He earned his PhD degree in Materials Science from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and worked as a postdoctoral researcher and Assistant Research Engineer at the University of California  Berkeley, and as a Research Assistant Professor at University of Tennessee  Knoxville, prior to joining OSU in 2016. Dr. Xus group is using a variety of experimental and computational techniques to study the processing-structure-property-performance relationships in metallic materials and develop new compositions of advanced alloys.