architectures
• Machine Learning for Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces (IRS) Over 6G/Next-Generation Mobile Wireless Networks
• Statistical Security-QoS Provisioning for mURLLC
• 3D Wireless Camera Sensor Networks for Multiple Mobile Target Tracking

Major IEEE Journal Editorial Boards and Guest Editors:

• Editor for IEEE Transactions on Communications
• Editor for IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
• Editor for IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
• Editor for IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking
• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
• Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) (the Special Issue on "Broadband Wireless Communications for High Speed Vehicles")
• Guest Editor for IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC) (the Special Issue on "Resource Allocation for Wireless Video Traffic")
• Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (the Special Issue on "AI-Driven 6G Mobile Wireless Networks: Key Enabling Theories, Architectures, Protocols, and Techniques")
• Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine (the Special Issue on "Underwater Wireless Communications and Networks: Theory and Applications")
• Lead Guest Editor for IEEE Communications Magazine (the Special Issue on "Advances in Cooperative Wireless Networking")
• Guest Editor for IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine (the Special Issue of "Next Generation CDMA vs. OFDMA for 4G Wireless Applications").
• Associate Editor for IEEE Communications Letters

Major IEEE/ACM Technical Conference/Symposia Chair Positions:

• General Chair for IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2014 - International Workshop on Digital Twin-Enabled 6G Multi-Tier Distributed Computing Systems, July 14 - 16, 2024, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
• General Chair for IEEE/ACM 2nd International Conferenceon on Networks, Communications, and Information Technology (CNCIT) 2023, June 15 - 17, 2023, China
• Tutorials Chair for ACM 22nd International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) 2019, November 25 - 29, 2019, Miami Beach, USA
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2019 - Workshop on Integrating Edge Computing, Caching, and Offloading in Next Generation Networks (IECCON), April 29 - May 2, 2019, Paris, France
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - Workshop on Integrating Edge Computing, Caching, and Offloading in Next Generation Networks (IECCON), April 15-19, 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2017 - Workshop on Integrating Edge Computing, Caching, and Offloading in Next Generation Networks (IECCON), May 1-4, 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2016 - Workshop on Wireless for Big Data and Big Data for Wireless (WBDW), Washington, D.C., USA
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2015 - Workshop on Mobile Cloud and Functional Virtulization, Hong Kong
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE ICC 2015 - Workshop on Green Communications and Networks with Energy Harvesting, Smart Grids, and Renewable Energies, London, U.K.
• TPC Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2014 - Workshop on Mobile Cloud Computing, Toronto, Canada
• Area TPC Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2012, Orlando, Florida, USA
• Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE GLOBECOM 2011, Houston, Texas, USA
• Panel and Poster/Demo Chair for ACM MOBICOM 2011, Las Vegas, USA
• General Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2011 - Workshop on Green Communications and Networking
• General Chair for IEEE ICC 2011 - Workshop on Advanced Networking & Smart-Services Based Clouding Computing
• Technical Prgogram Committee Co-Chair for IEEE ICDCS 2011 - Workshop on Data Center Performance
• Technical Program Committee Vice-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2010, San Diego, USA
• General Chair for QShine 2010, Houston, Texas, USA
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2009 Mini-Confernce, Rio, Brizal
• Technical Program Chair for IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS) 2009 - Wireless Sensors and Ad-hoc Networks
• Steering Committee Co-Chair for ACM QShine 2009
• Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2008 - Wireless Communications Symposium
• Symposium Co-Chair for IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2008 - Information and Network Security Symposium
• Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE/ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IEEE/ACM IWCMC 2008)
• Demo Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2008
• Publicity Chair for ACM QShine 2008
• Symposium Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Cross-Layer Optimized Wireless Networks 2007
• Student Travel Grants Committee Co-Chair for IEEE INFOCOM 2007
• Technical Program Committee Chair for IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2007)
• Technical Panel Chair for IEEE 16th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks 2007
• Poster Co-Chair for IEEE/ACM 10th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM) 2007
• Publicity Chair for IEEE QShine 2007
• Symposium Chair for IEEE International Symposium on Cross-Layer Designs and Protocols 2006
• Technical Program Committee Co-Chair for IEEE International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2006)
• Poster Chair for IEEE QShine 2006
• Publicity Co-Chair for IEEE WirelessCom 2005

Invited IEEE/ACM Conferences Keynote Speech Presentations:

