Faculty Profiles

Colleges and Departments

Dr. Hongchi Shi

  • Chair - Professor at Computer Science, College of Science & Engineering

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Member, TXST STEM Workforce Advisory Council. 2021 - Present.
  • Member, TXST Formosa Plastics Professorship Committee. 2017 - Present.
  • Member, TXST Family Campaign Faculty Committee. 2012 - Present.
  • Member, TXST Council of Chairs. 2007 - Present.
  • TXST CS Department Chair. 2007 - Present.
  • Member, TXST College of Science & Engineering Council. 2007 - Present.
  • Member, TXST College of Science & Engineering P&T Review Group. 2007 - Present.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Peer Reviewer for numerous book publishers, journals, and conferences. 1990 - Present.

2025

  • Reviewer / Referee, P&T, King Saud University, KSA. 2025.
  • Chair, Publicity, 2025 7th International Conference on Computer Communication and the Internet (ICCCI). 2024 - 2025.
  • Member, TXST NcNair Advisory Committee. 2023 - 2025.

2023

  • Member, TXST VP for Round Rock Search Committee. 2023.
  • Member, TXST Assistant VP and Director for International Affairs Search Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Member, TXST Grades, Intervention, and Retention Committee. 2022 - 2023.
  • Member, TXST Campus Information Resource Advisory Council (CIRCA). 2014 - 2023.

2022

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 4th International Conference on Computer Communication and the Internet. 2022.
  • Member, TXST College of Liberal Arts P&T Review Group. 2021 - 2022.
  • Member, Advisory Board, Dr. Shetay Ashford-Hanserd's NSF CAREER Project. 2021 - 2022.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, International Journal of Advanced Intelligence. 2009 - 2022.

2020

  • Chair, TXST Director of Ingram School of Engineering Search Committee. 2018 - 2020.

2019

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2019 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2019) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2019.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2019) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2019.

2018

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2018.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2018 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2018) Ad-oc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2018.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2018 10th International Conference on Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP) Internet of Things Symposium. 2018.

2017

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2017) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2017.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2017 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2017) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2017.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, International Journal of Handheld Computing Research. 2010 - 2017.

2016

  • Reviewer / Referee, P&T, Department of Computing Sciences, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. 2016.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2016 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2016) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2016.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2016.
  • Member, TXST Dean of Science and Engineering Search Committee. 2015 - 2016.

2015

  • Panelist, TXST Thriving During First Year, Texas State New Faculty Orientation. 2015.
  • Member, Technical Progam Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2015.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2015 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2015) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2015.
  • Chair, Session: Security Infrastructure and Tools (IV), IEEE Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference. 2015.
  • Chair, Session S5.4-D2: Mini Conference on Cognitive Radio, 5G, and Vehicular Communications, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2015). 2015.

2014

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 13th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2014). 2014.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2014 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2014) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2014.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Tenth International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2014). 2014.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2014) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2014.
  • Co-Chair, TXST Comal Building Re-Dedication Committee. 2014.
  • Member, TXST Faculty Grievance Committee. 2013 - 2014.

2013

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2013 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2013). 2013.
  • Member, TXST Dean of Graduate College Search Committee. 2012 - 2013.

2012

  • Panelist, TXST Thriving During First Year, Texas State New Faculty Orientation. 2012.
  • Chair, 12th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2012). 2012.
  • Chair, Student Travel Grant Committee, 2012 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2012). 2012.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2012 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2012). 2012.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2012) Ad-hoc, Sensor Networking Symposium. 2012.
  • Chair, Keynote Session 2 (C. Julien) and Penary Session 3 (S.Q. Zheng), International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2012). 2012.
  • Chair, Session 1B: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks, International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN 2012). 2012.
  • Member, TXST College of Applied Arts P&T Review Group. 2011 - 2012.

2011

  • Panelist,TXST Thriving During First Year, Texas State New Faculty Orientation. 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2011) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC 2011) Network Track. 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2011) Ad-hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium. 2011.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2011). 2011.
  • Judge, Panel, Third International Research Conference of Texas State Graduate College. 2011.

