Team
Xiaonan WANG
Adjunct Associate Professor
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Deputy Director Accelerated Materials Development Programme
Xiaonan Wang is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the National University of Singapore (NUS). She received her BEng from Tsinghua University in 2011 and PhD from University of California, Davis in 2015. After working as a postdoctoral researcher at Imperial College London, she joined NUS as an assistant professor in 2017. Her research focuses on the development of intelligent computational methods including multi-scale modelling, optimization, data analytics and machine learning for applications in energy and environmental systems to support smart and sustainable development. She is leading a Smart Systems Engineering research group at NUS of more than 20 team members as PI and also the Deputy Director of the Accelerated Materials Development Programme in Singapore. Her team has built systematic planning platforms for smart city and engineering development that combines model-based and data-driven approaches for overall economic, environmental and social benefits improvements. Moreover, she has led the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning methods for >10x reduction in time for development of new material/process for a new application with an intellectual property portfolio in development. She has also been actively educating the public especially youth through a series of workshops and online channels (viewed by 10,000+ audience) on AI and sustainability. She has published more than 50 peer-reviewed papers, organized and chaired several international conferences, and delivered more than 30 presentations and invited talks at international conferences and universities on five continents. She was recognized as an IChemE Global Awards Young Researcher finalist and selected for Royal Society International Exchanges Award as well several best paper awards at IEEE and Applied Energy Conferences.
- PhD (Chemical Engineering) University of California, Davis, USA, 2015
- MSc (Chemical Engineering) University of California, Davis, USA, 2012
- BSc (Chemical and Industrial Biological Engineering) Tsinghua University, China, 2011
2018 Applied Energy Award: Outstanding Paper for International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE)
2017 IChemE Global Awards 2017 Young Researcher finalist
2016 Nominated for the UC Davis College of Engineering Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation
2015 Graduate Studies Travel Award, University of California
2014 Two Best Presentation in Session Awards at American Control Conference (ACC),
Power Systems/ Fault Detection and Control
2013 Conoco Phillips/ Phillips 66 Fellowship in Energy Research and Development
2012 Graduate Student Researcher Award for Engineering or Computer-related Applications
- Smart city and urban systems development
- Multi-scale systems modelling, automation and optimization
- Energy and process systems engineering
- Life cycle sustainability assessment
- Novel machine learning, AI and IoT technologies applied in Energy, Environment and Sustainability related research.
- Wang, Wei, Yingru Zhao, Chuan Zhang and Xiaonan Wang. “A load-complementarity combined flexible clustering approach for large-scale urban energy-water nexus optimization.” Applied Energy 270 (2020): 115163. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115163
- Li, Jie, Lanjia Pan, Manu Suvarna, Yen Wah Tong, and Xiaonan Wang. “Fuel properties of hydrochar and pyrochar: Prediction and exploration with machine learning.” Applied Energy 269 (2020): 115166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115166
- Li, Yinan, Wentao Yang, Ping He, Chang Chen, and Wang, Xiaonan*. “Design and management of a distributed hybrid energy system through smart contract and blockchain.” Applied Energy 248 (2019): 390-405. (ESI Highly Cited Papers) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.132
- Niclas Bieber, Jen Ho Ker, Xiaonan Wang, Koen H. van Dam, Charalampos Triantafyllidis, Rembrandt H.E.M. Koppelaar, and Nilay Shah. Sustainable planning of the Energy- Water-Food nexus using decision making tools. Energy Policy, 113 (2018): 584-607. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.11.037
- Xiaonan Wang, Ahmet Palazoglu, and Nael H. El-Farra. Operational optimization and demand response of hybrid renewable energy systems. Applied Energy, 143 (2015): 324-335. (ESI Highly Cited Papers) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.004