Activity

Xing’s Professional Activities

Society Activities

  • Chair, SIG – IoT in Tactile Internet, IoT-AHSN TC (Internet of Things, Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Technical Committee), IEEE Communications Society, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • Member of Publications Advisory Committee, IEEE Reliability Society (Explore IEEE Reliability Society Publications)
  • Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc (IEEE) (since 2007)
  • Member of IEEE Communications Society
  • Member of IEEE Reliability Society
  • Advisor for the IEEE Student Branch at the UMass Dartmouth (September 2005~ August 2012)
  • Advisor for the Zeta Xi chapter, IEEE- Eta Kappa Nu honor society (August 2007 ~ August 2023)
  • American Society for Quality (ASQ) Reliability Division Webinar Speaker on November 8, 2011; November 17, 2012; January 10, 2015
  • IEEE Reliability Society,  Sweden and Norway Joint Section Chapter Webinar Speaker on October 25, 2024
  • IEEE CEU accredited short course instructor on Fault-Tolerant Computing & Reliability Engineering, April 2006
  • Fellow of The International Society of Engineering Asset Management (since 2019)

Proposal Activities

  • Panelist, National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
  • Proposal reviewer for
    • U.S. Department of Energy
    • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
    • Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
    • Qatar National Research Fund
    • UMassD’s Marine and Undersea Technology (MUST) Research Program 
    • UMassD’s Office of Undergraduate Research (OUR) Program

Journal Activities

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Internet of Things Journal (since 2020)
  • Editorial board member for Reliability Engineering and System Safety (since 2015)
  • Lead Associate Editor (since April 2024), Associate Editor (since 2022), IEEE Access (Reliability Society Section)
  • Area Editor, Journal of Reliability Science and Engineering (since 2024)
  • Advisory Editor, International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences (since 2023)
  • Guest editor for Reliability Engineering and System Safety on Special Issue “Advances in Multistate System Reliability: Modeling, Assessment, and Optimization” (CFP), ongoing, 2025
  • Managing guest editor for Reliability Engineering and System Safety on Special Issue “Reliability and Performance of Cyber-Physical Systems”, Vol. 225, September 2022
  • Guest editor for Reliability Engineering and System Safety on Special Issue “Reliability and Performance of Multi-State Systems”, Vol. 166, pp. 1-2, October 2017
  • Editorial board member for Electronics (Computer Science & Engineering Section), January 2021 ~.
  • Editorial board member for International Journal of Mathematical, Engineering and Management Sciences, January 2019 ~.
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Systems Science (IJSS), 2011 ~ 2017
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Systems Science: Operations & Logistics, 2014 ~ 2017
  • Editor of Short Communications, International Journal of Performability Engineering (IJPE), 2006 ~ 2017
  • Assistant Editor in Chief, International Journal of Performability Engineering, 2011 ~ 2017
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Reliability, October 2015 ~ September 2016.
  • Guest co-editor, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, special issue on “Technologies and Theories in P2P Converged Ubiquitous Networks”, Vol. 7, No. 4, December 2014.
  • Guest co-editor, The Journal of Supercomputing, special section on “Advances in High Performance, Algorithm, and Framework for Future Computing”, Vol. 65, No. 2, August 2013.
  • Guest co-editor, IJPE Special Issue on “Dependability of Wireless Systems and Networks”, Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2012
  • Guest co-editor, Wireless Personal Communications, special issue on “Advanced Technologies and Practices in Recent Wireless Sensor Networks”, Vol. 60, No. 3, October 2011.
  • Associate guest editor for Journal of Computer Science (2006)
  • Reviewer for numerous journals, including for example (~500 journal manuscripts reviewed since 2002)
    • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
    • IEEE Systems Journal
    • IEEE Transactions on Reliability
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (Part A)
    • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
    • ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems
    • IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Transactions and Magazine
    • Reliability Engineering and System Safety
    • International Journal of Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering
    • International Journal of Performability Engineering
    • IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers ) Transactions
    • Elsevier’s Computer Communications Journal
    • International Journal of Computers and Applications
    • Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing
    • International Journal of Smart Home
    • IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Generation, Transmission & Distribution
    • Computing and Informatics
    • The Computer Journal
    • Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
    • Journal of Risk and Reliability
    • International Journal of Systems Science
    • International Journal of Reliability and Safety
    • Software Testing, Verification & Reliability (STVR)
    • Microelectronics Reliability
    • Mathematical and Computer Modeling
    • European Journal of Operational Research
    • Computer Communications
    • International Journal of Sensor Networks
    • IET Software
    • etc.

