Professor Chengshan Xiao
Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

Biography

Chengshan Xiao received the B.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China, in 1987, the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1989, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, in 1997.
        From 1989 to 1993, he was with the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, where he was a member of Research Staff and then a Lecturer. From 1997 to 1999, he was a Senior Member of Scientific Staff with Nortel, Ottawa, ON, Canada. From 1999 to 2000, he was a Faculty Member with the University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. From 2000 to 2007, he was with the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he was an Assistant Professor and then an Associate Professor. He is currently a Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology, Rolla (formerly University of Missouri, Rolla). His research interests include wireless communications, signal processing, and underwater acoustic communications. He is the holder of three U.S. patents. His algorithms have been implemented into Nortel's base station radios after successful technical field trials and network integration.
        Dr. Xiao is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, a Fellow of the IEEE, a Member of the Fellow Evaluation Committee of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc), a Member at Large of IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors, a Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE ComSoc, and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society. Previously, he served as the founding Area Editor for Transmission Technology of the IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications; an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I, and the international journal of Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing. He was the Technical Program Chair of the 2010 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), the Lead Co-chair of the 2008 IEEE ICC Wireless Communications Symposium, and a Phy/MAC Program Co-chair of the 2007 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference. He served as the founding Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Wireless Communications, and the Vice-Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Personal Communications.