Junior Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, Rutgers Business School (2007), IBM ESA Innovation Award (2008), Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence (2009), Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN (2011), 2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award (2011), ACM Distinguished Scientist (2014), IEEE ICDM Outstanding Service Award (2017), RBS Dean’s Research Professor (2016), The Ram Charan Management Practice Award as the Grand Prix winner, the Harvard Business Review (2018), IEEE Fellow (2020), AAAS Fellow (2020), Rutgers University Distinguished Professor, 2021.
Xiong became an assistant professor in the management science and information systems department of Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick in 2005. He became an associate professor in the same place in 2009. In 2014, he became a full professor in the same place in 2014. He became a Rutgers Business School Dean's Research Professor in 2016.[2] Now he is a distinguished professor in the same place starting from 2021.
Xiong served as deputy dean of Baidu Research Institute [3] and the founding head of business intelligence lab as well as the founding head of talent intelligence center of Baidu Inc. while on leave from Rutgers University.[4]
Xiong serves as a co-editor-in-chief of Encyclopedia of GIS.[5] In addition, he is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD),[6]ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD)[7] and ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS).[8] In 2018, Xiong served as a PC chair of the research track for the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD).[9] In 2013 and 2015, he as a general chair of the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM).[10] He also served as an industry and government track co-chair of the 18th ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) in 2012[11]
Dean’s Award for Meritorious Research, Rutgers Business School, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015.
2011 IEEE ICDM Best Research Paper Award for the paper ”Personalized Travel Package Recommendation”, published at IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (one out of 786 submissions), 2011.
Second Prize of Unsupervised and Transfer Learning Challenge, ICML and IJCNN, 2011.
Rutgers University Board of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence, 2009.
