Electrical engineering professor receives NSF CAREER
Award
Dr. Xi Zhang, assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering
at Texas A&M University, recently received the prestigious Faculty Early
Career Development (CAREER) Award, which is sponsored by the National
Science Foundation (NSF).
The NSF established the CAREER program to support junior faculty
within the context of their overall career development, combining
in a single program the support of research and education of the highest
quality and in the broadest sense. Through this program, the NSF emphasizes
the importance on the early development of academic careers dedicated
to stimulating the discovery process in which the excitement of research
is enhanced by inspired teaching and enthusiastic learning.
“The synergy of frontier-level discovery skills with the learning
process and continuous educational innovation lies at the heart of
these awards,” said NSF Acting Deputy Director Joseph Bordona.
Zhang, who is a member of the computer engineering group, received
his CAREER award for the project: "A Flexible Flow-and Error-Control
Protocol-Integration Architecture for Multicast Services Over Mobile
Networks."
He began working for the department in February 2002. He received
his bachelor’s degree from Xidian University in Xi’an, China in 1982,
his masters’ degrees from Xidian University in 1984 and Lehigh University
in 1995 and his Ph.D. from The University of Michigan in 2001.
Zhang’s interests include networking and communication systems involving
design, modeling, performance analysis and implementation of flow/congestion
and error control algorithms and protocols, with emphases on flow/error
control and supporting Quality-of-Service (QoS) guarantees for video/audio
and data multicast over the internet with wired/wireless links/networks.
Recent honors include an IEEE Grant Award of GLOBECOM '99, an IEEE
Grant Award of INFOCOM '97, an AT&T Bell Labs Graduate Fellowship,
a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Fellowship, an Overseas
Telecommunications Commission (OTC) Research Fellowship, an Excellent
Instructor Award from the Beijing Information Technology Institute
and First Prize of Scientific Invention from the Ministry of Electronics
Industry of China.
