Prof. Xu obtained her doctoral degree from Leibniz University, Hanover, Germany. She is a full-time professor at Soochow University. Her research topics mainly fall into the categories of intelligent sensing, multi-sensor measurement, structural health monitoring, machine learning, and robust modelling for infrastructures. She has published more than 60 SCI journal papers as the first/corresponding author, with an IF sum of more than 500. She has gained several world competitive awards, including the Seal of Excellence in the Marie Curie Actions, which is granted by the European Commission. Five of her papers were selected as “highly cited papers” in the Web of Science system, and two were selected as “hot papers”. She has served as a reviewer for about 50 SCI journals and is ranked among the top 1% of reviewers in Publons (Web of Sci). She organized five Special Issues of Sensors, Symmetry, IJDSN, and AIME journals as a guest editor and served as an associate editor of the SCI journal MAMS.