Brief Biography of Zhengyuan Xu

Zhengyuan Xu (S'97-M'99-SM'02) received the B.E. and M.E. degrees in electronic engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, in 1999. From 1991 to 1996, he was a system engineer and department manager at the Tsinghua Unisplendour Group Corporation, Tsinghua University. Since 1999, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Riverside, where he is currently a Professor with tenure. He is Director of the Multi-campus Center for Ubiquitous Communication by Light (UC-Light) funded by the University of California Office of the President. He has held visiting positions at Stanford University and the University of Science and Technology of China. His research interests lie in wireless communications, networking, and signal processing. They include multiuser spread spectrum, impulse radio, ultra-wideband, atmospheric and underwater ultraviolet communication, visible light communication, geolocation, navigation, intelligent transportation, ultraviolet imaging and sensing, hybrid radio frequency and optical communication, sensor and ad hoc networks.

Dr. Xu has served as an associate editor and guest editor for various IEEE journals in communications, vehicle technology, or signal processing. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and an elected member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Technical Committee on Signal Processing for Communications. He has served as a session chair technical program chair, and technical program committee member for many international conferences. He received the Outstanding Student Award and the Motorola Scholarship from Tsinghua University, and the Peskin Award from Stevens Institute of Technology. He also received the Academic Senate Research Award and the Regents' Faculty Award from the University of California, Riverside.