WSGESD-2025

Ying Xin received a B.S. from Tianjin University in 1983 and a PhD from University of Arkansas in 1991 respectively. From 1991 to 1999, he worked at Midwest Superconductivity Inc., USA as a senior researcher and lead scientist. From 2001 to 2014, he worked at Innopower Superconductor Cable, Co., Beijing, China as the General Manager. Since 2014, he has been a professor at the School of Electrical, Automation, and Information Engineering of Tianjin University. He has worked on new superconductors, practical HTS materials and power applications of superconductivity since 1988. His current research interests are superconducting fault current limiter, superconducting power cable, superconducting energy storage, and HTS maglev. Lately, he has extensively been working on new superconducting energy storage that has the potential to revolutionize the regenerative braking technology and to develop more efficient and sustainable urban rail transportation systems. He has published more than 200 scientific papers and two books in the fields of superconductivity, thermoelectric power, and oxide giant magneto-resistance materials. He is the inventor of more than 40 patents mainly in the field of applied superconductivity. He has served as the secretary of CIGRE D1 WG38. He is a senior member of IEEE and IEC TC90 WGs 5 and 13. He is also a member of several Chinese national technical committees in the fields of superconductivity, electrical engineering, and materials.