Dr. Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical, Industrial and Aerospace Engineering at Concordia University. He received his Ph.D. from McGill University and then worked at Siemens as a Mitacs Postdoctoral Fellow. Before joining Concordia, he developed 3D-printable Meta-materials at the Imperial College London. Dr. Xu’s research focus on developing lightweight structures and mechanical metamaterials, multi-material additive manufacturing, and multi-scale mechanics of materials.