Biography

Dr. Xuemin Chen is a professor in the engineering department at TSU. He received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (control engineering) from the Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), China, in 1985, 1988 and 1991, respectively. He joined Texas Southern University (TSU) in 2006. Prior to joining TSU, he was a postdoc fellow and then a research assistant professor in the electrical and computer engineering department at the University of Houston from 1998 to 2006. He was a faculty member of the Department of Automation at NJUST from 1991 to 1998. He initiated the Virtual and Remote Laboratory (VR-Lab) at TSU and served as founding director of VR-Lab from 2008. He is a senior member of IEEE.

Laboratory Website: http://vr-lab.tsu.edu/.

Education and Training

• Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, Electrical Engineering, Ph.D., 1991
• Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, Electrical Engineering, M.S., 1988
• Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China, Electrical Engineering, B.S., 1985

Honors & Awards

• Distinguished Research/Scholarly Activity Award, College of Science, Engineering and Technology, Texas Southern University, 2016.
• Best conference paper award, 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (IEEE ICNSC 2014), Miami, FL., 2014
• Faculty Award for Mentoring Undergraduate Research/Creative Activities, Texas Southern University, 2012.
• Distinguished Undergraduate Advising Award, College of Science and Technology, Texas Southern University, 2011.
• Dean’s Leadership Award for Research Committee, College of Science and Technology, Texas Southern University, 2011.
• Top Research Innovations and Findings, Texas Department of Transportation, 2004.

Research Interests

Cyber-physical Systems, Internet of Things, Machine Learning, Structural Health Monitoring, Virtual and Remote Lab

Recent Publications

1. B. Liao, D. Li, Q. Tang, X. Chen, “Joint power control and multiple antennas optimization for reducing receiver blocking in dense VANETs,” Vehicular Communications. 2022 Jun 6:100494.
2. Z. Wang, H. Bao, T. Zhao, F. Du, X. Chen “New Lattice-based Short Proxy Signature Scheme with Fewer System Parameters in the Standard Model,” IEEE Access. 2022 May 27.
3. C. Guo, D. Li, X. Chen, G. Zhang “An adaptive V2R communication strategy based on data delivery delay estimation in VANETs,” Vehicular Communications 34(2022): 100444.
4. S. Zhou, D. Li, Q. Tang, Y. Fu, C. Guo, X. Chen “Multiple intersection selection routing protocol based on road section connectivity probability for urban VANETs.” Computer Communications 177 (2021): 255-264.
5. M. Zhang, X. Chen and W. Li, ” Hidden Markov Models for Pipeline Damage Detection Using Piezoelectric Transducers,” Journal of Civil Structural Health Monitoring, vol. 11, pp. 745-755, DOI :10.1007/s13349-021-00481-0, 2021.
6. T. Xia and X. Chen, “A Weighted Feature Enhanced Hidden Markov Model for Spam SMS Filtering.” Neurocomputing, vol. 444, 48-58, doi: 10.1016/j.neucom.2021.02.075, 2021.
7. M. Zhang, X. Chen and W. Li, “A Hybrid Hidden Markov Model for Pipeline Leakage Detection” Appl. Sci. vol. 11, no. 7: 3138. doi: 10.3390/app11073138, 2021.

Recent Fundings

Co-Principal Investigator, “Targeted Infusion Project: Advancing Basic Science Research and Undergraduate Education in Computer Vision,” National Science Foundation, Award No, HRD-2205578, 11/15/2022 – 07/31/2025.

Principal Investigator, “NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Riding the Stress Wave: Integrated Monitoring, Communications, and Networking for Subsea Infrastructure,” National Science Foundation, Award No, CNS-1801811, 09/01/2018 – 08/31/2022.

Co-Principal Investigator, “RENEW: A Reconfigurable Eco-system for Next-generation End-to-end Wireless Testbed,” National Science Foundation via William Marsh Rice University, 04/01/2018 – 03/31/2023.