X. George Xu, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
TweetX. George Xu
American nuclear engineer
Date of Birth: 13-Jun-1962
Place of Birth: Wuhan, Hubei, China
Profession: engineer
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About X. George Xu
- Xie George Xu is currently the Edward E.
- Hood Chair Professor of Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York, United States. George Xu received a B.S.
- in Physics from Xidian University in Xi'an, China in 1983.
- After working several years, he came to study in the United States where he received a Ph.D.in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1994.
- He then joined RPI as Assistant Professor (with a joint appointment as the Director of the Office Radiation and Nuclear Safety) and was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2001 and then Professor in 2006.
- From 2011 to 2013, he served as the Head of Nuclear Engineering Program at RPI.
- Xu is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, Health Physics Society, and American Association of Medical Physicists. Xu leads the Rensselaer Radiation Measurement and Dosimetry Group (RRDMG).
- He and his colleagues are interested in novel computational and experimental methods that have important and diverse applications in radiation protection, radiation measurement, shielding design]], reactor modeling, medical imaging, and radiotherapy.
- In particular, he uses Monte Carlo simulations as a research tool and has nearly 30 years of experience in various production Monte Carlo codes.
- His recent research projects have included such diverse topics as parallel Monte Carlo computing using GPU/CUDA, nanomaterials-based x-ray sources, X-ray computed tomography (CT) and proton radiotherapy, compressive sensing.
- Xu has directed numerous projects, with a total of about $20 million in grant funding from agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Electric Power Research Institute, as well as private nuclear power industry.
- Xu has graduated 21 Ph.D.
- and 12 M.S.
- students at RPI.
- He has authored or co-authored 180 peer-reviewed journal papers and books chapters, 370 conference abstracts, 120 invited seminars and presentations, 5 patents/disclosures and 5 software packages.
- An internationally recognized leading expert in Monte Carlo computation and radiation protection dosimetry, Xu is a co-founder of the International Consortium of Computational Human Phantoms and co-edited Handbook of Anatomical Models for Radiation Dosimetry.
Read more at Wikipedia