Researcher, Center for Ecological Environment Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Mainly engaged in the development and demonstration of efficient industrial wastewater treatment technology. He has undertaken 1 special project of strategic international science and technology innovation cooperation of national key R&D projects, 2 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 national 863 subprojects, 1 China National Natural Science Fund, and 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperation projects. There were 28 patent applications and 15 patents granted. In recent years, more than 50 articles have been published, including more than 20 SCI papers. He has achieved significant research results in petroleum development, fine chemicals, bio-pharmaceuticals, coal chemical industry and industrial park wastewater treatment and engineering conversion. He won the second prize of Science and Technology Promotion of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015 and the China Petroleum and Chemical Federation in 2016. Invented the second prize.

Industrial Wastewater Treatment Technology Research

1.Ying-Xin Gao,,Ran Ding,Xing Chen,,Zhao-Bo Gong,Yu Zhang. Ultrasonic washing for oily sludge treatment in pilot scale. Ultrasonics 90 (2018) 1–4
2.Shilong He, Xicheng Tan, Xin Hua and Yingxin Gao. Effect of ultrasound on oil recovery from crude oil containing sludge. ENVIRONMENTALTECHNOLOGY,2018
3.Dev Raj Josh, Yu Zhang*, Zhe Tian, Yingxin Gao*, Min Yang. Performance and microbial community composition in a long-term sequential anaerobic-aerobic bioreactor operation treating coking wastewater. Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2016,100(18), 8191–8202
4.Qin Wang, Bo Zhang, Muhua Wang, Jiang Wu, Yuyou Li, YingxinGao*,WeichengLi*. Synthetic lepidocrocite for phosphorous removal from reclaimed water:optimization using convex optimization method and successive adsorption in ?xed bed column. International Biodeterioration & Biodegradation, 2015, 98, 81-88

Undertaken 1 special project of strategic international science and technology innovation cooperation of national key R&D projects, 2 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2 national 863 subprojects, 1 China National Natural Science Fund, and 2 Chinese Academy of Sciences cooperation projects.

The second prize of Science and Technology Promotion of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015
The China Petroleum and Chemical Federation in 2016. Invented the second prize.