COMPUTER ENGINEERING & SYSTEMS GROUP - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Personal Assistant to Dr. P.R. Kumar
Warzon was an administrative coordinator in the department for the Computer Engineering & Systems Group and has been with Texas A&M since September of 1985 in the College of Engineering. In 1998, Warzon received the Outstanding Support Staff Achievement Award from the Dwight Look College of Engineering in 1998, the Outstanding Support Staff Award in 2002 from the department; the President's Meritorious Award in 2005; the Texas A&M Engineering Staff Excellence Award in 2005; and the Texas A&M Engineering Staff Excellence Award in 2016.
Job Titles:
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Texas a & M University
- Professor
Jiang Hu received the B.S. degree in optical engineering from Zhejiang University (China) in 1990, the M.S. degree in physics in 1997 and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2001. He worked with IBM Microelectronics from January 2001 to June 2002.
In 2002, he joined the electrical engineering faculty at Texas A&M University. His research interest is in VLSI design automation, architecture optimization, hardware security, machine learning applications and smart systems. Honors include receiving a best paper award at the ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conference in 2001, an IBM Invention Achievement Award in 2003, a best paper award at the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design in 2011, a best paper award at the IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety in 2018, the best paper award in MICRO 2021 and the best paper award in ASPDAC 2023. He has served as technical program committee members for DAC, ICCAD, ISPD, ISQED, ICCD, DATE, ISCAS, ASP-DAC and ISLPED. He is the general chair for the 2012 ACM International Symposium on Physical Design. He served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on CAD 2006-2011 and an associated editor for the ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems. He received the Humboldt Research Fellowship in 2012. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2016. He received Texas A&M AgriLife Research Director's Award in 2019 and Agricultural Blue Legacy Award in 2021. He received Hans Fischer senior fellowship in 2023. Starting from 2024, he serves as the Editor-in-Chief of ACM TODAES. He was the TPC co-chair of the ACM/IEEE International Workshop on ML CAD and now serves as the general co-chair of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on ML CAD.
Job Titles:
- Program Specialist III for CESG Faculty
Job Titles:
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering / Texas a & M University
Xi Zhang (IEEE, S'89-SM'98) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Xidian University, Xi'an, China, the M.S. degree from Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, all in electrical engineering and computer science, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and computer science (Electrical Engineering-Systems) from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He is currently an Associate Professor and the Founding Director of the Networking and Information Systems Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station. He was an Assistant Professor and the Founding Director of the Division of Computer Systems Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Beijing Information Technology Engineering Institute, China, from 1984 to 1989.
He was a Research Fellow with the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, James Cook University, Australia, under a Fellowship from the Chinese National Commission of Education. He was with with the Networks and Distributed Systems Research Department, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hills, NJ, and with AT&T Laboratories Research, Florham Park, NJ, in 1997.
He has published more than 190 research papers in the areas of wireless networks and communications systems, mobile computing, network protocol design and modeling, statistical communications, random signal processing, information theory, and control theory and systems. Prof. Zhang received the U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2004 for his research in the areas of mobile wireless and multicast networking and systems. He is an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in IEEE Communications Society. He received the Best Paper Awards in the IEEE GLOBECOM 2007, IEEE GLOBECOM 2009, and IEEE WCNC 2010, respectively. He also received the TEES Select Young Faculty Award for Excellence in Research Performance from the Dwight Look College of Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, in 2006.