Dr. Minxian Xu is currently an Associate Professor at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the BSc degree in 2012 and the MSc degree in 2015, both in software engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Melbourne in 2019.  His research interests focus on resource optimization in cloud computing and efficient management for microservice-based applications. He has co-authored 50+ peer-reviewed papers published in prominent international journals and conferences, such as ACM CSUR, ACM TOIT, IEEE TSUSC, IEEE TNSM, IEEE TCC, IEEE TASE and IEEE TGCN, including 2 ESI Highly Cited papers. These research work has attracted 1800+ citations (Google Scholar data). His Ph.D. Thesis was awarded the 2019 IEEE TCSC Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation Award.

He is the Guest Editor of the special issue of Software: Practice and Experience, and he has been the Program Chair/Program Committee for 10+ international conferences, and has given 20+ oral presentations. He is the PI/Co-PI of 10+ research projects, including grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shenzhen Government, Alibaba and Huawei. He is also the active reviewer for 40+ journals and conferences, such as TPDS, ToN, TMC, TSC, TSUSC, TCC, TASE, TGCN, TNSM, TII, TETCI, ToMPECS and ICDCS. More information can be found at: minxianxu.info.