2010

  • Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010) Ad Hoc, Sensor, and Mesh Networking Symposium. 2010.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2010). 2010.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010) Ad-hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2010.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2010 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2010). 2010.
  • Chair, AHSN21: Distributed Algorithms II, 2010 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2010). 2010.
  • Chair, AHS-08: Sensing Coverage, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2010). 2010.
  • Member, TXST College of Liberal Arts P&T Review Group. 2009 - 2010.

2009

  • Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing Knowledge Engineering (IEEE NLP-KE'09). 2009.
  • Co-Chair, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networking Symposium. 2009.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN). 2009.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2009 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2009). 2009.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2009 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference – Wireless Networking for Consumer Electronics. 2009.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2009 International Conference on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2009) Ontologies, Semantic Web, and Web Services Track. 2009.
  • Chair, AHSN-04: Cross Layer Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009). 2009.
  • Editor, Special Issue on Distributed Systems of Sensors and Actuators, Journal of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2009.
  • Member, TXST Dean of Science Search Committee. 2008 - 2009.

2008

  • Chair, Student Travel Grant Committee, Fifth Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). 2008.
  • Conference Organizing Committee Member, Wireless Communication (WC) Representative, 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2008) Ad Hoc, Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium, New Orleans, LA. 2008.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2008 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2008) Wireless Communications Symposium. 2008.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2008 ISCA 21st International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Communication Systems (PDCCS-2008). 2008.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08) Information and Network Security Symposium (ICC'08 - INS). 2008.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Fifth Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2008). 2008.

2007

  • Member, MU College of Engineering Promotion and Tenure Committee. 2007.
  • Chair, MU CS Full Professor Promotion and Tenure Committee. 2007.
  • Member, Student Travel Grant Committee, Fourth Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC). 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE 2007). 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2007 IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS 2007). 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2007 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2007) Multimedia Communication Software and Services Symposium. 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Twentieth ISCA International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems (PDCS-2007). 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2007 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Eighth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-07), in conjunction with the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-07). 2007.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Fourth Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2007). 2007.
  • MU Lab Exhibit (Wireless Sensor Networks), 2007 Engineer's Week (CS won the 3rd place). 2007.
  • Chair, MU CS PhD Qualifying Committee. 2003 - 2007.
  • MU Coordinator (CS) of Louis Stokes Missouri Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-MoAMP). 2002 - 2007.
  • MU Liaison (CS) of MU McNair Scholars Program. 2002 - 2007.
  • MU Founding Faculty Advisor, Computer Science Graduate Student Council (CSGSC). 2002 - 2007.
  • Member, MU Graduate College Graduate Directors Committee. 2001 - 2007.
  • MU CS Director of Graduate Studies. 2001 - 2007.
  • Member, MU CS Promotion and Tenure Committee. 2001 - 2007.
  • Chair, MU CS Graduate Study Committee. 2001 - 2007.

2006

  • Reviewer / Referee, P&T, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Connecticut. 2006.
  • Member, Organizing Committee, Fourth International Conference on Information. 2006.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Eighth Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing (HPSEC-06), in conjunction with the 2006 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-06). 2006.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Seventh Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-06), in conjunction with the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-06). 2006.
  • MU Lab Exhibit (Wireless Sensor Networks), 2006 Engineer's Week (CS won the 2nd place). 2006.
  • Member, MU CS Software Systems and Graphics Area Committee. 2005 - 2006.

2005

  • Reviewer / Referee, University of Missouri Research Board. 2005.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2005 IEEE International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering (NLP-KE 2005). 2005.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM 2005) Computer \& Network Security Symposium. 2005.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Embedded Systems (PDES-05), in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005). 2005.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Sixth Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-05), in conjunction with the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-05). 2005.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Tenth International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'05). 2005.
  • Chair, PDES-3: Embedded System Design, 11th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2005). 2005.
  • MU Lab Exhibit (Wireless Sensor Networks), 2005 Engineer's Week (CS won the 3rd place). 2005.
  • Member, MU ECE Faculty Search Committee. 2004 - 2005.

2004

  • Reviewer / Referee, University of Missouri Research Board. 2004.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2004). 2004.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 5th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-04), in conjunction with the 18th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-04). 2004.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2004 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME'2004). 2004.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Third International Conference on Information. 2004.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Ninth International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB'04). 2004.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Chinese Academy of Sciences Symposium on Data Mining and Knowledge Management (CASDMKM-04). 2004.
  • Chair, P2P Networks, Tenth International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2004). 2004.
  • Member, MU CS Faculty Search Committee. 2002 - 2004.
  • Member, MU Graduate Faculty Senate. 2001 - 2004.

