Xiaolin is Associate Professor and Associate Head at the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania. He received his B.Eng and Ph.D. degrees from the Xi'an Jiaotong University, China in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He started his academic career as a Research Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore in 2002. In 2003, he was invited by DAAD, Germany to work as a visiting scientist at the University of Siegen, Germany. In 2005, he joined the School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, University of Western Australia, Australia and worked as Research Associate Professor there. In July 2012, he joined the School of Engineering, University of Tasmania. Xiaolin's research interests include thermodynamics of cooling and power systems, cooling engineering, desalination, utilization of renewable energy, energy conversion and storage. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia. He won the DAAD visiting fellowship by DAAD Germany in 2003 and Ludwig Mond Prize 2005, by the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) of United Kingdom. He received Australia China Young Scientist Exchange Program award in 2009 and Australia Japan Emerging Research Leader Program award in 2016 by the Australia Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE), "Dean's Award" for outstanding research performance by UTAS in 2016. He was named as Field Leader in Thermal Science by the Australian Research Magazine in 2018. He has authored more than 160 international journal and conference papers, and holds five international patents. He has completed many international research projects with a total value over $6 million.