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D-Index
37
Citations
6615
World Ranking
5078
National Ranking
1764

Pengfei Xia publication distribution in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pengfei Xia sits on this spectrum.

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34 publications 1,065+

This scientist: 121 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,065 publications or more.

Pengfei Xia D-index placement in Electronics and Electrical Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Electronics and Electrical Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Pengfei Xia sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 111+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 111 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to multi-input multi-output millimeter wave wireless communications

Overview

Pengfei Xia is affiliated with Amazon in the United States and has contributed extensively to the field of computer science. Their primary research focus lies within artificial intelligence, with significant work in areas such as adversarial robustness in machine learning, anomaly detection techniques and applications, and generative adversarial networks and image synthesis.

The scientist has published a total of 81 papers in computer science, including key subfields like artificial intelligence with 41 publications, computer vision and pattern recognition with 25, and signal processing with 7. Additional subfields include radiology, nuclear medicine and imaging, and statistical and nonlinear physics.

Pengfei Xia's research topics include:

  • Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Advanced Malware Detection Techniques
  • Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Advanced Image Processing Techniques
  • Digital Media Forensic Detection

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • ACM Computing Surveys

Pengfei Xia has coauthored most frequently with researchers including Ziqiang Li, Bin Li, Hongjing Niu, Ting Zhang, and Yueqi Zeng.

Recent papers authored by Pengfei Xia include:

  • Enhancing Backdoor Attacks With Multi-Level MMD Regularization, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing
  • Data-Efficient Backdoor Attacks, 2022, Proceedings of the Thirty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Other notable related papers by frequent coauthors in the broader research group include:

  • A Systematic Survey of Regularization and Normalization in GANs, 2022, ACM Computing Surveys
  • 3D reconstruction of digital cores based on a model using generative adversarial networks and variational auto-encoders, 2021, Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering
  • A New Perspective on Stabilizing GANs Training: Direct Adversarial Training, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence

Pengfei Xia was awarded the IEEE Fellow distinction in 2020 for contributions to multi-input multi-output millimeter wave wireless communications.

Best Publications

  • Hierarchical Codebook Design for Beamforming Training in Millimeter-Wave Communication

    Zhenyu Xiao;Tong He;Pengfei Xia;Xiang-Gen Xia

  • Achieving the Welch bound with difference sets

    Pengfei Xia;Shengli Zhou;G.B. Giannakis

  • Enabling UAV cellular with millimeter-wave communication: potentials and approaches

    Zhenyu Xiao;Pengfei Xia;Xiang-Gen Xia

  • Design and analysis of transmit-beamforming based on limited-rate feedback

    Pengfei Xia;G.B. Giannakis

  • Adaptive MIMO-OFDM based on partial channel state information

    Pengfei Xia;Shengli Zhou;Shengli Zhou;G.B. Giannakis

  • 60GHz Technology for Gbps WLAN and WPAN: From Theory to Practice

    Su-Khiong Yong;Pengfei Xia;Alberto Valdes-Garcia

  • Distributed Laser Charging: A Wireless Power Transfer Approach

    Qingqing Zhang;Wen Fang;Qingwen Liu;Jun Wu

  • Joint Power Allocation and Beamforming for Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) in 5G Millimeter Wave Communications

    Zhenyu Xiao;Lipeng Zhu;Jinho Choi;Pengfei Xia

  • Charging Unplugged: Will Distributed Laser Charging for Mobile Wireless Power Transfer Work?

    Qingwen Liu;Jun Wu;Pengfei Xia;Shengjie Zhao

  • Codebook Design for Millimeter-Wave Channel Estimation With Hybrid Precoding Structure

    Zhenyu Xiao;Pengfei Xia;Xiang-Gen Xia

  • Full-Duplex Millimeter-Wave Communication

    Zhenyu Xiao;Pengfei Xia;Xiang-Gen Xia

  • BEAMFORMING METHOD, AND METHOD FOR USING BEAM

    Lou Hanqing;Xia Pengfei;Monisha Ghosh;Oghenekome Oteri

  • POWER CONTROL METHOD AND PROCEDURE FOR WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORK

    Oghenekome Oteri;Xia Pengfei;Lou Hanqing;Monisha Ghosh

  • Multiantenna adaptive modulation with beamforming based on bandwidth-constrained feedback

    Pengfei Xia;Shengli Zhou;G.B. Giannakis

  • A method and apparatus for medium access control for uniform multiple access points coverage in wireless local area networks

    Xiaofei Wang;Guodong Zhang;Oghenekome Oteri;Pengfei Xia

  • Method and system for analog beamforming in wireless communication systems

    Huaning Niu;Pengfei Xia;Chiu Ngo

  • System and method for antenna training of beamforming vectors by selective use of beam level training

    Su Khiong Yong;Huai-Rong Shao;Xiangping Qin;Pengfei Xia

  • Method and system for application of unequal error protection to uncompressed video for transmission over wireless channels

    Huaning Niu;Pengfei Xia;Chiu Ngo

  • Bandwidth- and power-efficient multi-carrier multiple access

    Pengfei Xia;Shengli Zhou;G.B. Giannakis

  • Bandwidth- and power-efficient multicarrier multiple access

    Pengfei Xia;Shengli Zhou;G.B. Giannakis

  • Enhanced Channel Estimation and Codebook Design for Millimeter-Wave Communication

    Zhenyu Xiao;Hang Dong;Lin Bai;Pengfei Xia

Frequent Co-Authors

Chiu Ngo
Chiu Ngo Samsung (United States)
Robert L. Olesen
Robert L. Olesen InterDigital (United States)
Georgios B. Giannakis
Georgios B. Giannakis University of Minnesota
Xiang-Gen Xia
Xiang-Gen Xia University of Delaware
Zhenyu Xiao
Zhenyu Xiao Beihang University
Monisha Ghosh
Monisha Ghosh University of Chicago
Shengli Zhou
Shengli Zhou University of Connecticut
Huai-Rong Shao
Huai-Rong Shao Samsung (South Korea)
Harkirat Singh
Harkirat Singh Samsung (India)
Jinho Choi
Jinho Choi University of Adelaide

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