He received his Ph.D. degree in CAD/Graphics and Applied Mathematics from Zhejiang University in 2008, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow with Prof. Bernard Mourrain at INRIA Sophia-antipolis from 2008 to 2010. He has worked at Cardiff University with Prof. Stephane P.A Bordas, CUHK with Prof. Weiyin Ma, HKU with Prof. Wenping Wang and CUHK with Prof. KC Hui and Prof. Charlie Wang for short period. Dr. Xu ’s research focuses on isogeometric analysis and geometric modeling. He has published more than 50 publications in refereed journals and conferences，such as CAD, CMAME, Journal of Computational Physics and Computational Mechanics. His work on analysis-suitable volumetric parameterization is nominated as the best paper awards at Solid and Physical Modeling 2012.