Big data, distributed computing, cyber physical systems, Internet of Things, data streaming, cybersecurity.

Qixuan Zhu received the B.S. degree from Tianjin University of Technology and Education, Tianjin, China, and the M.S. degree from The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA, all in electrical and computer engineering. She received the Ph.D. degree under the supervision of Professor Xi Zhang in the Networking and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA. She is the recipient of the Best Paper Awards from IEEE ICC 2018 and IEEE GLOBECOM 2025. She also received the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study Heep Graduate Fellowship Award and Dr. Christa U. Pandey’84 Fellowship from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX.

• Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2025 (cybersecurity over cyber physical systems and IoT)

• Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018 (distributed computing over data center networks)

• Heep Graduate Fellowship Award, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, Texas A&M University, 2018

• Dr. Christa U. Pandey’84 Fellowship, Texas A&M University, 2021