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Zixiang Xiong is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University. He holds the Robert M. Kennedy '26 Endowed Professorship II and has earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996. His research interests include distributed source coding, sensor networks, data hiding, and network information theory. He has a strong focus on joint source-channel coding, networked multimedia data compression, genomic signal processing, and network traffic smoothing modeling. Additionally, he contributes to the field of biomedical engineering, particularly in medical image processing. Xiong is recognized for his expertise and has been honored with several awards, including the CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and Young Investigator Program Awards from both the University of Arizona and the Office of Naval Research. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, reflecting his significant contributions to the field.
Department: Department of Communication and Journalism. Ph.D. program only currently admitting. GRE is test-optional.