XiaoYu Wu

Assistant Professor, Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
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Contact Information

Emailxiaoyu.wu@uwaterloo.ca
Phone: 519-888-4567 x36849
Location: ERC 3022

Assistant Professor | Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

A focus on sustainable energy conversion and chemical production processes! XiaoYu Wu is an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering. He obtained his PhD and was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also obtained his MS and BS degrees in Zhejiang University. He is enthusiastic about sustainability, especially how clean technologies can impact sustainability and how countries can incorporate sustainability in their development.

He has published papers in journals such as Progress in Energy and Combustion Science, the Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, AIChE Journal and ChemSusChem. He serves as the Guest Associate Editor in an open-access journal Frontiers in Energy Research for a theme collection of “Sustainable Hydrogen for Energy, Fuel and Commodity Applications.” 

Selected Publications:

  • A. Wu, J. Yang, B. Xu, X.Y. Wu, et al., Direct ammonia synthesis from the air via gliding arc plasma integrated with single atom electrocatalysis, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, 2021
  • X.Y. Wu, Y. Luo, F. Hess and W. Lipinski, Sustainable Hydrogen for Energy, Fuel and Commodity Applications, Frontiers in Energy Research, 2021 
  • X.Y. Wu, L. Cai, X. Zhu, A.F. Ghoniem and W. Yang, A high‐efficiency novel IGCC‐OTM carbon capture power plant design, Journal of Advanced Manufacturing and Processing, 2(3), 2020