Dr. Xu received the Ph.D. degree from Southeast University, Nanjing, China, in 2003. From October 2005 to December 2007, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. He was a Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Chang Jiang Scholar of the Ministry of Education of China. He is currently a Professor with the Business School, Sichuan University, Chengdu.
He has been elected as Academician of IASCYS (International academy for systems and cybernetic sciences), Fellow of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), Fellow of IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association), Fellow of RSA (Royal Society of Arts), Fellow of IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology), Fellow of BCS (British Computer Society), and ranked 431th among World’s Top 100,000 Scientists in 2019.
He has contributed more than 500 SCI/SSCI articles to professional journals, and is among the world’s top 1% most highly cited researchers with about 60,000 citations, his h-index is 123. He is currently the Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, Information Sciences, Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making, etc. His current research interests include decision making, computing with words, big data analytics, fuzzy systems and applications, etc.