Biography

Dr. Jinyang Xu, FIAAM, MSCS, is an Associate Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was ranked as the “Highly Cited Chinese Researchers” by Elsevier (2024) and was listed as the World’s Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for four consecutive years (2021-2024). He received his M.Sc. (2013) in Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and obtained his Ph.D. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. His research interests focus on composites machining, numerical modeling, micro/nano cutting, and surface texturing. He has published over 60 articles in highly-ranked JCR-referenced journals as a first/corresponding author, co-authored more than 80 peer-reviewed papers, and edited 3 monographs, 5 book chapters, 10 int. conf. proceedings & 11 special issues, being cited over 4500 times with an h-index of 39 according to Google Scholar Citations. He has delivered more than 20 Keynote Lectures at various international conferences and has applied over 20 national patents.

He is the Founding Editor of the International Journal of Product Sound Quality (IJPSQ) and holds the Editor-in-Chief positions of Journal of Coating Science and Technology (JCST), and International Journal of Precision Technology (IJPTech). He serves as an Associate Editor for esteemed journals such as Proc. IMechE Part E – J. Process. Mech. Eng. (SCIE/EI), Frontiers in Materials (SCIE/EI), The Journal of Engineering (ESCI/EI), and Int. J. Manuf. Mater. & Mech. Eng. (ESCI/SCOPUS). Moreover, he is on the Editorial Board of several SCI journals, including Green Materials, Journal of Superhard Materials, Coatings, Lubricants, etc. He holds over 800 peer reviews and over 100 editor records for various international journals including IJMTM, JMPT, IJAMT, IJMS, COST, WEAR, etc., verified by the Web of Science (WOS) (https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/rid/G-8731-2011).

He is the General Chair of the 2nd and 3rd International Conference on New Materials, Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (NMMVE2023/2024). He has been invited as Keynote/Invited Speakers, Section Chairs, and TPC members for a number of international conference series (e.g., APMAS, DSMIE, ICMEM, ICMTM, ICMSOA, ICEM, ICMD, ICMAT, NMMVE, etc.) with themes in materials science and manufacturing processes. He has presided and participated in more than 20 national and provincial projects including the NSFC grants, National Science and Technology Major Project, National Key Research and Development Program, and Intergovernmental Scientific and Technological Cooperation Project, as well as a number of industrial projects. For his notable research in the field of Materials Processing & Manufacturing, he was honored with the prestigious IAAM Scientist Medal of the year 2020, and received the Best Paper Awards at the NMMVE2024 (July 19-21, 2024, Dalian, China), CMAMT2023 (August 2-4, 2023, Shenyang, China), the NMMVE2023 (June 2-4, 2023, Guiyang, China), the NMMVE2022 (March 18-20, 2022, Guilin, China), the CJUMP2017 (November 19-21, 2017, Shanghai, China) and the ISGMA2015 (June 23-27, 2015, Qingdao, China) conferences.

He has been the recipient of several awards, including the First Prize of the 5th National Blended Teaching Design Innovation Competition for Universities (2023), the First Prize of the Blended Teaching Design Innovation Competition of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2023), Wiley 2020-2021 Top Cited Author Award (Wiley, 2022), the Outstanding Contribution in Reviewing Award (Elsevier, 2016 & 2018), the nominee of the Pierre Bézier Doctoral Dissertation Award (2016), the CSC Government Scholarship (2013), the Excellent Master Thesis Award of Shanghai Municipality (2013), the Excellent Graduate Award of Shanghai Municipality (2013), and the National Graduate Scholarship of China (2012).

Dr. Xu's research interests concern the machining of fibrous composites utilizing both experimental and numerical methodologies, and hybrid fabrication of functional surfaces for dental dentures. The specific research fields include but are not limited to:
1. Multi-scale analysis of machining fibrous composites in relation to subsurface imperfections using both experimental and numerical methodologies;
2. Investigations addressing the mechanisms of heat transfer and issues of heat-induced damage for fibrous composites subjected to mechanical machining;
3. Constitutive modeling of composite materials introducing the thermo-mechanical coupling effects of machining;
4. Studies concerning the micro-machining of functional topological surfaces for dentures and the development of specialized tools and fabrication processes.