Delaware's Xia named fellow of IEEE
Xiang-Gen Xia
UDaily is produced by Communications and Marketing
The Academy Building
105 East Main Street
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716 • USA
Phone: (302) 831-2792
email: ocm@udel.edu
www.udel.edu/ocm

10:44 a.m., Nov. 20, 2008----Xiang-Gen Xia, Charles Black Evans Professor in the University of Delaware's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been named an IEEE Fellow, the highest grade of membership in the international Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Xia was cited for his contributions to signal processing for digital communications. The election will be effective in January 2009.

THIS STORY
Email E-mail
Delicious Print
Twitter

IEEE's membership comprises more than 365,000 engineers, scientists and allied professionals worldwide whose technical interests are rooted in electrical and computer sciences, engineering, and related disciplines.

“Less than one-tenth of one percent of IEEE's members are recommended for the grade of Fellow,” Gonzalo Arce, Charles Black Evans Professor and chairperson of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, says. “We're very pleased that with Xia's elevation to Fellow, eight of our faculty have achieved this status.”

Xia, who earned his Ph.D. at the University of Southern California, joined the UD faculty in 1996 and was designated a named professor in 2007.

Xia's research interests include wireless communication systems, space-time coding, SAR/ISAR (synthetic aperture radar/inverse synthetic aperture radar) imaging and filterbanks, wavelets, time-frequency analysis, and other signal and image processing.

He holds seven patents and has published more than 175 refereed journal articles. He also is the author of Modulated Coding for Intersymbol Interference Channels and has held editorial positions for journals published by IEEE and the European Association for Signal Processing. He serves on the Sensor and Multichannel Technical Committee in the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Xia has received a number of other awards, including a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award in 1997, the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award in 1998, the Outstanding Overseas Young Investigator Award of the National Natural Science Foundation of China in 2001, and the Outstanding Junior Faculty of Engineering Award from UD in 2001.

Article by Diane Kukich

close