Hao Xu is from China, educated in applied physics and micro-/solid-state electronics respectively for his B.Sc and Master study. He then moved to Sweden for his doctoral study and obtained PhD degree in biological physics from KTH in Sep 2016, specializing in quantum dots' application in bioimaging. From Sep 2017- April 2021, Hao worked as a researcher in Emma Lundberg's group working at automated microscopy and computational image analysis. Currently, he is working at 10x Genomics.