• IEEE/ACM 2nd International Conferenceon on Networks, Communications, and Information Technology (CNCIT) 2023, June 15-17, 2023, Qinghai, China, Keynote Speech Title: "Key QoS-Enabling Techniques for 6G Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• ACM 7th International Conference on Multimedia Communications Technologies (ICMCT) 2022, July 7-9, 2022, Xiamen, China, Keynote Speech Title: "Advances in QoS-Driven Techniques for Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE International Conference on Networks, Communications, and Information Technology (CNCIT) 2022, June 17-19, 2022, Beijing, China, Keynote Speech Title: "Challenges and Opportunities for QoS-Driven Techniques for Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• ACM The 7th International Conference On Communications and Information Processing (ICCIP) 2021, December 16-18, 2021, Beijing, China, Keynote Speech Title: "Emerging QoS-Driven Techniques for 6G Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE Information Communication Technologies Conference (ICTC) 2021 , May 7-9, 2021, Nanjing, China, Keynote Speech Title: "QoS-Driven 6G Promising Candidate Techniques Over Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE ICCCR 2021, January 8, 2021 - January 10, 2021, Shanghai, China, Keynote Speech Title: "AI-Driven 6G Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE ICCSN 2020 , June 12-17, 2020, Chongqing, China, Keynote Speech Title: "QoS-Driven ICN-NFV-SDN Integration for Edge-AI Enabled Multimedia Big-Data Services Over 5G/6G Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE INFOCOM 2018 - KCN, April 15-19, 2018, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Keynote Speech Title: "Machine Learning Based 5G Big Data Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"

Invited IEEE Conferences Tutorials Presentations:

• IEEE GLOBECOM 2024, Cape Town, South Africa, Decemeber 9-12, 2024, Tutorial Title: "Integrated Statistical QoS Provisioning for mURLLC Over 6G Mobile Networks in Non-Asymptotic Regime"
• IEEE ICC 2024, Denver, Colorado, U.S.A., June 9-14, 2024, Tutorial Title: "Joint Statistical Delay and Error-Rate Bounded QoS - The New Paradigm for mURLLC Over 6G Mobile Networks in Finite Blocklength Regime"
• IEEE MILCOM 2022, Rockville, Maryland, U.S.A., November 28 - December 2, 2022, Tutorial Title: "QoS-Driven Promising Techniques for 6G Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2021, Madrid, Spain, December 7-11, 2021, Tutorial Title: "QoS-Driven 6G Promising Techniques Over Multimedia Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, Ireland, Tutorial Title: "QoS Driven Based Information-Centric Virtualization for Software-Defined Multimedia Big Data Services Over 5G & Beyond Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2019, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS-Driven Architectures, Protocols, Techniques, and Implementations for Multimedia Big Data Services Over 5G & Beyond Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) 2019 (Nov. 12-14, 2019), Dallas, Texas, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS-Driven Based Information-Centric Virtualization for Software-Defined Multimedia Big Data Services Over 5G & Beyond Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2016, Washington, D.C., USA, Tutorial Title: "Heterogeneous Statistical Quality-of-Service Provisioning for Cognitive Radio Networks Based Multimedia 5G Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE MILCOM 2015, Tampa, FL, USA, Tutorial Title: "Heterogeneous Statistical Quality-of-Service Provisioning for Time-Sensitive Multimedia Transmissions Over Cognitive-Radio Based 5G Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE VTC 2015-Fall, Boston, MA, USA, Tutorial Title: "Full-Duplex Communications for Statstical Delay-Bounded QoS Provisioning Over D2D and CRNs Based 5G Multimedia Wireless Networks"
• IEEE WCNC 2015, New Orleans, LA, USA, Tutorial Title: "Heterogeneous Statistical Quality-of-Service Provisioning Over Cognitive-Radio Based 5G Mobile Wireless Networks"
• IEEE MILCOM 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks"
• IEEE MILCOM 2013, San Diego, CA, USA, Tutorial Title: "Effective Capacity: A unified Cross-Layer Optimization Modeling Technique for Multimedia Wireless Networks"
• IEEE GLOBECOM 2012, Anaheim, CA, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks"
• IEEE MILCOM 2012, Orlando, FL, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks"
• IEEE MILCOM 2011, Baltimore, MD, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks"
• IEEE VTC 2011-Fall, San Francisco, CA, USA, Tutorial Title: "QoS Provisioning in Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks"
• IEEE ICC 2010, Cape Town, South Africa, Tutorial Title: "Statistical Delay-Bounded QoS Provisioning in Wireless Networks: Effective Capacity and QoS-Driven Resource Allocations"
• IEEE VTC 2010-Fall, Ottawa, Canada, Tutorial Title: "QoS Provisioning in Intelligent Vehicular Networks"

Major IEEE/ACM Technical Program Committee Members:

• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2025, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, June 22-27, 2025
• IEEE International Conference in Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2022, Bologna, Italy, July 10 - 14, 2022
• IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT) 2020, Los Angeles, California, USA, June 21-26, 2020
• IEEE INFOCOM 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005
• IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS) 2019, Dallas, TX, July 7-10, 2019
• ACM MobiHoc 2009
• ACM International Conference on UnderWater Networks and Systems (WUWNet) 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011
• 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 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