Biography & Scholarship
Dr. Min Xian is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Utah State University, Logan, Utah, in 2017, and his M.S. degree in Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems from Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 2011. Dr. Xian is now the director of the Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics (MIDA) lab, a research-oriented, collaborative, and synergistic core that impels interdisciplinary research. Dr. Xian is an affiliate Professor and Doctorial Supervisor of the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) program at the University of Idaho, an affiliate of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES), and a participating faculty member of the Institute for Modeling Collaboration and Innovation (IMCI). He is leading projects on AI-enhanced cancer detection (NIH) and material characterization and development (DOE). His research interests include artificial intelligence, pattern recognition, machine learning, deep neural networks, adversarial learning, biomedical data analytics, material informatics, and digital image understanding. Dr. Xian is a guest editor at Healthcare, session chair for the AAAI conference, and is an active reviewer for many prestigious international journals, e.g., Pattern recognition, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging, Medical Image Analysis, Medical Physics, Scientific Reports, Neurocomputing, and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine.