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Obtained a Ph.D. and master's degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Oklahoma State University, United States, I completed multiple research projects in renewable energy system design and software development funded by the US Department of Energy, in cooperation with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I was the principal scientific advisor for a project funded by the Innovation to Commercialisation of University Research (ICURe) Programme of Innovate UK and ICURe Exloite; I participated in developing a spin-out battery company Continuous Power as Chief Scientist. I was a principal investigator or co-investigator for 20+ research projects (about £14 million) sponsored by UK EPSRC, energy companies, etc.
Worked across three continents (North America, Asia, and Europe) with multi-cultural backgrounds, worked at different institutes (consultancy company, university, government), and with various collaborators, I published 70+ scientific journals or conference papers in energy system/material modeling, AI in green energy. I delivered several invited talks, including “AI for Green Energy” at Oxford University Innovation and keynote speeches at the 29th CSCST-SCI Conference. I chaired symposiums or sessions at international conferences such as EcoMat 2024 and the 15th International Conference on Materials Processing and Characterization etc.
I am a theoretical scientist and chartered engineer with expertise in energy system and material modeling, sustainable energy storage, and AI for green energy.
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- Fault diagnosis of variable refrigerant flow system based on the deep reinforcement learning method, Cao, R., Chen, H., Liu, C., Xing, L. 15 May 2026, In: Energy and Buildings
- Feasibility study and assessment of a solar-powered hydrogen electrolyser-fuel cell integrated system for building electrification, Lei, H., Thomas, J., Ge, Y., Shivaprasad, K., Curnick, O., Roy, S., Xing, L. 13 Sep 2026, In: Energy Conversion and Management: X
- Medium-deep ground source heat pump systems: potential and optimization control for grid interaction, Li, J., Xu, W., Tian, C., Sun, Z., Li, J., Zhang, G., Wang, L., Xing, L., Lu, F., Deng, J., Cai, W., Li, W., Dong, J. 1 Mar 2026, In: Energy and Buildings
- Pressure Fluctuations in Dead-End PEMFCs: Current Density Dynamics Mechanism, Quantitative Response, and Asymmetric Pressure Optimization, Li, Q., Pei, H., Sun, L., Xing, L., Chang, H., Tu, Z. 1 Jun 2026, In: Energy Technology
- Real-Time Flooding Diagnosis for Dead-Ended PEMFCs Under Dynamic Loads Using Current Density Distribution, Zhao, Y., Pei, H., Xing, L. Aug 2026, In: Energy Technology
- A Lightweight Transformer-LSTM Method for Long-Sequence Battery State-of-Health Estimation, Yin, Y., Liu, Y., Xing, L., Jiang, J., Wu, H. 1 Sep 2025, 2025 Energy Conversion Congress & Expo Europe (ECCE Europe), Piscataway, United States, IEEE
- Development of a domain adversarial fault diagnosis model for information poor variable refrigerant flow systems based on transfer learning, Liu, C., Xu, Y., Chen, H., Shi, J., He, Y., Xing, L. 15 May 2025, In: Journal of Building Engineering
- Experimental study on current density distribution characteristics in a novel oxygen recirculation system of dead-ended proton exchange membrane fuel cell, Liu, Z., Pei, H., Sun, L., Wang, B., Xing, L. 2 Jan 2025, In: International Journal of Green Energy
- Integrating Green Hydrogen into Building-Distributed Multi-Energy Systems with Water Recirculation, Lei, H., Thomas, J., Curnick, O., Shivaprasad, K., Roy, S., Xing, L. 1 Mar 2025, In: Applications in Energy and Combustion Science
- Investigation of the hazards of local reverse polarization in fuel cells: Prediction based on electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, Liu, H., Pei, H., Xing, L., Chang, H., Tu, Z. 15 Oct 2025, In: Energy Conversion and Management
- Joseph Thomas Development of eco-designed membranes for high temperature water electrolysis using atomistic simulation. Start Date: 01/10/2022
- Joseph Thomas Novel eco-designed proton exchange membrane materials for green hydrogen production Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025
- Emmanouil Mavroudis AI-Enabled Materials Discovery for Green Hydrogen Production Start Date: 01/10/2026
- Mechanical Engineering PhD October 18 2014
- Mechanical Engineering MSc December 08 2010
- English BA July 06 2008
- EnvironmentalEngineering BSc June 20 2008
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