Xiaonan Wang

Education

• 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

Awards and Honours

• 2019 Applied Energy Award: Outstanding Paper for International Conference on Applied Energy (ICAE 2018)
• 2018 Royal Society International Exchanges Award
  
• 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

Research Interests

• Smart city and urban systems development
• Multi-scale systems modelling, automation and optimization
• Novel machine learning, AI and IoT technologies applied in Energy, Environment and Sustainability related research
• Energy and process systems engineering
• Life cycle sustainability assessment