1.Basic information 
Professor of College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University.
B.Ag.Sc. Northwest Agricultural University, 1985
M.Ag.Sc., Northwest Agricultural University,1997
M.Ag.Sc., Göttingen University in Germany,1999
Ph.D., Martin-Luther University in Germany, 2002
2. Research fields
Crop production,
Biostatistics,
Quantitative genetic
3. Teaching courses
Crop production
Experiment design and analysis
Data analysis in computer (Data analysis using SAS)
Analysis in Agricultural Meteorology
4. Academic achievements
In the past, Dr Hu has completed a number of projects, including “Analysis of field trials using mixed linear models with spatial variance-covariance structures”, a project from National Natural Science Foundation of China, “Suitable models assessment for field trials through simulation”, a project from Ministry of Education; “Application of BLUP in line evaluation of crop breeding”, a project from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), “Application of linear mixed models with spatial covariance in agriculture resource assessment”, a project from Northwest Agricultural University, etc. He was awarded as the fifth award of Science and Technology of China in 2003.
More than 40 scientific papers have been published by Dr. Hu in Journals such as “Field Crops Research”, Crop Science”, “The Journal of Statistics in Agriculture and Environments Science ‘Journal of Crop” etc. He has written or co-written 4 books: SAS and Statistic Analysis, Experiment Design and Data Analysis, Computer Technique in Agriculture, Application of SAS in Agriculture Science.
5. Contact Information
Post address: Dr Hu Xi-Yuan, College of Agronomy, Northwest A&F University, No.3, Taicheng road, Yangling, Shaanxi, P. R. China
Zip Code: 712100
Tel: (+86)-029-87082854（Office）
E-mail: xiyuanhu@yahoo.com.cn, huxiyuan@nwsuaf.edu.cn
