Department of Communication Science and Engineering
Position：
Professional Title：19
Duties：School Vice Dean, Vice Director of Key Lab for Information Science of EMWs
Email：fengxu@fudan.edu.cn
Visiting Address：2005 Songhu Rd
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Home Page：https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=i-N1K9oAAAAJ&hl=en
Research Interests
His current research interests include deep learning and data science as applied to remote sensing, fast electromagnetic modeling for complicated target and environments, SAR information retrieval and intelligent imagery intepretation.
Academic Positions
Associate Editor of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (2014-2021)
Topical Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing (2021-)
Editorial Committee Member of IEEE Spectrum (Chinese Version), Science in China F, Information Series, Journal of Electronics and Information Technology, Journal of Radars, Chinese Journal of Radio Science
Guest Editor of Science of China Information Series “Deep learning in remote sensing image processing”
Guest Editor of IEEE GRSL special stream “Future technologies for remote sensing with synthetic aperture radar”
Guest Editor of IEEE GRSL special stream “Remote Sensing with Intelligent Processing”
Guest Editor of IEEE JSTARS special issue “Gaofen Challenge 2020”
Guest Editor of IEEE JSTARS special issue “CAADAR >>>”
Guest Editor of IEEE JSTARS special issue “SAR/InSAR...”
Guest Editor of International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation special issue "deep learning for environmental sensing"
Voting Member of IEEE GRSS AdCom (2020-2025)
Director of Global Activities of IEEE GRSS (2025-)
Founding Chair of IEEE GRSS Shanghai Chapter (recognized with Chapter Excellence Award)
Senior Member of IEEE, GRSS, APS
Member of American Metrology Society (AMS)
Full Member of Sigma Xi
Member of IEEE GRSS Special Award Committee
IEEE GRSS Liaison to China, Chair of GRSS China 2030 Committee
Editorial Champion of IEEE Remote Sensing Code Library (RSCL)
Tutorial Lecturer of IGARSS 2018 at Valencia and IGARSS 2019 Yokohoma “Earth Observation Big Data Intelligence: theory and practice of deep learning and big data mining”
Speaker of IGARSS Summer School 2016 at Beijing “InSAR/PolSAR Principles and Applications”
PI of JAXA/ALOS2 Research: “Monitoring land cover changes using high resolution polarimetric interferometric SAR images”
Co-I of DLR/TerraSAR-X Research: “Tomography and SAR Image Processing for Urban Mapping: Case Studies of Shanghai and Qingdao of China”
Member of the ST-VAL group of GHRSST
Co-Chair of CISS 2018, China-International SAR Symposium
Technical Program Co-Chair, IEEE International Wireless Symposium 2020 Shanghai
TPC Chair of RSIP 2017 International Workshop on Remote Sensing with Intelligent Processing
TPC Member for IEEE RadarCon 2020; APSAR2015, Singapore; IMWS-AMP 2015, Suzhou China; IGARSS 2016, Beijing.
Senior Program Committee (SPC) member for IJCAI / 2020 The 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Session chair for URSI-GASS 2020; IGARSS 2011, Vancouver BC; URSI-GASS 2014 Beijing China; APSAR2015, Singapore; IGARSS 2015, Milan; IGARSS 2016, Beijing; IGARSS 2018, Valencia; IGARSS 2020, Online.
Keynote Speaker of IEEE Signal Processing Symposium (SPSympo), 2021, Warsaw
Keynote Speaker of CISS 2018, China-International SAR Symposium
Keynote Speaker of the 12th China National Radio Propagation Symposium
Chair of the 2nd Young Scientist Forum of Journal of Radars
Invited Talk by IGARSS 2018; IGARSS 2017; APSAR 2015, Singapore; PIERS 2016, Shanghai; EMTS 2016, Espoo Finland; IEEE ICMMT 2020, Shanghai; IGARSS 2021, online;
Awards
2021, Best Reviewer for IEEE Trans. Geoscience Remote Sensing
2021, Best paper of CIE
2020, Excellency for Technological Achievement, Huawei Tech Co.
