Dr. Yang Xiao
About
Dr. Xiao is a Professor at the Dept. of Computer Science at the University of Alabama. He directed 20+ doctoral dissertations; supervised 20+ M.S. theses/projects; published 300+ SCI-indexed journal papers and over 300+ conference papers with 30K+ citations and h-index=87 by Google Scholar; is ranked #188 and #481 in the USA (#362 and #808 in the world) by Research.com among Best Scientists for 2024 in EEE and CS, respectively; named a 2024 Highly Ranked Scholar in Lifetime by ScholarGPS; and identified as one of Top 2% Scientists in the world by the scientists of Stanford University. He was a Voting Member of the IEEE 802.11 Working Group from 2001 to 2004, involving the IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standardization work. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IET, AAIA, AIIA, and ACIS. He served as a Guest Editor over 40 times for journals, including the IEEE JSAC in 2022-2023, IEEE TNSE in 2021, IEEE TGCN in 2021, IEEE Network in 2007, IEEE Wireless Communications in 2006 and 2021, IEEE Communications Standards Magazine in 2021, and MONET in 2008. He has been serving as an Editorial Board Member / Associate Editor for 20+ journals, including IEEE TNSE since 2022, IEEE TYB since 2020, IEEE TMSC: SYSTEMS from 2014 to 2015, IEEE TVT from 2007 to 2009, and IEEE COMST from 2007 to 2014. He serves/served as a TPC for 300+ conferences. He received the IEEE TNSE Excellent Editor Award in 2022 and 2023.
Research Performance Summary
First Recorded Paper
An optimal distributed call admission control for adaptive multimedia in wireless/mobile networks
Year: 2000
Citations: 39
Venue: Proceedings 8th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation
Latest Recorded Paper
Building a Bridge Between Control and Communication via Topologies
Year: 2026
Citations: 0
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
Last 10 Years Publication Activity
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