Song Xing received his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Southeast University, China, and his Ph.D. degree from George Mason University, Virginia, all in electrical & computer engineering.

From 1990 to 1995, he was a Lecturer in the School of Information Science and Technology at Southeast University, and a Researcher at the National Mobile Communications Research Laboratory, China.

He was a Visiting Researcher in the Electrical & Computer Engineering departments at University of Michigan-Dearborn from February 1995 to April 1995 and Boston University from May 1995 to August 1996, respectively. From August 2000 to May 2003, he was an Instructor with the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department at George Mason University.

In 2003, Dr. Xing joined California State University, Los Angeles where he is currently a Full Professor in the Information Systems Department.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
Information systems measurement and management, computer networks, wireless & mobile communications, information retrieval, and information security

COURSE TAUGHT

• CIS 100 - Business Computer Systems

• CIS 283 - Introduction to Application Programming with Java

• CIS 4100 - Hardware and Software Architecture

• CIS 445 - Network Applications Development

• CIS 454 - Multimedia Network Communications 

• CIS 4240 - Wide Area Networks

• CIS 4720 - Wireless Communications and Networks

• CIS 4730 - Network Security Essentials and Practice

• CIS 4840 - Communications Systems

• CIS 485 - Local Area Networks

• CIS 5100 - IS/IT Architectures

• CIS 528 - Multimedia Network Communications 

• CIS 528 - Wireless and Personal Communications Systems

• CIS 560 - Microcomputer Networks

• CIS 5730 – Computer and Network Security

• CIS 585 - Communication and Information Services

• CIS 5980 - Graduate Direct Study