Centre for Marine Technology, College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha, China
*Corresponding author’s e-mail: dlxu@hnu.edu.cn
Professor Daolin Xu obtained his PhD degree from the University College London (UCL) in 1996, and specializing in nonlinear dynamics. He worked as a senior research fellow at the Centre for Computational Mechanics and then as a division manager at the Institute of High Performance Computing at the National University of Singapore. In 1999, he joined the Nanyang Technological University Singapore as an Associate Professor at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. In 2009, he joined the Hunan University in China, appointed as a Professor and Director of the Centre for Marine Technology. His present research interest is in Nonlinear Network Dynamics with applications in marine engineering. He has conducted a number of research projects from the National Natural Science Foundation, Naval Department, State Key Laboratory, National Research Programs of “863’ and ’973’, and industrial R&D projects. He has published over 100 academic papers in prestigious journals, received over 2600 citations and his H-index stands at 25. He co-authored a book entitled Line Spectrum Chaotification for Vibration Isolation System of Onboard Machinery. He was awarded the Best Paper Prize in IEEE conference in the United Kingdom. He also serves as a panel member of several expert committees in China, including the National Natural Science Foundation, State Key Laboratories and other professional bodies.