2003

  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Fifth Workshop on High Performance Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications (HPSECA-03), in conjunction with the International Conference on Parallel Processing. 2003.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, First IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE2003). 2003.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, 2003 International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering. 2003.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Eighth International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB03). 2003.
  • Chair, Special Session on Distributed Computing and Sensor Networks, First IEEE International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education (ITRE2003). 2003.
  • MU Lab Exhibit (Wireless Sensor Networks), 2003 Engineer's Week (CS won the 3rd place). 2003.
  • Member, MU CECS PhD Qualifying Committee. 2000 - 2003.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Information: An International Interdisciplinary Journal. 1999 - 2003.

2002

  • Reviewer / Referee, P&T, Department of Computer Science, Keele University, UK. 2002.
  • Member, Organizing Committee, Second International Conference on Information. 2002.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Second International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'2002). 2002.

2001

  • Reviewer / Referee, University of Missouri Research Board. 2001.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, First International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Knowledge Engineering, in conjunction with the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC'2001). 2001.
  • Member, MU CECS Graduate Study Committee. 2000 - 2001.
  • Member, MU CECS Faculty Search Committee. 1999 - 2001.
  • Member, MU CECS Space Committee. 1999 - 2001.
  • Member, MU CECS Curriculum Committee. 1999 - 2001.
  • Reviewer / Referee, CRDF Cooperative Grants Program, United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. August 2001.

2000

  • Reviewer / Referee, University of Missouri Research Board. 2000.
  • Co-Chair, SPIE and SIAM Joint International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing IV. 2000.
  • Member, Organizing Committee, First International Conference on Information. 2000.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. 2000.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 2000.
  • Chair, Algorithms and Applications II, SPIE/SIAM Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing IV. 2000.
  • Member, MU College of Engineering International Program Committee. 1997 - 2000.
  • Reviewer / Referee, CRDF Cooperative Grants Program, United States Civilian Research and Development Foundation for the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union. February 2000.

1999

  • Member, MU CECS ABET Committee. 1999.
  • Co-Chair, SPIE and SIAM Joint International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing III. 1999.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1999.
  • Chair, Distributed Systems I, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems. 1999.
  • Test grader for 1999 Annual MATHCOUNTS State Competition sponsored by Missouri Society of Professional Engineers and the College of Engineering. 1999.
  • Member, MU CECS Curriculum Committee Chair. 1998 - 1999.
  • Member, MU College of Engineering Course & Curriculum Committee. 1998 - 1999.
  • Member, MU CECS Faculty Search Committee. 1997 - 1999.
  • Reviewer / Referee, NSF Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement Program (CCLI), Division of Undergraduate Education (DUE), National Science Foundation. February 1999.

1998

  • Co-Chair, SPIE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing II. 1998.
  • Chair, Fuzzy Hardware and Implementation Area, IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems. 1998.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1998.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, Fourth International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics. 1998.
  • Chair, Image/Text Processing and Visualization, Fourth International Conference on Computer Science and Informatics. 1998.
  • Chair, Algorithms and Applications, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1998.
  • Member, MU CECS Graduate Study Committee. 1997 - 1998.

1997

  • Member, MU CECS Doctoral Faculty Certification Committee. 1997.
  • Co-Chair, SPIE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing. 1997.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1997.
  • Member, Technical Program Committee, International Conference on Imaging Science, Systems, and Technology. 1997.
  • Chair, Optimization and Associative Memory, IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. 1997.
  • Chair, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms and Applications, International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications. 1997.
  • Chair, Algorithms and Applications, SPIE Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing. 1997.
  • Chair, Software Environments and Tools, SPIE Conference on Parallel and Distributed Methods for Image Processing. 1997.
  • Member, MU College of Engineering Scholarship Committee. 1996 - 1997.
  • Editor, Special Issue on Advances in Mathematical Imaging, Journal of Electronic Imaging. October 1997.

1996

  • Member, MU CECS103/CECS203 Committee. 1996.
  • Member, MU CECS Laboratory and Equipment Committee. 1995 - 1996.