- Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Associate Department Head, Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Joint Faculty in: Computer Engineering
- Phone: 979-862-8683
- FAX: 979-862-4630
- Email: zixiang-xiong@tamu.edu
- Office: WEB 334H
- Website: Personal Website

Educational Background
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign – 1996
Research Interests
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Distributed source coding for sensor networks, data hiding, and network information theory Joint source-channel coding, networked multimedia and data compression Genomic signal processing Network traffic smoothing and modeling.
- Network information theory, code designs and applications
- Distributed source coding of linear functions
- Minimum-energy network communications
- Multiterminal source coding theory and multiterminal video coding
- Cooperative diversity
- Dirty-paper coding
- Networked multimedia
- Audio/image/video coding
- Source-channel coding
- Biomedical engineering
- Medical image processing
- Network information theory, code designs and applications
Awards & Honors
- IEEE Fellow
- NSF CAREER Award
- ARO YIP Award
- ONR YIP Award
Selected Publications
- Z. Xiong, "Distributed video coding," Multimedia Image and Video Processing, L. Guan, Y. He, and S.-Y. Kung (Eds.), CRC, 2012.
- Z. Xiong, A. Liveris, and Y. Yang, "Distributed source coding," Handbook on Array Processing and Sensor Networks, S. Haykin and K. J. R. Liu (Eds.), Wiley, 2009.
- Z. Xiong and K. Ramchandran, "Wavelet image compression," The Essential Guide to Image Processing, A. Bovik, ed., Elsevier, 2009.
- V. Stankovic, A. Host-Madsen, and Z. Xiong, "Cooperative diversity: Capacity bounds and code designs," Adaptive Signal Processing for Wireless Communications, M. Ibnkahla (Ed.), CRC Press, 2008.
- R. Hamzaoui, V Stankovic, Z. Xiong, K. Ramchandran, R. Puri, A. Majumdar, and J. Chou "Channel protection and joint source channel coding techniques," Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, M. van der Schaar and P. Chou (Eds.), Academic Press, 2007.
- R. Hamzaoui, V Stankovic, and Z. Xiong, "Forward error control for packet loss and corruption," Multimedia over IP and Wireless Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, M. van der Schaar and P. Chou (Eds.), Academic Press, 2007.
- Z. Xiong and K. Ramchandran, "Wavelet image compression," Handbook of Image and Video Processing, A. Bovik, ed., 2nd edition, Academic Press, 2005.
- Z. Xiong and K. Ramchandran, "Wavelet image compression," Handbook of Image and Video Processing, A. Bovik, ed., Academic Press, 2000.
- A. Nosratinia, G. Davis, Z. Xiong, and R. Rajagopalan, "Subband image compression,'' Wavelet, subband and block transforms in communications and multimedia, A. Akansu and M. Medley, eds, Kluwer, 1999.
- W. A. Pearlman, B.-J. Kim, and Z. Xiong, "Embedded video subband coding with 3D SPIHT,'' Wavelet Image and Video Compression, P. Topiwala, ed., Kluwer, 1998.