Dr. Xu received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering (1991) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. Dr. Xu was the faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University before taking the “Chang Jiang Scholar” Distinguished Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2003. She received the “Outstanding Youth Award” by Chinese Natural Science Foundation (CNSF) in 2007, and was the recipient of Natural Science Award from Chinese Ministry of Education (2nd place) in 2010. Her research interests encompass fundamental study of bio-thermal physics, cancer thermal therapy, and medical device supported by NCI and NSF while in US, and subsequently by Chinese NSF, key national center grants from Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology. She has published more than 180 peer reviewed journal papers and conference proceedings, and five book chapters, and elected to ASME, AIBME, IAMBE fellow. She is currently serving as Vice President of Shanghai Association for Science & Technology，Vice President of Shanghai Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese，Vice Director of Association for Graduate Education in China.

1981-1986 Bachelor - Shanghai Medical University (jointly w. Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

1986-1988 M.D. - University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

1988-1991 Ph.D. -University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA

2015-present, Chair Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

2009–2015, Distinguished Professor, School of Biomedical Engineering, Med-X Research Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

2003–2008,“Chang Jiang Scholar” Distinguished Professor, School of Life Sci. and Biotech., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

1997–2004, Associate Professor (with tenure), School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, USA

1999–2004, Adjunct Associate Professor, Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, USA

1997–1997, Associate Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Applied Sciences, CSI, The City Univ. of New York, USA

1996–1997, Adjunct Research Faculty, Center for Biomed. Eng., The City College of New York, USA

1991–1996, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Applied Sciences, CSI, The City Univ. of New York, USA

1. Fundamental study of bio-thermal physics
2. Thermal treatment related medical device design and development

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Science and Technology Progress Award by Ministry of Education, First Class-Theory of Heuristic Search (1987);

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Member of Technical Advisory Board, Microsoft Research Asia (1997-present);

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Principles of Pharmacogenomics - BIOMEDIN 224, GENE 224 (Aut, Win, Spr)