Academic Staff

BEng (HUST), BBA (WHU), MEng(HUST), PhD(HKU)

Biography

Prof. Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU). He received his PhD in Systems Engineering from The University of Hong Kong, as well as his Master’s degree in Systems Engineering and Bachelor’s degree in Automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He also holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Wuhan University. Prior to joining PolyU, Prof. Xu served as an Assistant Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen (HITsz), a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, and a Research Assistant at City University of Hong Kong.

Research Interests

Human-Autonomy Teaming; Learning-based Optimization; Safety, Reliability and Resilience; Aircraft Maintenance; UAV Systems; Emergency Management

Courses

• AAE3006 Safety, Reliability and Compliance
• AAE5103 Artificial Intelligence in Aviation Industry
  

Selected Publications

• Zhang, X., Long, Y., & Xu, G.* (2026). Data-driven electric vehicle fleet sizing for airport baggage transport via a two-stage shareability network. European Journal of Operational Research.
  
• Wang, D., Xu, G.*, Qu, C., & Wu, Z. (2025). Game-Theoretic Reinforcement Learning-Based Behavior-Aware Merging in Mixed Traffic. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 27(1), 483-500.
• Dong, W., Xu, G.*, Zhang, X., & Qiu, X. (2025). Smoothed dynamic scheduling of aircraft engines with off-site warehouse. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 66, 103451.
• Liu, Y., Xie, B.*, Long, Y., Chen, J., & Xu, G.* (2025). Learning-Based Heterogeneous Autonomous Vehicles Scheduling for On-Demand Last-Mile Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.
• Zhang, X., Wang, X., Dong, W., & Xu, G.* (2025). Adaptive large neighborhood search for autonomous electric vehicle scheduling in airport baggage transport service. Computers & Operations Research, 182, 107086.
• Chen, J., Wan, P., & Xu, G.* (2024). Cooperative learning-based joint UAV and human courier scheduling for emergency medical delivery service. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 26(1), 935-949.
• Wan, P., Xu, G.*, Chen, J., & Zhou, Y. (2024). Deep reinforcement learning enabled multi-UAV scheduling for disaster data collection with time-varying value. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 25(7), 6691-6702.
• Wang, X., Xu, G.*, Zhou, Z., & Zou, Y. (2024). Sequential feature-augmented deep multilabel learning for compound fault diagnosis of rotating machinery with few labeled and imbalanced data. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 20(12), 13947-13955.
• Wan, P., Wang, S., Xu, G.*, Long, Y., & Hu, R. (2024). Hybrid heuristic-based multi-UAV route planning for time-dependent data collection. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(13), 24134-24147.
• Long, Y., Xu, G.*, Zhao, J., Xie, B., & Fang, M. (2023). Dynamic truck–UAV collaboration and integrated route planning for resilient urban emergency response. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 71, 9826-9838.
  
  

Professional Services

• Editorial Board Member - Advanced Engineering Informatics
• Editorial Board Member - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
• Special Corresponding Expert - ENGINEERING Management
• Associate Editor - International Journal of Transportation and Logistics Research