Minxian Xu

Dr. Minxian Xu is  currently an Associate Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy Science (SIAT). He is a team member of Cloud Computing Research Center directed by Prof. Chengzhong Xu. He has published 70+ research papers in prominent journals and conferences (2 ESI highly cited papers), including CSUR x3, TSC x2, TMC, TAAS, TOIT, TSUSC x5, TNSM, TCC, TGCN, TASE, TCE, ICSOC x4 and ICWS. These research work has attracted 3500+ citations (Google Scholar data). He has been the Program Chair/Program Committee for 20+ international conferences, and has given 30+ oral presentations. He is the PI/Co-PI of 10+ research projects, including grants from NSFC, Ministry of Science and Technology, CAS PIFI, Guangdong NSF, Shenzhen Government, Alibaba and Huawei. He is also the active reviewer for 50+ journals and conferences, such as TPDS, TC, ToN, TMC, TSE, TSC, TPAMI, TKDE, and ICDCS. His research interests are resource scheduling in Clouds, like load balancing and energy efficiency for Clouds, and microservice management under Cloud-native environment. His PhD thesis was awarded the 2019 IEEE TCSC Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award, and he was hornored to be awarded the 2023 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence (Early Career Award), and among the 2023 and 2024 World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University. He has been selected as 2023 Australia China Alumni Award for Research & Science (Judges’ Commendation).  He is a Senior Member of both IEEE and CCF. 

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Dr. Xu lectured three subjects at SIAT, including Distributed Computing Principle, Cloud Computing and Virtualization, Cloud Computing Technology and Engineering, with good evaluation scores from students (ranging from 4.84 to 5.0 out of 5.0). He has been awarded with Excellent Teacher Award at SIAT. 

 

Before joined SIAT, he worked as Research Fellow/Research Assistant at University of Melbourne and Monash University for several months. He got his PhD degree in April 2019,  CLOUDS lab, School of Computing Information Systems, University of Melbourne, under the supervision of Prof. Rajkumar Buyya. 

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He obtained his bachelor and master degree from School of Information and Software Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China at 2012 and 2015 respectively, supervised by Prof. Wenhong Tian, both in Software Engineering. 

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He was born in Yingtan, Jiangxi Province, China.