Xiaodong WANG

Education: PhD

Major/Department: Water and Environmental Engineering

Email: wangxiaodong@qut.edu.cn

Employment track（工作履历）

2025.01-   present, Professor, School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering,   Qingdao University of Technology

2025.12   – 2026.12, Visiting Faculty Member, Department of Civil Engineering, British   University of Columbia, Canada

2018.11—2024.12,   Associate Professor, School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering,   Qingdao University of Technology

2019.02   – 2025.07, General manager at DOSCON Qingdao Co., Ltd.

2016.07   - 2019.01, Project engineer, DOSCON AS, Oslo, Norway.

Professional Service （学术兼职）

1.   Guest researcher, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, China Academy of   Science

2.   Guest editor of special issue of Processes

3. Early-Career Editor of Water Cycle

Research field（研究领域）

1.   Modeling and control of wastewater treatment and resource recovery processes

2. Digital water surveillance tools and environmental big tata

3. Wastewater biological treatment

Research projects（five representative   projects）

1. 2026   – 2029. General Program of NSFC. "Online Monitoring Network Integrating   Virtual and Real Elements for Wastewater Treatment and the Mechanism of   Anomaly Formation." Grant No. 52570042.

2. 2020-2022,   Developing   an alarming tool for municipal sewer clogging in rural area, Principal   investigator, funded by Ministry of Science and Technology, China

3.   2019-2022, Developing soft sensing models for biological wastewater treatment   process, Principal investigator, funded by National Natural Science Fund of   China

4.   2020-2023, Graduates   for Climate Change adapted water management, funded by EU Erasmus+,

5.   2020-2023, 3D   Water Treatment Process Simulation Software Development/ Principal   Investigator, funded by Beijing OBR Software Ltd

Ten Selected Publications and Conference presentations

Journal publications

（1）Wang, X.*, Huang, M., Chen, S., Bi, X., Wang, L., 2025. Alkalinity enhanced   hydrolysis of primary sludge for carbon source recovery and its impact on   denitrification in wastewater treatment. Journal of Environmental Management   373, 123903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.123903

（2）Yang, Y., Wang, X.*, Wu, Y., Li, F., Maletskyi, Z., Chen, S.,   Tang, M., Song, Z., 2025. Integration of soft sensors and model predictive control for   denitrification at a full-scale wastewater treatment plant. Journal of Water   Process Engineering 72, 107422. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2025.107422

（3）Ding, H., Tang, M., Huang, Q., Yang, P., Liu, Z., Bi, X., Nair,   A., Wang, X.*, 2024. Soft sensor enabled real-time chemical dosing control   systems for wastewater treatment: From hybrid model to full-scale   application. J. Water Process Eng. 63, 105431.   https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.105431

（4）Rong, Y., Wang, X.*, Zhu, M., Chen, W., Maletskyi, Z.,   Ratnaweera, H., Bi, X., 2024. Real-time ozonation monitoring and control in   wastewater tertiary treatment: An ultraviolet-visible monitoring approach. J.   Water Process Eng. 64, 105664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.105664

（5）Wang, X.*, Chen, S., Bi, X., Chen, N., Yang, T., Wang, L.,   Maletskyi, Z., Ratnaweera, H., 2023. Morphological image analysis of biofilm   evolution with quantitative analysis in a moving bed biofilm reactor. Sci.   Total Environ. 856, 159199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159199

（6）Wang, X.*, Kvaal, K.,   Ratnaweera, H., 2019. Explicit and interpretable nonlinear soft sensor models for   influent surveillance at a full-scale wastewater treatment plant. Journal of   Process Control. 77, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2019.03.005

（7）Wang, X.*, Bi, X., Hem, L.J., Ratnaweera, H., 2018. Microbial   community composition of a multi- stage moving bed biofilm reactor and its   interaction with kinetic model parameters estimation. Journal of   Environmental Management. 218, 340–347. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2018.04.015

（8）Wang, X., Bi, X., Liu, C., Ratnaweera, H., 2018. Identifying   critical components causing seasonal variation of activated sludge   settleability and developing early warning tool. Water Science and   Technology. 77, 1689–1697. doi:10.2166/wst.2018.053

（9）Wang, X.*, Kvaal, K.,   Ratnaweera, H., 2017. Characterization of influent wastewater with periodic variation   and snow melting effect in cold climate area. Computers & Chemical   Engineering. 106, 202–211. doi:10.1016/j.compchemeng.2017.06.009

（10）Wang, X.*, Ratnaweera, H., Holm, J.A., Olsbu, V., 2017.   Statistical monitoring and dynamic simulation of a wastewater treatment   plant: A combined approach to achieve model predictive control. Journal of   Environmental Management. 193, 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.01.079

Presentation/report in international conference

(1) Wang, X., 2022.   Sensor network based carbon source dosing control for denitrification at a   full scale wastewater treatment plant, 13th International Water Association   (IWA) Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation. Virtual, October   2022

(2)   Wang, X., 2020. A stepwise machine learning method for managing   uncertainty of WWTPs caused by snow melting in cold climate, European Water   Association (EWA) Conference: Water management in cold climate, Harbin, China

(3) Wang, X., 2019.   Integrating Sensor Network to Enable Online Monitoring of More State   Variables for Wastewater Treatment Processes. IWA Water and Development   Congress & Exhibition(国际水协会发展大会). December 2019, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

(4) Wang, X., 2019.   Integration of sewer wastewater characterisation and wastewater treatment   plant simulation for control purpose in cold climate area. The 6th International   Conference on Environmental Simulation and Pollution Control. November 2019, Beijing,   China.

(5) Wang, X., 2017.   Evaluation of surveillance and control strategies for wastewater treatment   plants based on Life Cycle Assessment. IWA Conference on Sustainable   Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery: Research, Planning, Design and   Operation. November 2017, Chongqing, China.

(6) Wang, X., 2017.   Soft sensor application for real-time monitoring of a Norwegian wastewater   treatment plant. Poster presentation in 12th IWA Specialized Conference on   Instrumentation, Control and Automation, Québec City, Québec, Canada.

(7) Wang, X., 2016.   Systematic study of activated sludge settleability seasonal variation based   on multivariate statistical analysis. European Water Association (EWA)   Conference: Water management in cold climate, Spitsbergen, Norway.