Academic Qualification

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Master in Nanjing University

Bachelor in Nanjing University

Teaching Area

• Remote Sensing

• Physics

• Experiments in Remote Sensing

• Planetary Science

Research Area

• Surface Processes on Planetary Bodies

• Ground Penetrating Radar Data Processing and Inversion

• Planetary Radar

• Remote Sensing Technology

• Space Big Data Analysis

• Network-on-Chip

• Computer Architecture

Professional Services

• Youth Editorial Board Member of Earth Science (Chinese–English bilingual journal), since 2024

• Committee Member of the Space Science Big Data Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Space Science, since 2025

Working Experience

• Jul. 2025 ~ present, Professor, Department of Space Science and Technology, Faculty of Innovation Engineering, MUST

• Jul. 2021 ~ Jun. 2025, Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, MUST

• Jul.2013 ~ Jun. 2021, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information Technology, MUST

• Apr. 2012 ~ Jun. 2013, Senior Researcher, AMD Research China Lab, Beijing, China

• Sep. 2007 ~ Mar. 2012, Research/Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Engineering, University of Pittsburgh

Academic Publication (selected)

1. R. Liu, X. Zhang*, S. Zhao, Y. Xu*, P. Luo, Y. Li*, et al., Million-year solar wind irradiation recorded in chang’E-5 and chang’E-6 samples, Nature Communications, 16(1), 2026.

2. Lai, J., Xu, Y.*, Bugiolacchi, R. et al. “First look by the Yutu-2 rover at the deep subsurface structure at the lunar farside”, Nature Communications 11, 3426 (2020).

3. R. Liu, S. Zhao, Yi Xu*, Q. Yang, X. Zhang*, et al., Meteoroid flux at sub-meter scales is homogeneous across the Lunar nearside and farside, Communications Earth & Environment, 7: 289, (2026).

4. Xindong Meng, Ling Zhang, Yi Xu, Giannakis Iraklis, Roberto Bugiolacch, et al., Evidence of shallow subsurface ice at Tianwen-1 landing site, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 678:119832, 2026.

5. H Cao, J Li*, Y Xu*, C Zhang, Multi‐phase evolution and composition variations of volcanic activities on the lunar farside revealed by Chang'e‐4 lunar penetrating radar, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130 (3), e2024JE008740, 2025.

6. X Xu, Y Xu*, Z Han, HK Wong, X Meng, Y Zhao, R Bugiolacchi, S Jin, Shallow Water Ice Detection From SHARAD Data in Central Utopia Planitia, Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 130 (1), e2023JE008145, 2025.

7. L Zhang, X Meng, Y Qian, Y Xu*, X Zhang, Z Liu, J Lai, R Gao, A Flat-bottomed Buried Crater and Paleo-layered Structures Revealed at the Von Kármán Crater Using Lunar Penetrating Radar, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 978(1), 2024.

8. R Chen, W Lu, X Li, X Wang, K Chen, C Zhang, N Cao, Z Xu, Y Xu, etc., Chang’E-7 Lunar Soil Water Molecule Analyzer (LSWMA) Prototype for High-Precision Measurement of Water Content and Hydrogen Isotope Ratio, Journal of Earth Science 35 (6), 2180-2182, 2024.

9. HK Wong, Y Xu*, B Wang, R Chen, X Meng, Permittivity estimation with Adaptive Genetic Algorithm and its application in the detection of lava tubes, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.

10. Qiquan Yang, Yi Xu*, TC Chakraborty, etc., A global urban heat island intensity dataset: Generation, comparison, and analysis, Remote Sensing of Environment, 312, 2024.

11. Zhizhong Kang*, Xiaojian Xu, Yi Xu, Shuo Yao, Zhonglu Lei, Boxun Zhang, Jinhao Cai, Meng Xiao, Teng Hu, Shallow Subsurface Structure of the Moon: Key Questions for Future Exploration, Space: Science & Technology, 4, 2024.

12. R Liu, Y Xu*, Q Yang*, High-Resolution and Spatial-Continuous 3D Model Reconstruction of Martian Surface by Integrating Multi-Sensor Data of Zhurong Rover, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2024.

13. C Zou, J Lai, Y Liu, F Cui, Y Xu, L Qiao, Small lunar crater identification and age estimation in Chang'e-5 landing area based on improved Faster R-CNN, Icarus, 410, 2024.

14. Zexin Guo, Yi Xu*, Dagang Li, Yemeng Wang, Kim-Chiu Chow, Renrui Liu, Qiquan Yang, Martian Dust Devil Detection Based on Improved Faster R-CNN, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, 2024.

