News & Events
THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION AND ENGINEERING WELCOMES YE XIA AS A NEW ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
October 10, 2003
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Ye Xia (prounounced Yeh Siah) has crossed the nation to start his teaching career as an Assistant Professor with CISE here at the University of Florida in Gainesville. He obtained his doctorate degree in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkley and holds two patents for method and apparatus for controlling data transfer rates. "There is a good program here, a good neighborhood to live in, and a good university environment," Xia said.
Xia's love is doing research and he feels that CISE is a research-oriented place. "They have a high respect for growth and continued learning, which is what I would like to do to an old age. They offer me very satisfactory support and plenty of intellectual freedom as well." As a new assistant professors starting fall semester 2003, Xia says that it is a little hard for him to judge the students' abilities at this point, but he reports being impressed with the high marks some of his students received on their first graded homework.
Xia's area of expertise is communication networks and his research investigates how to control the communication network so the networks can deliver what the user wants. He points out that the Internet can't yet deliver high enough quality for voice communications or video streaming. His aim is to figure out how the network can be engineered for users to be able to send and receive desirable quality. "It is basically a network control or dimensioning type problem that I am striving to solve," Xia reports.
Prior to joining UF, Xia worked as a researcher in the High-speed Networking Department of Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He was involved with the development of an ATM switch, conducted performance evaluation of a shared-memory switch and studied traffic control for ATM networks. Xia's control algorithms were used in the award-winning ATM switching chip set.
CISE is proud to have Xia onboard as a faculty member.
Writer: Terri Bailey, 352-373-1041, TBailey567@aol.com
Source: Ye Xia, 352-392-1492, yx1@cise.ufl.edu
Ye Xia's webpage: www.cise.ufl.edu/~yx1/
