Neal Xiong (S’05–M’08–SM’12) is a Computer Science Program Chair, an Associate Professor at Department of Computer Science and Mathematics, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, TX 79830, USA. He received his both PhD degrees in Wuhan University (2007, about sensor system engineering), and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (2008, about dependable communication networks), respectively. Before he attended Sul Ross State University, he worked about 15 years in USA. His research interests include Cloud Computing, Security and Dependability, AI, Data Analysis, Parallel and Distributed Computing, Software Engineering, and Networks. 

  Dr. Xiong published over 250 IEEE journal papers and over 100 international conference papers. Some of his works were published in IEEE JSAC, IEEE or ACM transactions, ACM Sigcomm workshop, IEEE INFOCOM, ICDCS, and IPDPS. He also submitted several papers in NATURE and SCIENCE journals. He has been a General Chair, Program Chair, Publicity Chair, Program Committee member and Organizing Committee member of over 100 international conferences, and as a reviewer of about 100 international journals, including IEEE JSAC, IEEE SMC (Park: A/B/C), IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Trans. on Parallel and Distributed Systems. He is serving as an Editor-in-Chief, Associate editor or Editor member for over 10 international journals (including Associate Editor for IEEE Tran. on Systems, Man & Cybernetics: Systems, Associate Editor for IEEE Tran. on Network Science and Engineering, Associate Editor for Information Science, Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Internet Technology (JIT), and Editor-in-Chief for Journal of Parallel & Cloud Computing (PCC)), and a guest editor for over 10 international journals, including Sensor Journal, WINET and MONET. He has received the Best Paper Award in the 10th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08) and the Best student Paper Award in the 28th North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Annual Conference (NAFIPS2009). 

  Dr. Xiong is the Chair of “Trusted Cloud Computing” Task Force, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS), HYPERLINK "http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~cscnxx/index-TF.html" http://www.cs.gsu.edu/ ~cscnxx/ index-TF.html, and the Industry System Applications Technical Committee,  HYPERLINK "http://ieee-cis.org/technical/isatc/" http://ieee-cis.org/technical/isatc/; He is a Senior member of IEEE Computer Society from 2012, E-mail: xiongnaixue@gmail.com. 

v Publons: 719, 250+ IEEE Journal, https://publons.com/researcher/1741923/naixue-xiong/

v DBLP: 711 (Journal 531, Conf. 148), https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pid/x/NaixueXiong.html

v Research Gate: 49.71; https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Naixue-Xiong

v Google: H-index: 79, i10-index: 289, Citations: 16,370; https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=PVsywkkAAAAJ&hl=en

v Scopus/Orcid: 868 papers, 16,664 citations, h-index 69, https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=35231569200