15. Qiquan Yang, Yi Xu*, Dawei Wen, etc., Satellite Clear‐Sky Observations Overestimate Surface Urban Heat Islands in Humid Cities, Geophysical Research Letters, 51(2), 2024.

16. Qiquan Yang, Yi Xu*, Xiaohua Tong, etc., Influence of urban extent discrepancy on the estimation of surface urban heat island intensity: A global-scale assessment in 892 cities”, Journal of Cleaner Production, 426, 2023.

17. Q Yang, Y Xu*, X Tong, etc., An adaptive synchronous extraction (ASE) method for estimating intensity and footprint of surface urban heat islands: A case study of 254 North American cities, Remote Sensing of Environment 297, 113777, 2023.

18. L Zhang, Y Xu*, R Liu, R Chen, R Bugiolacchi, R Gao, The Dielectric Properties of Martian Regolith at the Tianwen‐1 Landing Site, Geophysical Research Letters 50 (13), e2022GL102207, 2023.

19. X Meng, Y Xu*, Q Jin, L Xiao, X Xu, H Liu, Compositional Constraints of Ice Lobes at the Edge of Martian South Polar Cap and the Possibility for CO₂ Ice, The Astronomical Journal, 166:6, Nov. 2023.

20. M Zhang, J Zhao, L Xiao, Y Xu, R Bugiolacchi, J Wang, Fan-shaped deposits in the northern Hellas region, Mars: Implications for the evolution of water reservoir and climate, Icarus 395, 115470, 2023.

21. R Liu, Y Xu*, R Chen, J Zhao, X Xu, An improved hyperbolic method and its application to property inversion in Martian Tianwen-1 GPR data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2023.

22. Ruonan Chen, Ling Zhang, Yi Xu*, Renrui Liu, Roberto Bugiolacchi, Xiaoping Zhang, Lu Chen, Zhaofa Zeng, Cai Liu, Martian soil as revealed by ground-penetrating radar at the Tianwen-1 landing site, Geology, 51(3), pp.315-319, 2023.

23. H Cao, Y Xu*, L Xu, L Zhang, R Bugiolacchi, F Zhang, From Schrödinger to Von Kármán: An Intriguing New Geological Structure Revealed by the Chang'e‐4 Lunar Penetrating Radar, Geophysical Research Letters 50 (2), e2022GL101413, 2023.

24. Mingjie Zhang, Qi Yan, Yi Xu*, Long Xiao, Jiannan Zhao, Dingbao Song, Jiang Wang, Shuoran Yu, Zhenkun He, Hansheng Liu, Deshan Cui, Xiaoping Zhang. Self-weight consolidation process of water-saturated deltas on Mars and Earth, Icarus, 390: 115304, 2023.1.

25. Ruonan Chen, Yi Xu*, Minggang Xie, Ling Zhang, Shengli Niu, Roberto Bugiolacchi. Sub-surface stratification and dielectric permittivity distribution at the Chang’E-4 landing site revealed by the lunar penetrating radar, Astronomy & Astrophysics, 664:A35, 2022.8.

26. Shuai Fu, Zheyi Ding, Yongjie Zhang, Xiaoping Zhang, Cunhui Li, Gang Li, Shuwen Tang, Haiyan Zhang, Yi Xu, Yuming Wang, Jingnan Guo, Lingling Zhao, Yi Wang, Xiangyu Hu, Pengwei Luo, Zhiyu Sun, Yuhong Yu, Lianghai Xie, First report of a solar energetic particle event observed by China’s Tianwen-1 mission in transit to Mars, The Astrophysical Journal Letters 934 (1), L15, 2022.

27. XU Yi, Z Ling, LAI Jialong. In-situ Lunar Penetrating Radar Experiments on the Moon of CE-3 and CE-4 Missions, 中国航天 (英文版) 22 (3), 24-31, 2021.

28. Lai J, Xu Y*, Bugiolacchi R, Wong HK, Xu L, Zhang X, et al. A Complex Paleo‐Surface revealed by the Yutu‐2 Rover at the Lunar Farside,” Geophys Res Lett. 48 (20), e2021GL095133, 2021 Sep 30.

29. Zhang L, Xu Y*, Zeng Z, Li J, Zhang D. Simulation of Martian Near-Surface Structure and Imaging of Future GPR Data From Mars, IEEE Trans Geosci Remote Sens. 60, 1-12, 2021.

30. You J, Zhang X, Zhang H, Li C, Xu Y, Yan Q, et al., Analysis of plume–lunar surface interaction and soil erosion during the Chang’E-4 landing process, Acta Astronaut. 2021;185:337–51.

