Jun-Ming Xu (J.-M. Xu)  has become a faculty of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) since 1977 when he was graduated from USTC. He received an M.S. in mathematics from USTC in 1988. He was promoted to an Associate Professor in 1993 and a Professor in 1999, respectively. He was appointed a supervisor of doctoral graduates and took charge of Applied Mathematics in 2000. He gained Outstanding Teacher Awards of Bao Steel  in 2007. He held a visiting position at Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatioue  (LRI)  in Universite de Paris Sud, Paris, 1996, Yale University, The middle Tennessee State University, Texas University at Dallas, 2004.

        Xu's major research interest is combinatorics and graph theory. In recent years, his main research interest is the problems of graph theory in topological structure of interconnection networks. He has published more than 200 research papers and three monographs Graph Theory with Applications (in Chinese, The Press USTC, 1998, the second edition, 2004), Topological Structure and Analysis of Interconnection Networks (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001) and Theory and Application of Graphs (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003). He is currently a fellow of Operations Research Society of China, a member of Chinese Mathematical Society and a fellow of Commission on Combinatorics and Graph Theory, a reviewer for Mathematical Review edited by the American  Mathematical Society, a reviewer for Zentralblatt Math edited by the European Mathematical Society, a member of editorial board for International Journal of Combinatorics edited by Hindawi Publishing Corporation, and a managing editor of  OR Transactions  sponsored by Operation Research Society of China.