Min Xia

Associate Professor

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia (2017)
M. Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China (2012)
B.Eng., Industrial Engineering, Southeast University (2009)


Dr. Min Xia joined Western University in 2023 as an Associate Professor and the Director of Machine Intelligence Laboratory (MIN Lab) in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 2017. From 2019-2023, he was an Assistant Professor and was then promoted to Associate Professor at Lancaster University in the UK. His research interests include scientific machine learning, intelligent machine condition monitoring, advanced manufacturing process monitoring and optimization, industrial data mining, and smart clean energy systems. Dr. Xia has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, including top journals in mechatronics and industrial informatics. He has been ranked in the World's Top 2% Scientists (by Stanford University) since 2020, based on the impact of published works. He has led 17 research projects in Canada, the UK, and Japan, with total funding of $20 million (more than $3 million as PI).

 

Professional Organizations

  • Fellow - Higher Education Academy (UK)
  • Senior Member - IEEE

 

Editorial:

  • Editor-in-Chief: Mechatronic Systems and Control
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
  • Associate Editor: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
  • Associate Editor: Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
  • Associate Editor: IET Intelligent Collaborative Manufacturing
  • Guest Editor: Reliability Engineering and System Safety, Pattern Recognition Letters, Measurement Science and Technology, Advances in Mechanical Engineering, Shock and Vibration, Journal of Sensors, Sensors, IEEE Access, Mobile Networks and Applications, Discovery AI, etc.

 

Honors & Awards:

  • 2025, Wolfe-Western Fellowship (for five years), Western University
  • 2024, Outstanding Young Engineer Award, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
  • 2024, IEEE TIM Andy Chi Best Paper Award, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society
  • 2020 – present, World's Top 2% Scientists, Stanford University
  • 2021, Outstanding Reviewer, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
  • 2019, Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program Fellowship, Mitacs and JSPS
  • 2015 – 2017, Mitacs Acceleration Fellowship, Mitacs
  • 2017, Graduate Student Academic Achievement Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC
  • 2016, Continuing Graduate Student Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC
  • 2015, Student Leadership Award, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UBC