We are excited to announce that Assistant Professor Zehui Xiong is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE-CS TCSVC 2023 Rising Star Award (only one worldwide for each year).

IEEE TCSVC Rising Star Award (RSA) recognizes promising individuals who are in the early stages of their independent research careers, and have made outstanding, impactful, and potentially long-lasting contributions to the science and engineering of Services Computing (e.g., tangible contributions to open-source data and/or software that accelerate as-a-service innovations). A qualified nomination package must provide factual data showing nominee has earned a doctorate no more than 10 years before, or is below the age of 40 as of, January 1st of the year of the award.

Zehui Xiong is currently an Assistant Professor at Singapore University of Technology and Design, and also an Honorary Adjunct Senior Research Scientist with Alibaba-NTU Singapore Joint Research Institute, Singapore. He received the PhD degree in Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. He was the visiting scholar at Princeton University and University of Waterloo. His research interests include wireless communications, Internet of Things, blockchain, edge intelligence, and Metaverse. He has published more than 200 research papers in leading journals and flagship conferences and many of them are ESI Highly Cited Papers. He has won over 10 Best Paper Awards in international conferences and is listed in the World’s Top 2% Scientists identified by Stanford University. He is now serving as the editor or guest editor for many leading journals including IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, and IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering. He is the recipient of IEEE Early Career Researcher Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing, IEEE Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies Early Career Award, IEEE Internet Technical Committee Early Achievement Award, IEEE TCI Rising Star Award, IEEE TCCLD Rising Star Award, IEEE Best Land Transportation Paper Award, IEEE CSIM Technical Committee Best Journal Paper Award, IEEE SPCC Technical Committee Best Paper Award, IEEE VTS Singapore Best Paper Award, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, and NTU SCSE Best PhD Thesis Runner-Up Award. He is now serving as the Associate Director of Future Communications R&D Programme. In 2023, he was featured on the list of Forbes Asia 30 under 30.

Reference:
http://tab.computer.org/tcsvc/activities/#awards