Rate My Professor Luofeng Huang

Dr. Luofeng Huang serves as Senior Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering - Renewable Energy Systems in the Centre for Energy Decarbonisation and Recovery at Cranfield University. A graduate of University College London with a PhD related to ships and marine structures, he has adapted his knowledge to renewable energy systems in seas. He has been endorsed by Forbes as a 30 under 30 in Europe in the Science & Healthcare category and holds qualifications including Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered Marine Engineer (CMarEng), and Member of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (MIMarEST). As Principal Investigator, he has organized research projects worth over £3 million funded by UKRI, Innovate UK, EPSRC, Royal Society, EU Horizon, British Council, Lloyds Register Foundation, Department for Transport, and various industrial partners, with over £1 million of direct funding allocation to Cranfield University.

Huang's research covers interdisciplinary areas of energies, structures, and fluids, particularly their interactions in renewable energy systems such as floating solar farms, wave/tidal energy devices, and offshore wind turbines. His expertise includes coastal and offshore engineering, experimental modelling (towing/wave tank), computational modelling (CFD), and AI technologies like machine learning, computer vision, and digital twins. He led a team to deliver Indonesia's first-ever ocean-based floating solar farm at a remote island, serves as PI for the Innovate UK Solar2Wave project coordinating over 30 academia-industry members, and collaborates on EPSRC-funded clean maritime research with UK ports including Port of Dover, Shetlands, and Port of Tyne. Additionally, he is PI for digital-twin projects on recycling rare-earth materials: ReCell-Smart Digital Platform for Battery Recycling and ReEarth: Smart Digital Platform for Rare Earth Recycling. Huang has published over 100 peer-reviewed papers and authored the book Ocean Renewable Energy Systems by Springer Nature. Key publications include "Floating solar power loss due to motions induced by ocean waves: an experimental study" (Ocean Engineering, 2024), "Developing reliable floating solar systems on seas: a review" (Ocean Engineering, 2025), "Towards a full-scale CFD guideline for simulating a ship advancing in open water" (Ship Technology Research, 2023), and "COVID-19 transmission inside a small passenger vessel: risks and mitigation" (Ocean Engineering, 2022).