Welcome to my personal website!
- I will be joining the faculty at the University of Southern California (USC), as an Assistant Professor of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, starting in January 2025. I will be recruiting graduate students and postdocs for Spring and Fall 2025. Prospective candidates may email me (rui.ray.xu@usc.edu) with your CV and research interests.
- My USC research group webpage is live now! Check here: Xu SACE (Sustainable Aerospace and Clean Energy) Research Group at USC.
- My research mission is to advance sustainable and high-speed aerospace propulsion and enable clean energy transitions. My core research is to tackle two challenges in the aerospace frontier: aerospace sustainability and high-speed aerospace vehicle design. I am particularly interested in understainding sustainable aviation fuel combustion, emission, and their synthetic production pathways, along with the underlying reacting flow physics in both current aerospace propulsion devices and future carbon-neutral, high-speed vehicles. Beyond the core research mission, I am also interested in applying fast quantum chemistry for materials computation to enable future sustainable energy materials design.
- My research approach centers around multiscale reacting flow modeling, integrating computations such as fast quantum chemistry computation, chemical kinetic modeling, and turbulence-resolved flow simulations, with the aid of machine learning and data-driven methods. For details, please visit my research page.
Professional Education
- Postdoc, Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory, Theoretical Chemistry (2024)
- Ph.D., Stanford University, Mechanical Engineering (2019)
- M.S., Northwestern University, Mechanical Engineering (2014)
- B.S., Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Mechanical Engineering (2012)
Recent News
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- 09/11/24: I attended North American Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Conference and Expo in Saint Paul, MN.
- 08/02/24: I attended Emerging Frontiers in Computational Chemistry and Materials: A Symposium in Celebration of Emily Carter's Achievements in Pacific Grove, CA.
- 05/20/24: I accepted an offer to join the faculty of University of Southern California (USC), as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering.
- 05/05/24: I attended 2024 West Coast Theoretical Chemistry (WCTC) meeting at UC Merced and presented a poster.
- 04/22/24: I attended the BASF CARA 10th Anniversary Science Symposium and Spring Review at UC Berkeley and presented a lightning talk.
- 03/19/24: I presented at at ACS Spring 2024 in New Orleans, LA, as the winner of the Wiley Computers in Chemistry Outstanding Postdoc Award.