2020, Excellent Editorial of Science of China Information Series
2020, Highly cited paper of Journal of Radars
2019, Champion of Tianzi Cup on AI challenge for remote sensing image interpretation
2019, Science and Technology Innovation Leader, National Ten-Thousand Talent Program
2018, Innovation Leaders Talent Program, China Ministry of Science and Technology
2018, Excellent Young Scholar, Natural Science Foundation of China
2017, Chair of Chapter Excellence Award, IEEE GRSS
2015, Exceptional Service Award NOAA-CSU Cooperative Institute for Research in Atmosphere
2014, International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Young Scientist Award
2014, Early Career Award from IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society
2012, Certificate of Recognition from NASA-NOAA Joint Polarorbit Satellite System Program
2011, Second class National Natural Science Award of China
2010, First class ‘Natural Science Award’, Ministry of Education of China
2008, Awarded ‘Hildegard Maier Research Fellowship’ of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
2007, SUMMA graduate fellowship for PhD students in Advanced Electromagnetic Area. (one recipient per year worldwide, http://www.ece.unm.edu/summa/gradfellow.htm)
2006, Nominated and ranked among the best three for ‘Transaction Prize Paper’ of IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Society
2006, IGARSS Travel Grant & One of the 10 finalists of IGARSS’06 student paper competition
2004, Conference Prize Paper of the 10th Youth Scholar Conference of CIE (China Institute of Electronics)
Education and Working Experience
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2003, B.E. with honor in Information Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China
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2008, Ph.D. with honor in Electronic Engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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2008-2010, Postdoctoral fellow with the NOAA Center for Satellite Application and Research (STAR), Camp Springs, MD
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2010-2012, Research Scientist, Intelligent Automation Inc. Rockville MD & NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD
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2012-2013, Senior Research Scientist, Intelligent Automation Inc. Rockville MD
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2013-present, Professor, school of information science and technology, vice director of the MoE Key Lab for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves.
Teaching
Artificial Intelligence (Graduate)
Machine Learning (Undergraduate)
Digitial Circiuts (Undergraduate)
Publications
[1]. Lu, S; Guo, Q; Xu, Feng; Phase-dependent plasticity: A brain-inspired unsupervised learning algorithm for deep neural networks, Neurocomputing, 132707, 2026 [2]. X Pu, J Liu, Q Chen, H Shen, F Xu; PanoEarth: Scaling Open Vocabulary Panoptic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2026 [3]. R Li, J Wei, H Lin, F Xu; Learning Terrain Scattering Models from Massive Multi-Source Earth Observation Data, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2025 [4]. X Zhang, F Xu; Parameter Identification for Inverse Scattering Problem of Electrically Large Curved Surfaces, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation 73 (5), 3242-3256,=-142025 [5]. Hu, Fengming; Xu, Feng; Wang, Robert; Qiu, Xiaolan; Ding, Chibiao; Jin, Yaqiu; Conceptual Study and Performance Analysis of Tandem Multi-Antenna Spaceborne SAR Interferometry, Journal of Remote Sensing, 4, , 2024 [6]. Lei, Zhengxin; Xu, Feng; Wei, Jiangtao; Cai, Feng; Wang, Feng; Jin, Ya-Qiu; , SAR-NeRF: Neural radiance fields for synthetic aperture radar multi-view representation, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2024 [7]. Wei, Jiangtao; Luomei, Yixiang; Zhang, Xu; Xu, Feng; , Learning surface scattering parameters from SAR images using differentiable ray tracing, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2024 [8]. Jia, Hecheng; Pu, Xinyang; Liu, Qiaoyu; Wang, Haipeng; Xu, Feng; , A fast progressive ship detection method for very large full-scene SAR images, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2024 [9]. Zhang, Zhengquan; Xu, Feng; , An overview of the free energy principle and related research, Neural Computation, 36, 5, 2024 [10]. Liu, Zhuoyang; Zhang, Haiyang; Huang, Tianyao; Xu, Feng; Eldar, Yonina C; , Hybrid RIS-assisted MIMO dual-function radar-communication system, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, , , 2024 [11]. Feng, XU; Yaqiu, JIN; , Microwave Vision and Intelligent Perception of Radar Imagery, 雷达学报, 13, 2, 2024 [12]. Xu, Han-Yang; Xu, Feng; Jin, Ya-Qiu; , Optimal Sensing Principle of Synthetic Aperture Radar, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2023 [13]. Guo, Qian; Xu, Huilin; Xu, Feng; , Causal adversarial autoencoder for disentangled SAR image representation and few-shot target recognition, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2023 [14]. Fu, Shilei; Jia, Hecheng; Pu, Xinyang; Xu, Feng; , Extension of differentiable SAR renderer for ground target reconstruction from multi-view images and shadows, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2023 [15]. Bai, Xinyu; Pu, Xinyang; Xu, Feng; , Conditional Diffusion for SAR to Optical Image Translation, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, , , 2023 [16]. Zhang, Xu; Xu, Feng; Jin, Ya-Qiu; , A unified bidirectional scattering distribution function for convex quadric surface, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, , , 2023 [17]. Zhang, Xu; Xu, Feng; Yang, Ying; Xing, Mengdao; Jin, Ya-Qiu; , A primitive scatterer dictionary for semantic representation of radar target images, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, , , 2023 [18]. Y. Luomei, Segmental Aperture Imaging Algorithm for Multi-rotor UAV-borne MiniSAR, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2022 [19]. X. Zhang et al., “Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function of Electrically-large Distributed Rectangular Slots”, IEEE Trans. Antenna Propagation, 2023 [21]. F. Hu, F. Wang, H. Yu, F. Xu, Asymptotic 3-D Phase Unwrapping for Very Sparse Airborne Array InSAR Images, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2022 [22]. S. Fu, F. Xu, Differentiable SAR Renderer and Image-based Target Reconstruction, IEEE Trans. Image Processing, 2022 [24]. Z. Xia and F. Xu, Time-Space Dimension Reduction of Millimeter-Wave Radar Point Clouds for Smart-Home Hand-Gesture Recognition, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 [25]. S. Li, Z. Liu, S. Fu, Y. Wang, F. Xu, Intelligent Beamforming via Physics-Inspired Neural Networks on Programmable Metasurface, IEEE Trans. Antenna Propagation, 2022 [26]. X. Zhang, F. Xu, Coherent Spatially Varying Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Function of Rough Surface, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2022 [27]. F. Xue and F. Xu, Allometric Vegetation Modeling and SAR Image Simulation for Polarimetry and Interferometry, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2022 [28]. Q. Song, F. Xu, X. Zhu, Y.-Q. Jin, Learning to Generate SAR Images with Adversarial Autoencoder, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021 [29]. F. Hu, et al., System Concepts and Potential Applications of a Tri-Beam Spaceborne SAR Mission, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2022 [30]. X. Z. Shi, et al. Object-level Semantic Segmentation on the High-Resolution Gaofen-3 FUSAR-Map Dataset, IEEE JSTARS, 2021 [31]. H. Y. Xu, F. Xu and Y.Q. Jin, Variable Resolution SAR Imaging Mode with the Principle of Maximum Mutual Information, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2021 [32]. S. Li, Feng Xu, X. Wan, T. J. Cui, Y.-Q. Jin, “Programmable Metasurface Based on Substrate-Integrated Waveguide for Compact Dynamic-Pattern Antenna,” IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, 2020 [33]. S. Fu, Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, “Reciprocal Translation between SAR and Optical Remote Sensing Images with Cascaded-Residual Adversarial Networks”, Science China Information Sciences, 2021 [34]. Q. Guo, H. Wang, Feng Xu, “Scattering Enhanced Attention Pyramid Network for Aircraft Detection in SAR Images,” IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 2020. [35]. Zhaoyang Xia, Yixiang Luomei, Chenglong Zhou, and Feng Xu, “Multi-dimensional Feature Representation and Learning for Robust Hand-Gesture Recognition on Commercial Millimeter-wave Radar”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2020. [36]. D-X Yue, F. Xu A. Frery and Y.-Q. Jin, SAR Image Statistical Modeling Part I: Single-Pixel Statistical Modeling, IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Magazine, 2020 [37]. D-X Yue, F. Xu A. Frery and Y.-Q. Jin, SAR Image Statistical Modeling Part II: Spatial Correlation Models and Simulation, IEEE Geoscience Remote Sensing Magazine, 2020 [38]. X. Hou et al. FUSAR-Ship: Building a high-resolution SAR-AIS matchup dataset of Gaofen-3 for ship detection and recognition, Science of China Information Science, 2020 [39]. D.-X. Yue F. Xu A. Frery and Y.-Q. Jin, A Generalized Gaussian Coherent Scatterer Model for Correlated SAR Texture “, IEEE Trans Geosci. Remote Sens., 2020 [40]. W. Ao, Y. Fu, X. Hou, F. Xu, “Needles in a haystack: tracking city-scale moving vehicles from continuously moving satellite”, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2019 [41]. X. Wang and F. Xu, “A PolinSAR Inversion Error Model on Polarimetric System Parameters for Forest Height Mapping”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 2019 [42]. Feng Xu, Q. Song and Y.Q. Jin, "Polarimetric SAR Image Factorization", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. , 55(9), pp. 5026-5041, 2017. [43]. Feng Xu and P. Wang, “Analytic Modeling of Rough Surface SAR Images under Small Perturbation Approximation”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 55(7), pp. 3694-3707, 2017. [44]. Z. Zhang, H. Wang, Feng Xu and Y.Q. Jin, "Complex-Valued Convolutional Neural Network and Its Application in Polarimetric SAR Image Classification", IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens. , 55(12), pp. 7177 -7188, 2017 [45]. Feng Xu and Alexander Ignatov, “Error Characterization in iQuam SSTs Using Triple Collocations with Satellite Measurements”, Geophys. Res. Letters, 43(20), 2016 [46]. Feng Xu, Y.Q. Jin and A. Moreira, “A Preliminary Study on SAR Advanced Information