Professor XU, Assistant Professor of the School of Design at Southern University of Science and Technology, is a scholar of sound studies and sociologist of science and technology. Her main research fields include Sound Studies, STS (Science and Technology Studies), Cultural Studies and Gender Studies. Dr.XU was a Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at SUSTech. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy of Science and Technology from Tsinghua University, China and was in a joint Ph.D. program in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University, U.S.A. She obtained a MA in Cultural and Creative Industries at King's College London, UK, and got a BA in Recording Arts (Sound Director) and a BA in Journalism in Communication University of China. XU has been actively participating in and organizing international academic activities in the areas of sound studies and STS. She has been working on social and historical studies of keyboard sound, STS of sound technology, sociology and philosophy of noise and silence, sound and gender, and sound, body and medicine. XU devotes herself to delving the new and fast developing interdisciplinary field of Sound Studies. It is her academic ambition to do fascinating and tasteful research. In addition to academic research, she loves the writing of non-academic texts with paying attention to mass culture and social reality.