Tian-Bing Xu

Dr. Tian-Bing Xu is an Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Old Dominion University. He received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1999 and his Ph.D. in Materials Sciences and Engineering in 2002 from the Pennsylvania State University. He had been National Institute of Aerospace working on-site of NASA Langley for 16.5 years before he joined ODU in July 2018. He participated in numerous projects on smart materials and devices for NASA missions in his career at NIA/NASA. He was on the 2019 ONR Global Sumer senior faculty fellowship program at NIWC Atlantic and made multiple inventions. Dr. Xu is the author and coauthors of three book chapters, and over 140 technical papers. Dr. Xu is listed as the top 2% worldwide most influence scientists. He led the multidisciplinary team from NASA Langley, NCSU, VT, PolyK, TRS, addressing comprehensive piezoelectric energy harvesting issues. The teams won the 2011, 2015 best energy harvesting awards as well as the 2016 R&D award finalist. He has received 45 awards and recognitions from NASA, NIA, and societies. He delivered 96 presentations, which include 48 keynote/invited talks. He holds 11 awarded U.S. patents (3 licensed by industries), and 15 U.S. pending patent applications, which include energy harvesters, pressure sensors, synthetic jet actuators, cryogenic actuators, plasma actuators, optical communication, seawater batteries, and multifunctional nano-composites. He has also developed 9 smart materials and device characterization methods. In addition to NASA Langley annually distributed research funding, he has also played leadership roles on securing over $13M research grants from DoD, ONR, Airforce, NASA headquarters, NASA Langley, NSF, California State, Virginia State, and industries