Retrieval and Scene Reconstruction”, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Letters, 13(10), pp. 1443- 1447, 2016. [47]. Feng Xu, Y. Li and Y.Q. Jin, “Polarimetric–Anisotropic Decomposition and Anisotropic Entropies of High-Resolution SAR Images”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 54(9), pp. 5467-5482 , 2016. [48]. H. Su, Feng Xu, S. Lu and Y.Q. Jin, “Iterative ADMM for Inverse FE-BI Problem: A Potential Solution to Radio Tomography of Asteroids”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 9(7), pp. 2891-2900, 2016. [49]. S. Chen, H. Wang, Feng Xu and Y.Q. Jin, “Target Classification Using the Deep Convolutional Networks for SAR Images”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 54(8), pp.4806-4817, 2016. [50]. Feng Xu et al., “A backscattering model of rainfall over rough sea surface for synthetic aperture radar,” IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., 53(6), pp.3042-3054, 2015 [51]. Feng Xu et al., “Impact of Cross-Polarization Isolation on Polarimetric Target Decomposition and Target Detection”, Radio Science, 50(4), pp 327-338, 2015 [52]. Feng Xu and A. Ignatov, “In situ SST quality monitor (iQuam),” J. Atmos. Oceanic. Tech., vol. 31, no. 1, 2014 [53]. Feng Xu and M. Deshpande, "Iterative Nonlinear Tikhonov Algorithm With Constraints for Electromagnetic Tomography," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol.5, no.3, pp.707,716, June 2012 doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2012.2193117 [54]. Feng Xu and A. Ignatov, “Evaluation of in situ sea surface temperatures for use in the calibration and validation of satellite retrievals,” J. Geophys. Res., 115, C09022, doi:10.1029/2010JC006129, 2010. |
[55]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Raw signal processing of stripmap bistatic synthetic aperture radar," IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation, vol. 3, no.3, pp. 233-244, Jun 2009 |
[56]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Bidirectional Analytic Ray Tracing for Fast Computation of Composite Scattering from An Electric-Large Target over Randomly Rough Surface", IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, 2009, 57(5): 1-11 |
[57]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Calibration and Validation of a Set of Multi-Aspect Airborne Polarimetric Pi-SAR Data", International Journal of Remote Sensing, 2008, 29(23): 6801-6810 |
[58]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Imaging simulation of bistatic synthetic aperture radar and its polarimetric analysis," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.46, no.8 pp.2233-2248, Aug 2008. |
[59]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Automatic reconstruction of building objects from multi-aspect meter-resolution SAR images," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.45, no.7 pp.2336-2353, July 2007. |
[60]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Imaging simulation of polarimetric SAR for a comprehensive terrain scene using the mapping and projection algorithm," IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.44, no.11 pp.3219- 3234, Nov. 2006 |
[61]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Multiparameter inversion of a layer of vegetation canopy over rough surface from the system response function based on the mueller matrix solution of pulse echoes," IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.44, no.7 pp. 2003- 2015, July 2006 |
[62]. Feng Xu and Y.-Q. Jin, "Deorientation theory of polarimetric scattering targets and application to terrain surface classification," IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol.43, no.10 pp. 2351- 2364, Oct. 2005 |
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Biography
Feng Xu received the B.E. with honor in Information Engineering from Southeast University, Nanjing, China and the Ph.D. with honor in Electronic Engineering from Fudan University, Shanghai, China, in 2003 and 2008, respectively. From 2008 to 2010, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the NOAA Center for Satellite Application and Research (STAR), Camp Springs, MD. From 2010 to 2013, he was with at Intelligent Automation Inc. Rockville MD, while partly working for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD as a research scientist. He returned to Fudan University in June 2013, where he currently serves as a professor and the vice dean of the school of information science and technology and the vice director of the MoE Key Lab for Information Science of Electromagnetic Waves.
He has published more than 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals, co-authored 3 books, and 2 patents, among many conference papers. Among other honors, he was awarded the second-class National Nature Science Award of China in 2011. He was the 2014 recipient of the Early Career Award of IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society and the 2007 recipient of the SUMMA graduate fellowship in the advanced electromagnetics area. He currently serves as a topical associate editor for IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing and a voting member of IEEE GRSS AdCom. He is the founding chair of IEEE GRSS Shanghai Chapter
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