Xu, Alexander
College of Computer, Mathematical and Natural Sciences
Institute for Physical Science and Technology
EDUCATION
Ph.D. Stanford University
B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alexander (Alex) Xu is an Assistant Professor of Bioengineering, with affiliations in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics in the Biological Sciences Graduate Program, the Biophysics Program, the Applied Math, Statistics, and Scientific Computing Program in the Mathematics Department, and the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Maryland Baltimore. He received his degrees in Materials Science and Engineering and created nanoscale methods for intracellular delivery with Dr. Nicholas Melosh at Stanford. He was an NIH F32 Postdoctoral fellow with Dr. James Heath at Caltech and the Institute for Systems Biology where he created microfluidic platforms and bioinformatic tools for single cell multi-omics. As an Instructor and NIH KL2 fellow in the lab of Dr. Akil Merchant at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, he developed bioinformatic pipelines to analyze spatial omics data to generate predictive biomarkers and therapy candidates in cancer.