Dr Lu Xing

Associate Professor

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

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.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

I am a theoretical scientist and chartered engineer with expertise in energy system and material modeling, sustainable energy storage, and AI for green energy.

Key Publications

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
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
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
Modelling Analysis of Virtual Power Plant to Enhance Energy Trading in Electricity Market Considering Green Certificate Trading Mechanism, Han, Z., Zhang, Y., Xing, L., Zou, J. 7 Apr 2025, 2025 IEEE International Conference on Power and Integrated Energy Systems (ICPIES), Piscataway, NJ, IEEE
Optimizing PEM fuel cells: Strategies to address local reverse polarity issue, Liu, H., Pei, H., Cai, S., Tu, Z., Xing, L. 25 Mar 2025, In: International Journal of Hydrogen Energy

PGR Supervision

Joseph Thomas Start Date: 01/10/2022

PGR Supervision

Joseph Thomas Novel eco-designed proton exchange membrane materials for green hydrogen production 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

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