31. Zhang L, Xu Y*, Bugiolacchi R, Hu B, Liu C, Lai J, et al. Rock abundance and evolution of the shallow stratum on Chang’e-4 landing site unveiled by lunar penetrating radar data, Earth Planet Sci Lett. 2021 Jun, 564:116912.

32. Y Dang, F Zhang, J Zhao, J Wang, Y Xu, T Huang, L Xiao, Diverse Polygonal Patterned Grounds in the Northern Eridania Basin, Mars: Possible Origins and Implications, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, e2020JE006647, 2020.

33. Roberto Orosei, Chunyu Ding, Wenzhe Fa, Antonios Giannopoulos, Alain Hérique, Wlodek Kofman, Sebastian E Lauro, Chunlai Li, Elena Pettinelli, Yan Su, Shuguo Xing, Yi Xu, The Global Search for Liquid Water on Mars from Orbit: Current and Future Perspectives, Life 10 (8), 120(2020).

34. Ling Zhang, Jing Li, Zhaofa Zeng, Yi Xu, Cai Liu, Shengbo Chen, Stratigraphy of the Von Kármán Crater based on Chang’E‐4 Lunar Penetrating Radar Data, Geophysical Research Letters, 08 July 2020.

35. Xu Meng, Yi Xu*, Long Xiao, Zhiyong Xiao, Permittivity Estimation of Subsurface Deposits in the Elysium–Utopia Region on Mars with MRO Shallow Radar Sounder Data, The Astronomical Journal, 159 (4), pp.156, 2020.

36. Xu Meng, Yi Xu*, Long Xiao, Yanan Dang, et al., Ground-penetrating radar measurements of subsurface structures of lacustrine sediments in the Qaidam Basin (NW China): Possible implications for future in-situ radar experiments on Mars, Icarus, Volume 338, 113576, 1 March 2020.

37. Jialong Lai, Yi Xu*, Xiaoping Zhang, Long Xiao, et al.,Comparison of dielectric properties and structure of lunar regolith at Chang'e‐3 and Chang'e‐4 landing sites revealed by ground‐penetrating radar, Geophysical Research Letters, 46 (22), 12783-12793.

38. Q Yan, X Zhang, L Xie, D Guo, Y Li, Y Xu, Z Xiao, K Di, L Xiao, Weak Dust Activity Near a Geologically Young Surface Revealed by Chang'E‐3 Mission, Geophysical Research Letters 46 (16), 9405-9413, 2019.

39. Fan Yang, Yi Xu*, Kwing Lam Chan, Xiaoping Zhang, Guoping Hu, Yong Li, Study of Chang’E-2 Microwave Radiometer Data in the Lunar Polar Region, Advances in Astronomy, 2019.

40. Jiang Wang, Long Xiao, Dennis Reiss, Harald Hiesinger, Jun Huang, Yi Xu, Jiannan Zhao, Zhiyong Xiao, Goro Komatsu, Geological features and evolution of Yardangs in the Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau (NW China): a terrestrial analogue for Mars, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123(9), 2019, pp. 2336-2364.

41. Ting Huang, Ruicheng Wang, Long Xiao, Hongmei Wang, José M. Martínez, Cristina Escudero, Ricardo Amils, Ziye Cheng, Yi Xu, Dalangtan Playa (Qaidam Basin, NW China): It's microbial life and physicochemical characteristics and their astrobiological implications, PLOS ONE, 2018.

42. Y. Dang, L. Xiao, Y. Xu, F. Zhang, J. Huang, J. Wang, J. Zhao, G. Komatsu, Z. Yue, The Polygonal Surface Structures in the Dalangtan Playa, Qaidam Basin, NW China: Controlling Factors for their Formation and Implications for Analogous Martian Landforms, Journal of Geophysical Research – Planets, 2018.

43. Yi Xu, Jun Yang, Rami Melhem, A Process Variation Tolerant Method for Nanophotonic On-Chip Network, Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems, Volume 14, Issue 2, July 2018.

44. Sheng Gou, Zongyu Yue, Kaichang Di, Yi Xu, Quantitative comparison of morphometric and hydrological characteristics of valley networks between Evros Vallis on Mars and Kaidu River in Tarim Basin as terrestrial analog, Journal of Remote Sensing, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 313-323, 2018.

45. Jialong Lai, Yi Xu*, Xiaoping Zhang, Zesheng Tang, Lunar Regolith Stratigraphy Analysis Based On The Simulation of Lunar Penetrating Radar Signals, Advances in Space Research, Vol. 60, Issue 9, pp. 2099-2107, 2017.

