Honor

Awards and Honors

  • IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer for the class of 2024-2025
  • According to Elsevier/Stanford University List, Xing is named among the World Top 2% Scientists.
  • According to the AD Scientific Index 2024 (accessed in October 2023), Xing was named among the World’s Top 3% Scientists in the rankings that evaluate citation metrics “Total i10” and “Last 6 years i10”.
  • According to Research.com (accessed in April 2023), Xing was ranked Top #1 and #14 best scientists in the field of Computer Science among UMass Dartmouth scholars and UMass System scholars, respectively.
  • Keynote Speaker, IEEE International Conference on Computing, Power, and Communication Technologies, February 2024
  • ESI Highly Cited Paper (Highly Cited Papers are papers that perform in the top 1% based on the number of citations received when compared to other papers published in the same field in the same year)
    H. Dui, Z. Xu, L. Chen, L. Xing, and B. Liu, “Data-Driven Maintenance Priority and Resilience Evaluation of Performance Loss in a Main Coolant System,” Mathematics, Special Issue on Data-Driven Methods and Artificial Intelligence in Reliability and Maintenance, vol. 10, no. 4, 563, pp. 1-19, February 2022
  • ESI Highly Cited Paper, July 2022  
    G. Levitin, L. Xing, and Y. Xiang, “Co-residence Data Theft Attacks on N-version Programming-based Cloud Services with Task Cancellation,” IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 324-333, January 2022, doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2020.3002930
  • The paper “Reliability Modeling of Wireless Sensor Networks: A Review” by L. Xing, Recent Patents on Engineering, vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 3–11, 2021” is the Most Cited Article for the journal, 2022
  • The paper “Hybrid wireless sensor networks: a reliability, cost and energy-aware approach” coauthored by A. Ehsani Zonouz (PhD 2015), L. Xing (co-advisor), V. M. Vokkarane (co-advisor), and Y. Sun, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, April 2016, p. 42 – 48” is the Top 2 Most Cited Content for the journal, 2022.
  • Best Paper Award at the 2020 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering.
    Y. Hu, C. Wang (Ph.D. 2014), and L. Xing, “Reliability Analysis of k-out-of-n Phased-Mission Systems with Phase-AND Requirement,” Proc. of International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Xi’an, China, October 08-11, 2020
  • Fellow, The International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), 2019
  • Keynote Speaker at the International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, August 2019
    Talk Title: “Competing Failure Analysis in the Internet of Things System with Functional Dependence”
  • 2018 IEEE Region 1 Outstanding Teaching in an IEEE Area of Interest (University or College) Award ,“for outstanding and sustained contributions as an educator and mentor in the fields of computer engineering and reliability engineering”.
  • 2018 Premium Award for Best Paper in IET Wireless Sensor Systems .
    A. E. Zonouz (Ph.D. 2015), L. Xing (co-adviser), V. M. Vokkarane (co-adviser), and Y. Sun, “Hybrid Wireless Sensor Networks: A Reliability, Cost and Energy-Aware Approach,” IET Wireless Sensor Systems, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 42-48, 2016
  • Best Paper Award at the 2017 International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering (ICRSE).
    Y. Wang (Ph.D. 2016) and L. Xing (adviser), “Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks subject to Phase-Dependent Probabilistic Competing Failures,” Proc. of International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering, Beijing, China, July 10-12, 2017
  • Invited Speaker at the 17th China Fault Tolerant Computing Conference, Nanjing, China, July 18-20, 2017
    Talk Title: “New Developments in Dynamic Standby Fault-Tolerant Systems”
  • Plenary Speaker at the International Conference on Networks and Information (ICNI 2016), New York, USA, January 7-9, 2016
    Talk Title: “Reliability Computing for Modern Networks”
  • Best Paper Award at the 2015 International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (News).
    Q. Liu (Ph.D. student) and L. Xing (adviser), “Hierarchical Reliability Analysis of Multi-state Cloud-RAID Storage System,” Proc. of International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Beijing, China, July 21-24, 2015
  • Thomas L. Fagan, Jr. Best Student Paper Award (First Place) at the 2015 Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) (News).
    Y. Wang (Ph.D. student), L. Xing (co-adviser), H. Wang (co-adviser), and G. Levitin, “Probabilistic Competing Failure Analysis in Body Sensor Networks,” Proc. of 2015 Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, Palm Harbor, FL, January 2015
  • Featured Paper in the IEEE Transactions on Computers in April 2015.
    G. Levitin, L. Xing, B. W. Johnson, and Y. Dai, “Mission Reliability, Cost and Time for Cold Standby Computing Systems with Periodic Backup,” IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol.64, no. 4, pp. 1043-1057, April 2015
  • 2015 Changjang Scholar award, Ministry of Education
  • Leo M. Sullivan Teacher of the Year Award (only one per year), UMass Dartmouth, 2014 (News; Image)
  • Second Place in the Tom Fagan Reliability & Maintainability Symposium Student Paper Competition in 2012
    O. Tannous (Ph.D. Student) and L. Xing (adviser), “Efficient Analysis of Warm Standby Systems using Central Limit Theorem,” Proc. of The 58th Annual Reliability & Maintainability Symposium, Reno, NV, USA, January 2012
  • Outstanding Women Award (only one per year), Women’s Resource Center, UMass Dartmouth, 2011 (Image)
  • Scholar of the Year Award (only one per year), UMass Dartmouth, 2010 (Image)
  • Best Paper Award @ the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, July 2009
    R. Ma (Ph.D. Student), L. Xing (adviser), T. Jin, and T. Song, “A Data Transmission Mechanism for Survivable Sensor Networks,” Proc. of The IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS), Zhang Jia Jie, China, July 9-11, 2009
  • #3 top accessed article in the IEEE Transactions on Reliability in May 2009 (PDF)
    L. Xing, A. Shrestha*, L. Meshkat, and W. Wang, “Incorporating Common-Cause Failures into the Modular Hierarchical Systems Analysis,” 58(1): 10-19, March 2009
  • IEEE Region 1 Technological Innovation (Academic) Award, 2007 (PDF).
    IEEE Region 1 spans eight states in the northeast US and has about 38,000 members
  • #1 top accessed article in the IEEE Transactions on Reliability in November 2007 (PDF)
    L. Xing, “Reliability Evaluation of Phased-Mission Systems with Imperfect Fault Coverage and Common-Cause Failures,” 56(1): 58-68, March 2007.
  • #2 top accessed article in the International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering in 2006 (PDF)
    L. Xing, “Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Complex Hierarchical Systems,” 12(6): 477-492, December 2005.
  • Second place in the IEEE Region 1 Graduate Student Paper Contest in 2006 (PDF)
    A. Shrestha (Ph.D. Student), L. Xing (adviser), and H. Liu, “Reliability Modeling and Analysis of Wireless Sensor Networks” .
  • Fellowship and scholarships, University of Virginia (1998 ~ 2002)
  • First-Class Elite Fellowship, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China (1997)
  • Henan Province Outstanding Graduate, China (1996)
  • First-Class Fellowship and scholarships for academic excellence; Top #1 GPA, Zhengzhou University (1992 ~ 1996)