Biography

Dr. Xun Huang received his PhD in Aerodynamics & Flight Mechanics from the University of Southampton in 2006. He remained at Southampton as a research fellow and then a lecturer until 2009. He joined Peking University in 2009 as a member of the State Key Laboratory of Turbulence, and acted as the associate head in the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics through 2014. He was appointed as associate professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in 2016 and served as the director of the two MSc programs until 2017. Dr. Huang returned to Peking University in 2018 and was appointed as professor at Peking University and adjunct professor at HKUST in 2020. His research interests include acoustics, flow control, and flight control. He has received Newton advanced fellowship (Royal Society 2015) and the CEAS most cited paper award (2023). Since 2025, he has been serving as the head of the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at Peking University.