46. Long Xiao, Jiang Wang, Yanan Dang, Ziye Cheng, Ting Huang, Jiannan Zhao, Yi Xu, Jun Huang, Zhiyong Xiao, Goro Komatsu, A new terrestrial analogue site for Mars research: The Qaidam Basin, Tibetan Plateau (NW China), Earth-Science Reviews, Vol. 164, Jan. 2017, Pages 84–101.

47. Jialong Lai, Yi Xu*, Xiaoping Zhang, Zesheng Tang, Structural analysis of lunar subsurface with Chang'E-3 lunar penetrating radar, Planetary and Space Science, Vol.120, pp.96-102, 2016.

48. G. Chen, Y. Xu, X. Hu, X. Guo, J. Ma, Y. Hu, Y. Xie, TSocket: Thermal Sustainable Power Budgeting, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Vol. 21 Issue 2, Jan. 2016.

49. Yi Xu, Bo Zhao, Youtao Zhang, Jun Yang, Simple Virtual Channel Allocation for High-Throughput and High-Frequency On-Chip Routers, ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing, Vol.2, Issue 1, 2015.

50. Yi Xu, Sudeep Pasricha, Silicon Nanophotonics for Future Multicore Architectures: Opportunities & Challenges,” IEEE Design & Test of Computers, Vol. 31, Issue 5, 2014.

51. Zhiguo Meng, Yi Xu, etc. Inversion of lunar regolith thickness with CELMS data using artificial neural network method, Planetary and Space Science, Vol. 101, p. 1-11, 2014.

52. Xiuyi Zhou, Jun Yang, Yi Xu, Youtao Zhang, Xuandong Li, Thermal Management for 3D Processors via Task Scheduling, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Jan. 2010.

Research Grants

• 2012.11 - 2014.10, Silicon-photonic Network-on-Chip for multi-core System (Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture)

• 2017.01 - 2018.12, Comparative Study of the Polygonal Surface Structures in the Qaidam Basin and Mars (Open Fund of State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science)

• 2015.04 - 2018.04, Analog study of typical geomorphology of Qaidam basin and Mars (FDCT)

• 2018.03 - 2021.03, Comparative study of basin evolution of paleo-basins in Terra Sirenum on Mars and the Qaidam Basin: Implications for astrobiology study (FDCT)

• 2019.07 - 2021.06, Searching for subglacial water on Mars with orbiting ground penetrating radars (ISSI/ISSI-BJ Joint Proposal for International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences)

• 2019.09 - 2022.09, Radar Detection of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars (FDCT)

• 2020.01 - 2022.12, Main geological processes and the habitability of Mars (China Space Agency Civil Aerospace Technology Advance Research Project)

• 2024.10 - 2027.10, Polarimetric Radar Imaging and Material Property Analysis of the Martian Shallow Subsurface (FDCT)

• 2024.10 – 2027.10, Research on the detection technology of lava tubes by ground penetrating radar: inspiration for the construction of lunar bases (FDCT)

Patents

• US Patent 10,361,175, Voltage droop mitigation in 3D chip system.

• Australian Patent No. 2018100159, Method of Sorting Objects in an Image.

• US Patent 9,792,228, Enhancing lifetime of non-volatile cache by injecting random replacement policy.

• US Patent 9,767,043, 2017, Enhancing lifetime of non-volatile cache by reducing intra-block write variation.

• US Patent 9,552,301, 2017, Method and apparatus related to cache memory.

• US Patent 9,454,419, 2016, Partitionable data bus.

• Australian Innovation Patent 2016101504, Method for Edge Detection.

• US Patent US Patent 11,474,703, 2022, Memory system with region-specific memory access scheduling.

• US Patent 9,317,448,2016, Methods and apparatus related to data processors and caches incorporated in data processors.

• 中国专利号Chinese Patent No. CN101145140 Dynamic Adaptive Bus Arbiter Based on Multi-Processor Systems-on-Chip (MPSoC).

Professional Certification and Awards

• National Innovation Medal (Collective Award, ranked 4 out of 16) in 2026.

• First representative from Macau to join the Chinese delegation at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) meeting in 2025.

• BOC Excellent Research Award in 2025.

• Second Prize of the Macau Natural Science Award (ranked second) in 2022.

Student Awards

• Wenzhen Lu, Rui Chen --- Silver Award & Best Community Award, International Space Science and Scientific Payload Competition, ISSSP 2025.