Xi Zhang (professor)
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, Texas A&M University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to quality of service (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. 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 IEEE GLOBECOM 2020, IEEE ICC 2018, IEEE GLOBECOM 2014, IEEE GLOBECOM 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.