A list of Highly Cited Scholar in China was released in the website of Elsevier, the biggest publication group for scientific literature in the world. Professor Yong Xu was in the list. Professor Yong Xu works in the field of Pattern Recognition,

Biometrics, Image processing, Video Analysis, and Machine Learning. He has published more than 100 papers, over 60 of them can be indexed by SCI. He has also written some academic monographs and owns several invention patents. Master and doctoral students who are under his supervision now have also gained good research results in their academic fields.