化工系副教授、特别研究员、博士生导师、国家高层次人才计划入选者。创建了智慧系统工程研究中心，兼任环太平洋大学联盟项目的联合负责人。围绕碳中和和未来智能实验室等新兴交叉学科，开展新能源、低碳技术和系统及人工智能应用的研究，从多尺度系统集成的角度提高能源和资源系统的综合效率和经济性，助力双碳目标。发表100余篇学术论文，参与撰写3部专著，一专利已被多家媒体报道和公司转让，同时作为顾问与政府和工业界紧密合作。获得AIChE新加坡最佳青年首席研究员奖（2021），环太平洋大学联盟可持续发展论坛最佳青年研究员奖（2020），应用能源杂志最佳编委奖（2020），Applied Energy高引论文奖（top 1%）（2020），英国皇家协会国际交流奖（2018），国际化学工程师学会全球奖(IChemE)青年研究员决赛入围名单（2017）等奖项。担任十本国际期刊副主编和编委，50余期刊审稿人，多个会议主席。在能源、系统工程、化学化工、电气自动化等领域的大型国际会议上作40余次特邀报告（如2019年亚太化学工程大会APCChE特邀主旨报告，2020年国际材料学大会MRS邀请报告，2021年Nature废弃物管理和可持续发展未来会议主旨报告）。其团队在人工智能加速材料开发应用，多能源系统综合利用，循环经济等领域有一系列高被引论文和算法软件产出。
2020年~至今Results in Control and Optimization (Elsevier)/Frontiers in Blockchain副主编;
2020年~至今Renewable and Sustainable Energy Transition; Environmental Research Infrastructure and Sustainability; Digital Chemical Engineering编委;
1. Li, Jiali, Mykola Telychko, Jun Yin, Yixin Zhu, ..., Jiong Lu andXiaonan Wang*. "Machine Vision Automated Chiral Molecule Detection and Classification in Molecular Imaging."Journal of the American Chemical Society(2021).https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jacs.1c03091
2. Yuan, Xiangzhou, Manu Suvarna, Sean Low, Pavani Dulanja Dissanayake, Ki Bong Lee, Jie Li,Xiaonan Wang*, and Yong Sik Ok*. "Applied Machine Learning for Prediction of CO2 Adsorption on Biomass Waste-Derived Porous Carbons."Environmental Science & Technology(2021).https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.1c01849
3. Suvarna, Manu, Ken Shaun Yap, Wentao Yang, Jun Li, Yen Ting Ng, andXiaonan Wang*. "Cyber-physical production systems for data-driven, decentralized, and secure manufacturing—A perspective."Engineering(2021).https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eng.2021.04.021
4. Li, Yinan, Song Lan, Morten Ryberg, Javier Pérez-Ramírez, andXiaonan Wang*. "A quantitative roadmap for China towards carbon neutrality in 2060 using methanol and ammonia as energy carriers."iScience24, no. 6 (2021): 102513.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.102513
5. Tian, Hailin,Xiaonan Wang*, Ee Yang Lim, Jonathan TE Lee, Alvin WL Ee, Jingxin Zhang, and Yen Wah Tong*. "Life cycle assessment of food waste to energy and resources: Centralized and decentralized anaerobic digestion with different downstream biogas utilization."Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews150 (2021): 111489.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2021.111489
6. Jing, Rui,Xiaonan Wang*, Yingru Zhao*, Yue Zhou, Jianzhong Wu, and Jianyi Lin*. "Planning urban energy systems adapting to extreme weather."Advances in Applied Energy(2021): 100053.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2021.100053
7. Li, Jie, Lanjia Pan, Manu Suvarna, andXiaonan Wang*. "Machine learning aided supercritical water gasification for H2-rich syngas production with process optimization and catalyst screening."Chemical Engineering Journal(2021): 131285.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.131285
8. Mekki-Berrada, Flore, Ren, Zekun, Huang, Tan, ... andXiaonan Wang*. "Two-step machine learning enables optimized nanoparticle synthesis."npj Computational Materials(2021): 7, 55 (2021).https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00520-w
9. Liu, Zuming, Shukun Wang, Mei Qi Lim, Markus Kraft, andXiaonan Wang*. "Game theory-based renewable multi-energy system design and subsidy strategy optimization."Advances in Applied Energy(2021): 100024.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adapen.2021.100024
10. Li, Lanyu, andXiaonan Wang*. "Design and operation of hybrid renewable energy systems: current status and future perspectives."Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering31 (2021): 100669.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2021.100669
11. Jiali Li, Kaizhuo Lim, Haitao Yang, Zekun Ren, Shreyaa Raghavan, Po-Yen Chen, Tonio Buonassisi*, andXiaonan Wang*. "AI applications through the whole life cycle of material discovery."Matter3 (2020): 1-40.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matt.2020.06.011
12. Liu, Zuming, Mei Qi Lim, Markus Kraft, andXiaonan Wang*. "Simultaneous design and operation optimization of renewable combined cooling heating and power systems."AIChE Journal(2020): e17039.https://doi.org/10.1002/aic.17039(invited for AIChE Future Issue)
13. Oliver Inderwildi*, Chuan Zhang,Xiaonan Wang, and Markus Kraft. "The Impact of Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems on the Decarbonization of Energy."Energy & Environmental Science13, no. 3 (2020): 744-771.https://doi.org/10.1039/C9EE01919G
14. Li, Yinan, Wentao Yang, Ping He, Chang Chen, andXiaonan Wang*. "Design and management of a distributed hybrid energy system through smart contract and blockchain."Applied Energy248 (2019): 390-405.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.04.132
15. Li, Lanyu, Zhiyi Yao, Siming You, Chi-Hwa Wang, Clive Chong, andXiaonan Wang*. "Optimal design of negative emission hybrid renewable energy systems with biochar production."Applied Energy243 (2019): 233-249.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2019.03.183
16. Sana Noor, Wentao Yang, Miao Guo, Koen H. van Dam, andXiaonan Wang*. “Energy Demand Side Management within micro-grid networks enhanced by blockchain”,Applied Energy228 (2018): 1385-1398.(ESIhighly cited paper)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.07.012
17.Xiaonan Wang*,Miao Guo,Rembrandt H.E.M. Koppelaar, Koen H. van Dam, Charalampos Triantafyllidis, and Nilay Shah. "A nexus approach for sustainable urban Energy-Water-Waste systems planning and operation",Environmental science & technology52, 5(2018): 3257–3266.https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.est.7b04659
18.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 Policy113 (2018): 584-607.(ESIhighly cited paper) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2017.11.037
19. Xiaonan Wang*, Lanyu Li, Ahmet Palazoglu, Nael H. El-Farra, and Nilay Shah. "Optimization and control of offshore wind systems with energy storage." Energy Conversion and Management 173 (2018): 426-437.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2018.07.079
20.Xiaonan Wang, Ahmet Palazoglu, and Nael H. El-Farra*. "Operational optimization and demand response of hybrid renewable energy systems."Applied Energy143 (2015): 324-335.(ESIhighly cited paper)https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.01.004
