GE Xiaocheng received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China; and a PhD degree in computer science, under the supervision of Dr. Fiona Polack and Prof. Richard Paige, at University of York, UK.

From 2004 to 2007, he was employed in the project eXGrid: Agile Development of High-Integrity Grid Middleware at Department of Computer Science. Since 2007, he continues his role of research associate in project Large Scale Comples IT System , where his work focuses on agile development and enterprise systems.

Before he started his career in academia, he worked in several companies as software engineers from 1996 to 2002, where he became an expert on computer-telephony integration (CTI) systems.

• Agile development practices
• Enterprise architecture and its adoption
• Formal/informal analysis of business processes
• Model-based failure analysis