About

Twenty years on the front line of manufacturing, with one through-line: embedding AI into the business value chain to create real business value.

What sets my work apart are two “fusions”:

Fusion of technology and business. I understand both AI and the business, and my core strength is architecture design — modeling the business and the AI in the same systems language, grounded in cybernetics and complex-systems theory, so that “where and how AI creates value” becomes a designable, engineerable question rather than a matter of luck.

Fusion of industry and academia. Twenty years of hands-on practice with a deep feel for manufacturers’ real pain points and organizational realities, combined with continuous study of complexity science, cognitive science, AI, and applied mathematics (visiting scholar, Santa Fe Institute) — using first-principles understanding to guide how industry should use AI.

The methodology is distilled in my monograph Industrial Digital Transformation: Systematic Methods and Agile Practices (China Machine Press, 2025), which answers one core question: how to make AI create business value.

Career

• Shanghai Huiyan Intelligent Technology — Founder (2024–): consultant in industrial AI; Chief Digitalisation Expert Advisor at Ningbo Huaxiang (top-100 auto-parts group), Chief Digitalisation Advisor at Feymer Technology; AI Faculty at Hundun Academy
• ATL — Chief Engineer, Intelligent Manufacturing (2021–2024): group digital-transformation blueprint; cell-level dynamic process control; ~0.8 TWh cumulative energy saved; million-cell-per-day scheduling cut from a week to hours
• Sany Heavy Industry — Director, Industrial Software Institute (2019–2020): digitalization practice behind the WEF’s first “Lighthouse Factory” in global heavy industry (2020)
• Santa Fe Institute (USA) / Aalborg University (Denmark) — Visiting Scholar (2018–2019)
• Envision Energy — Deputy Director, Electrical R&D Centre (2009–2017): 1.5–4 MW converters from zero to 3,000+ units in production; solved a world-class weak-grid control problem
• GE Global Research — Lead Research Engineer (2007–2009): control algorithms for GE’s first industrial centralized PV inverter

Education: Xi’an Jiaotong University

• Ph.D. in Power Electronics & Electric Drive (2007);
• M.Sc. in Control Theory & Control Engineering (2004);
• dual B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration (2001).

Standards & community

Voting expert, IEC TC8/SC8A (power-system stability, power quality, renewable grid integration); long-running public lecture series on complexity science and industrial digital transformation (2019–).