Conference Activities

  • Publications chair, The 9th Asia-Pacific International Symposium on Advanced Reliability and Maintenance Modelling, August 2020
  • Program co-chair, The 9th International Conference on Information and Computer Technologies, Honolulu-Hawaii, March 2026
  • Keynote Speaker for International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, ZhangJiaJie, China, August 2019.
  • Invited speaker, The 17th China Fault Tolerant Computing Conference, Nanjing, China, July 18-20, 2017
  • Plenary Speaker and Program Committee Chair, International Conference on Networks and Information, New York, USA , January 2016
  • Publication Committee Co-chair, IEEE Prognostics & System Health Management Conference, October 2016, Chengdu, China
  • Program committee chair or co-chair for International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, 2015-2017, 2019, 2020, 2024.
  • Program Co-chair for The 6th International Conference on Reliability Engineering, Venice, Italy, 2022
  • Program Co-chair for International Conference on System Reliability and Safety, Rome, Italy, 2019
  • Program vice chair for the 8th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing in December 2009.
  • Program vice chair for the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2008)
  • Program co-chair for the International Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing Security in 2009.
  • Program vice chair, The 2007 International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS 2007)
  • Program co-chair, The 2nd IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (2006)
  • Steering co-chair, International Conference on Emerging Networks Technologies (http://www.icent.org/), 2023 (Okinawa, Japan); 2024 (Hanoi, Vietnam)
  • Member of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2025 Best Paper Award selection committee.
  • Associate Editor, Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS), 2015 ~ 2018
  • Session chair
    • The IEEE Symposium on Future Telecommunication Technologies (2021, Session 3: Physical Layer Communications 2)
    • The Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety Conference (R.A.M.S. Europe, 2025; 2 sessions)
    • International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (2019, invited session).
    • International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (2016, keynote speech session).
    • International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering (2015)
    • The 18th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design (2012, invited session)
    • The 7th International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR 2011, Invited session & Contributed Session)
    • The 8th International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (2009, invited session)
    • The IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (2007)
    • The 2007 International Symposium on Frontiers in Networking with Applications (2007)
    • The 52nd International Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2006)
    • The 12th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design (2006, invited session)
    • The 2nd IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (2006)
    • The 51st International Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (2005)
    • The 4th International Conference on Quality and Reliability (2005)
  • Program committee member for numerous international conferences, including, for example,
    • Globecom IoTSN (IEEE Global Communications Conference: IoT and Sensor Networks), 2021-2025
    • IEEE Globecom – Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium (2010-2019)
    • IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) – Ad-Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium (2009-2016)
    • The IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) (2008-2021)
    • The International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (2008-2018)
    • The 6th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS 2022)
    • The 30th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2021)
    • Annual European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL) (2019)
    • International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability (MMR) (2011, 2019)
    • IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (2009- 2014)
    • The IEEE 21st and 22nd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (2007, 2008)
    • The Seventh International Conference on Reliability, Maintainability and Safety (2007)
    • The International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (2007, 2008)
    • The International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing (2006, 2007, 2008)
    • The International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems (2006, 2007)
    • The International Workshop on Protocols and Algorithms for Reliable and Data Intensive Sensor Networks (2007)
    • The International Conference on Intelligent Pervasive Computing (2007)
    • The International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies (2007, 2008)
    • The International Conference on Global Defense and Business Continuity (2007)
    • The International Symposium on Information Security (2007, 2008)
    • The International Symposium on Security in Ubiquitous Computing (2007)
    • The IEEE Symposium on Dependable Autonomic and Secure Computing (2007)
    • The International Workshop on eSafety and Convergence of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks (2006, 2007)
    • The International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering (2007, 2008)
    • The IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Wireless Networks: Resource Management and QoS (2007)
    • The International Symposium on Smart Home (2007, 2008)
    • The IEEE International Symposium on Ubisafe Computing (2007)
    • The International Workshop on Service, Security and its Data management technologies in Ubi-Com (2007)
    • The International Workshop on Interactive Multimedia & Intelligent Services in Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (2007)
    • The International Workshop on Security Modeling in Per-com (2007)
    • The IEEE International Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Computing Systems (2006)
    • The IEEE Workshop on Reliability and Autonomic Management in Parallel and Distributed Systems (2005)
    • The IFIP Workshop on Trusted and Autonomic Ubiquitous and Embedded Systems (2005)
    • etc.
  • Former member of Galileo group, University of Virginia