Li Xiaohong

For the athlete, see Li Xiaohong (athlete).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Li.

Li Xiaohong
李晓红
President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Incumbent
Assumed office June 2018
Preceded by	Zhou Ji
President of Wuhan University
In office December 2010 – October 2016
Preceded by	Gu Hailiang
Succeeded by	Dou Xiankang
President of Chongqing University
In office January 2003 – December 2010
Preceded by	Wu Zhongfu
Succeeded by	Lin Jianhua
Personal details
Born	June 1959 (age 65) Hechuan, Chongqing, China
Political party	Chinese Communist Party
Alma mater	Chongqing University
Scientific career
Fields	Mining engineering
Institutions	Chongqing University Wuhan University

Li Xiaohong (simplified Chinese: 李晓红; traditional Chinese: 李曉紅; pinyin: Lǐ Xiǎohóng; born June 1959) is a Chinese engineer and educator, and the current President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He served as the president of Chongqing University from 2003 to 2010, and was appointed the president of Wuhan University in 2010. In 2011, he was elected as a member of the CAE. As a researcher, Li's main interests are in the field of mining engineering. He made contributions to the development of water jet cutters in China, and established new equations about jet parameters and cutting effection, so the use of abrasive jet could be improved.

Life and career

Li was born into a rural family; he once served as a commune cadre in 1975. In 1978, he entered the Mining Engineering Department, Chongqing University, and was appointed the party secretary of the department after he graduated in 1982. From June 1989, he trained at UC Berkeley for 3 years. In 1993, he received his doctor's degree in engineering from Chongqing University. Then he served as a visiting scholar at UQ from March to August 1996. Li later served as the dean of College of Resources and Environmental Engineering, Chongqing University, from 1994 to 1998. He served as the president of Chongqing University from 2003 to 2010, and the president of Wuhan University from 2010 to 2016.

Research

Li began to develop Water Jet TBM Tunneling Machine when trained at UC Berkeley. There, he spent two years to make the machine capable of crushing stones which are extremely hard. He continued this research after he returned to Chongqing University. He finally developed a method of rock crushing, containing eroding coal rock with water jet, crack extension, washing away the debris, and cooling the cutting-tools.

Li and his colleagues studied the mechanism of abrasive mixing in self-oscillation flow, and measured its effects on main parameters, so they could develop the equations about jet parameters and cutting effection. Consequently, they could infer the relation between characteristics of wear particles and effect of cavitation in pulsed abrasive water jet. Based on this, they proposed a design standard of pulsed abrasive water jet nozzles.