Benlian Xu, P.h.D

Professor

School of Mechanical Engineering

Email: xu_benlian@cslg.edu.cn

Diplomat

Jul.1997, B.S., Changsha University of Science & Technology, Changsha, China.

2003, M.S., Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, China.

Jul.2006, Ph. D. Nanjing University of Science & Technology, Nanjing, China.

Research Activities

2006-2008: Dept. of Information & Control Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology.

2009-2010: Visiting scholar, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Melbourne.

2012-2013: Visiting Professor, School of Electrical Electronic & Computer Engineering, The University of Western Australia.

2018-2019: Visiting Fellow, Research School of Engineering, The Australian National University.

2009-2018: School of Electrical and Automatic Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology

2019- : School of Mechanical Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology.

Selected Publications

1. Benlian Xu*, Jian Shi, Mingli Lu, Jinliang Cong, Ling Wang and Brett Nener, An Automated Cell Tracking Approach with Multi-Bernoulli Filtering and Ant Colony Labor Division, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. doi: 10.1109/TCBB.2019.2954502 (IF: 2.896)

2. Benlian Xu*, Mingli Lu, Jinliang Cong and Brett Nener, An Ant Colony Inspired Multi-Bernoulli Filter for Cell Tracking in Time-Lapse Microscopy Sequences, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. doi: 10.1109/JBHI.2019.2949976 (IF: 4.217)

3. Benlian Xu*, Mingli Lu, Peiyi Zhu, Multi-Task Ant System for Multi-Object Parameter Estimate and Its Application in Cell Tracking, Applied Soft Computing, 2015, 35, 449-469. (IF: 4.873)

4. Benlian Xu*, Mingli Lu, An Ant-Based Stochastic Searching Behavior Parameter Estimate Algorithm for Multiple Cells Tracking, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2014, 30, 155-167. (IF: 3.526)

5. Benlian Xu*, Mingli Lu, Peiyi Zhu, Jian Shi, An Accurate Multi-Cell Parameter Estimate Algorithm with Heuristically Restrictive Ant System, Signal Processing, 2014, 101, 104-120. (IF: 4.068)

6. 2017-2020, Program Director, Research Projects ‘Research on Modeling and Regulating of Dual Random Finite Ant Colonies Based Muti-Cell Parameter Estimate Approach ’, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Granted No.61673075).

7. 2013-2016, Program Director, Research Projects ‘Research on Automatic Muti-Cell Tracking Based on Ant Intelligent Searching Behavior and Its Application’, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Granted No.61273312).

8. 2011-2013, Program Director, Research Projects ‘Random Finite Sets and its Application to leukocyte Motion Analysis’, Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu (Granted No.BK2010261).

9. 2009-2011, Program Director, Research Projects ‘A Study on Data Association Techniques Based on Intelligent Hybrid Behaviors of Ant Colony’, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Granted No.60804068).

10. As a referee of several international journals, such as IEEE Trans. on Evolutionary Computation, Automatica, Signal Processing, Neurocomputing, Information Sciences, Applied Soft Computing, The EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing，Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation,. etc..