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I. BASIC INFORMATION

Name:                         Bugao Xu

Sex:                                   Male

Position held:              Full Professor, University of Texas at Austin （UT Austin),

School of Human Ecology

Dr. Bugao Xu received his Ph. D. in Textile Sciences at Department of Materials an Nuclear Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park in August 1992, started his career at the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) as an Assistant Professor in January 1993, and later was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and Full Professor in 2004 at UT Austin.  After 23 years of service at UT Austin, he joined the faculty of the University of North Texas (UNT) in August 2016. Currently, he is a professor and the chair of UNT’s Department of Merchandising and Digital Retailing, and an affiliated member with the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, and Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Process Institute. His investigative research focuses on digital modeling and characterization of textile materials, 3D body imaging, apparel fit and customization, made-to-measure technology, and artificial intelligence in retail applications.  He is also engaged in cross-disciplinary research, such as obesity assessment and automated pavement inspection. Up to date, he has authored more than 200 refereed journal publications (including over 160 SCI-indexed journal papers), and over 90 peer-reviewed conference proceedings. As a PI, he received over $5.2 million grants from US-NSF, USDA, NIH, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Department of Transportation, Texas Food and Fiber Commission, Cotton Inc., Walmart Foundation, VF and other private businesses. He also did extensive consultative/cooperative work with consumer-products companies such as P&G, Unilever, J&J, and Maytag. 

II. EDUCATION

1993              University of Maryland at College Park, USA, Postdoc fellow in Material Science

1992          University of Maryland at College Park, USA, Ph.D in Textile Sciences

1991          University of Maryland at College Park, USA, M.S. in Textile Engineering

1984              Northwest Textile Engineering Institute, China, Textile Technology

III. WORKING EXPERIENCE

2006-Present               Chairman, Fabrate, LLC, USA

2002-Present        Ph.D. Advisor, UT Austin, Material Science and Engineering

1998-Present       Ph.D. Advisor, UT Austin, Biomedical Engineering

1997-Present        Professor, UT Austin，Center for Transportation

2003-2008           Division Head, UT Austin，School of Human Ecology

1993-Present        UT Austin，School of Human Ecology

1984-1988      Lecturer, Northwest Textile Engineering Institute, China

IV. RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Scientific results

2005       Top Innovation and Finding, Artificial Lighting for TxDOT’s Automated Pavement Crack Rating System, Texas Department of Transportation

2004    Teaching Excellence Award, UT Austin, College of Natural Sciences

2003    Top Innovation and Finding, Automated Pavement Surface Distress Rating System for Asphaltic and Concrete Pavements，Texas Department of Transportation

1994  Burlington Industrials Award, International Textile and Apparel Association, USA

Invited oral presentations

1.      Xu, B. and Yao, M., Stereovision Body Imaging System, VF Futurewear Summit Conference, Winston-Salem, NC, 3/21/2012.

2.      Xu, B., Targeting Obesity Epidemic Using Portable Body Scanning Technology, Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, Shanghai, China, 5/29/2010.

3.      Xu, B., A 3D Surface Imaging System for Assessing Human Obesity, “Applications of Digital Image Processing XXXII conference, SPIE Symposium on Optical Engineering + Applications, San Diego, CA, 8/5/ 2009. 

4.      German Claros and Bugao Xu, Automated Inspection of Pavement Surface Distress
Transportation Research Board (TRB) 87th Annual Conference, Washington, D.C., 1/13/2008.

5.      Xu, B., Cotton Fiber Image Analysis, Engineered Fiber Selection System Conference, Greenville, SC, 6/5/2007.