Xi Zhang (Chinese: 张曦) is a Full Professor and the Founding Director of the Networking and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

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. He is a Fellow of the

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for contributions to

quality of service Quality of service (QoS) is the description or measurement of the overall performance of a service, such as a telephony or computer network, or a cloud computing service, particularly the performance seen by the users of the network. To quantitat ...

(QoS) in mobile wireless networks. His research interests include statistical delay-bounded QoS provisioning for multimedia mobile wireless networks, edge computing, finite blocklength coding theory, in-network caching, and offloading over 5G mobile wireless networks.

Education

* Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Electrical Engineering—Systems), The

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

, in

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, U.S. (Advisor: Prof. Kang G. Shin) * M.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

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, in

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, U.S. * M.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,

Xidian University Xidian University () is a public research university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, China, that is administered by the Ministry of Education of China. Xidian focuses on electronics and information education and research, and has programs covering engineer ...

, in

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* B.S., in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Xidian University, Xi'an, China

Research Works

He has published more than 400 research papers on wireless networks and communications systems, network protocol design and modeling, statistical communications, random signal processing, information theory, and control theory and systems. He received Best Paper Awards at international conferences of

GLOBECOM The Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) is an annual international academic conference organised by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Communications Society. The first GLOBECOM was organised by the Communications Socie ...

2020, IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, IEEE

2009, IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, and IEEE WCNC 2010, respectively. One of his IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications papers has been listed as the IEEE Best Readings (receiving the top citation rate) Paper on Wireless Cognitive Radio Networks and Statistical QoS Provisioning over Mobile Wireless Networking.

Major Awards and Honors

IEEE Fellow As of 2019, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has 5,082 members designated Fellow, each of whom is associated with one of the 41 societies under the IEEE. The Fellow grade of membership is the highest level of membershi ...

for Contributions to the Quality of Service (QoS) Theory in Mobile Wireless Networks * U.S.

National Science Foundation The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an independent agency of the United States government that supports fundamental research and education in all the non-medical fields of science and engineering. Its medical counterpart is the National I ...

(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 Conference (GLOBECOM) 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020 * Best Paper Award in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018, Kansas City, MO, 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 Journal on Selected Areas in Communications BEST PAPER AWARD Candidate on Statistical QoS Provisioning for Multimedia Transmission Over Multicast Wireless Networks, 2010 * 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 Relay Wireless Networks, 2007 * 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

References

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