Short Bio
- Zixiang Xiong received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical
Engineering in 1996 from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
From 1995 to 1997, he was with
Princeton University, first as a visiting
student, then as a research associate.
From 1997 to 1999, he was with the
University of Hawaii.
Since 1999, he has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at Texas A&M University, where he is the Robert M. Kennedy'26 II professor and an associate
department head.
He spent his sabbatical leaves at
Stanford University in spring 2010
and at Monash University, Australia during the 2017-2018 academic year.
He received an NSF Career Award in 1999, an ARO Young Investigator Award in 2000, and an ONR Young Investigator Award in 2001. He is co-recipient of the 2006 IEEE Signal Processing Magazine best paper award, top 10% paper awards at the 2011 and 2015 IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshops, an IBM best student paper award at the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, and the best demo paper award at the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo. He served as associate editor for the IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (1999-2005), the IEEE Trans. on Image Processing (2002-2005), the IEEE Trans. on Signal Processing (2002-2006), the IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (part B) (2005-2009), the IEEE Trans. on Communications (2008-2013), and the IEEE Trans. on Multimedia (2017-2020). He is a fellow of the IEEE.
Noteworthy
- 2025: Robert M. Kennedy’26 II Professorship, Texas A&M University
- 2025: VP for Publications, Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
- 2024: ECE Outstanding Faculty Award, Texas A&M University
- 2024: Members-At-Large of Board of Governors Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)
- 2023: Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA)
- 2018: Best demo paper award, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, San Diego, CA
- 2016: IBM best student paper award, IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Cancun, Mexico
- 2015: Top 10% paper award, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, Xiamen, China
- 2012: Patent Award, Office of Technology Commercialization, Texas A&M University
- 2011: Patent Award, Office of Technology Commercialization, Texas A&M University
- 2011: Top 10% paper award, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop, Hangzhou, China
- 2010: William Keeler Fellow Award, Texas A&M University
- 2006: IEEE Signal Processing Magazine best paper award
- 2006: Elevation to IEEE fellow
- 2003: Faculty Fellow Award, Texas A&M University
- 2002: Select Young Faculty Award, Texas A&M University
- 2001: Eugene Webb Faculty Fellow Award, Texas A&M University
- 2001: ONR Young Investigator Award
- 2000: ARO Young Investigator Award
- 1999: NSF Career Award
- General co-chair, MMSP'17, London-Luton, UK, October 2017
- General co-chair, SIDAS'16, Wuhan, China, April 2016
- Awards chair, Globecom'14, Austin, TX, December 2014
- Tutorial chair, ISIT'10, Austin, TX, June 2010
- Technical program committee co-chair, ITW'07, Lake Tahoe, CA, September 2007
- Publications chair, ICASSP'07, Honolulu, HI, April 2007
- Publications chair, GENSIPS'06, College Station, TX, May 2006
- Chair of video and image processing track,
ICME'03, Baltimore, MD, July 2003
- Distinguished lecturer, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, 2008-2009
- Panelist, Distributed Video Coding: Trends and Challenges,
PCS'07, Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 8, 2007.
- Guest editor, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing: Special Issue on MIMO-Optimized Transmission Systems for Delivering Data and Rich Content, April 2008
- Guest editor, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine: Special Issue on Signal Processing for Multiterminal Communication Systems, September 2007
- Guest editor, EURASIP Signal Processing: Special Issue on Distributed Source Coding, November 2006
- Guest editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing:
Special Issue on Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks, February 2004
- Co-organizer of special session on "Distributed video coding," VCIP'08, San Jose, CA, January 2008
- Co-organizer of a session on "Sensor networks," CTW'07, Sedona, AZ, May 2007
- Co-organizer of a session on "Multiuser wireless networks," CTW'05, Park City, UT, June 2005
- Co-organizer of special session on "Distributed source and joint source channel coding," ICASSP'05, Philadelphia, PA, March 2005
- Co-organizer of special session on "Distributed source coding," ICIP'03, Barcelona, Spain, September 2003
- Co-organizer of special session on
"Networked video," ICME'03, Baltimore, MD, July 2003
- Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, 2002-2003
- Associate editor, Real-Time Imaging, 2000-2002
- Associate editor, International Journal of Image and Graphics, 1999-2002