Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-3259, U.S.A.
331D, Wisenbaker Engineering Building
E-mail: xizhang at ece dot tamu dot edu Tel: (979) 458-1416
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
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
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 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, IEEE Global Communications Conferences (GLOBECOM) 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conferences (GLOBECOM) 2024, Cape Town, South Africa, 2024
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conferences (GLOBECOM) 2020, Taipei, Taiwan, 2020
Best Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2018, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, 2018
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2014, Austin, Texas, USA, 2014
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2009, Hawaii, USA, 2009
Best Paper Award, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networks Conference (WCNC) 2010, Sydney, Australia, 2010
Best Paper Award, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2007, Washington, D.C., USA, 2007
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Communications Society
IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, 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
Outstanding Faculty Award, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, 2020
TEES Select Young Faculty Award, Texas A&M University, 2006