Zixiang Xiong (S’91–M’96–SM’02–F’07) received the Ph.D. degree in electrical
engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996.
From 1995 to 1997, he was with Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, first as a
visiting student, and 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, Texas A&M University, College Station, where he is currently a Professor. He spent summers 1998 and 1999 with Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, and his sabbatical leave with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, during spring 2010. His research interests are network information theory, code designs and applications, networked multimedia, and genomic signal processing.
Dr. Xiong received the National Science Foundation Career Award in 1999,
an Army Research Office Young Investigator Award in 2000, and an Office
of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 2001. He also received the
2006 IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING MAGAZINE Best Paper Award. He served as
an Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY from 1999 to 2005, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON
IMAGE PROCESSING from 2002 to 2005, the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SIGNAL
PROCESSING from 2002 to 2006, and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS,
MAN, AND CYBERNETICS (PART B) from 2005 to 2009. He is currently an
Associate Editor for the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS. He was
the Publications Chair of ICASSP 2007, the Technical Program Committee
Co-Chair of ITW 2007, and the Tutorial Chair of ISIT 2010.