研究方向
1.工程機械設計理論
2.複雜機電設備零部件形狀最佳化設計理論及方法
3.風力機葉片翼型關鍵技術研究
主要研究
曾留學英國一年，現承擔全英文本科課程教學，負責國家自然基金項目一項，作為主研人參與國家項目及企業橫向課題多項，主要研究複雜機電產品零部件形狀最佳化設計理論及方法，如動壓軸承形狀最佳化設計、風力機翼型葉片形狀及結構最佳化設計等，工程機械裝備相關的機構及結構最佳化設計與相關技術研究，如：液壓挖掘機工作裝置、隨車起重裝置、塔機吊裝機構和混泥土泵車輸送臂等。
發表論文
已在國內外重要學術期刊或國際重要學術會議上發表論文20餘篇，其中被SCI、EI、ISTP索引10餘篇。已發表的10篇代表性論文如下：
[1]Xiaoping Pang, Ning Qin, Rob S. Dwyer-Joyce, Jin Chen, Jiaxu Wang，A general profile parameterization of hydrodynamic journal bearings for efficient shape optimization[J]，Tribology transaction, 2010, 53(1): 117-126. SCI ISI:000273631000006
[2]龐曉平，陳進，王家序. 採用通用膜厚方程的動壓徑向軸承形狀最佳化[J]. 西安交通大學學報.2009, 43(1): 57-61.EI20090811917412
[3]Xiaoping Pang, Jin Chen. Shape optimization for hydrodynamic bearings based on general film thickness equation. J. Adv. Manuf. Syst, 2008, 7(2): 275-278. EI20084711717999
[4]Xiaoping Pang, Jin chen. Parametric and controllable shape model of the water lubricated rubber journal bearing[J]. Advanced Materials Research, 2010，358-361 EI 20120814795846，WOS:000309483300253
[5]Xiaopig Pang, Jin chen. Eperimental investigation of dydrodynamic jiurnal bearing optimized shapes based on the general film thikness equation.[C], Fourth internaltional conference on experimental mechanics shingapore, Singapore, 2009:75221-75229，EI20112414049039，wos000285572800051
[6]Jin Chen, Quan Wang, Xiaoping Pang, et al. Improvement of airfoil design using smooth curvature technique [J]. Renewable Energy, 2013; 51:426-435. SCI 000312922000051
[7]龐曉平、牛坤、魏思遠. 用CFD方法研究具有通用膜厚方程徑向軸承的動壓特性， 中國機械工程[J], 21期, pp 2521-2524, 2012.
[8]Pang X.， Chen J.， Hussain S.H.， Numeric and experimental study of generalized geometrical design of ahydrodynamic journal bearing based on the general film thickness equation[J]， Journal of Mechanical Scienceand Technology, 26(10), pp 3149-3158, 2012.， SCIWOS:000311673700018. EI20124915755927
[9]Gedion Habtay Gebremicheal, Chen Jin, Muhammad Farooq Zaman, Xiaoping Pang. Design and finite element analysis of a hydraulic excavator boom. Proceedings of the 2012 international conference on advances in materials processing technology (ICAEMT2012), tk5211, EI20124515656213
[10]Pang X.、 Chen J.， Multi-objective shape optimization of hydrodynamic journal bearings using non-dorminated sorting genetic algorithm II[J]， Xinan Jiaotong Daxue Xuebao/journal of Southwest Jiaotong University, 47(4), pp 639-645, 2012.， EI20124915755927
