Xiaolan Xu (Senior Member, IEEE) received the B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from the Zhejiang University in China, Hangzhou, China, in 2006, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, in 2008 and 2011, respectively. In 2012, she joined the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and has been a Scientist since 2014. Her research interests include applied electromagnetics, electromagnetic wave propagation, and scattering properties from snow-covered terrain, vegetated land surface, and bare soil. She specialized in the development of forward modeling and retrieval algorithm with applications to Earth remote sensing from space. Dr. Xu was the recipient of the URSI Santimay Basu Award in 2020.