Xie Huaqing holds a Doctor’s degree in Engineering, and is a professor and doctoral supervisor. He currently serves as Deputy Secretary of SSPU Party Committee and President of Shanghai Polytechnic University (SSPU). 

He graduated from University of Science and Technology of China with a bachelor's degree,majoring in Engineering Thermophysics (five-year system) and obtained doctor’s degree from Shanghai Institute of Ceramics of Chinese Academy of Sciences, majoring in Materials Science and Engineering. He successively studied and worked at Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Kentucky (US), Institute of Advanced Machines and Design under Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Seoul National University (ROK), and Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering of Kyushu University (Japan). Since working in Shanghai Polytechnic University in 2006, he has served as a professor, Dean (since April 2010), Vice President (since July 2014), and President (since March 2021). He has got funded by the programs such as the first batch of Specially-Appointed Jinqiao Professors of SSPU, Shanghai Pujiang Program, Shanghai Shuguang Scholar Program, the first batch of Specially-Appointed Professors in Shanghai (Oriental Scholar), New Century Outstanding Talents of the Ministry of Education and the first batch of Oriental Scholar Follow-up Program, etc. 

Prof. Xie Huaqing is committed to higher education management and conducts researches on energy saving and new energy materials, and microscale heat transfer. As the project leader, he has successively presided over scientific research projects of National Natural Science Foundation and national 863 Program as well as educational research projects of the Emerging Engineering Education Program of the Ministry of Education and Key Educational Reform Projects in Shanghai. So far, he has published more than 200 papers included by SCI. According to retrieval data, the H index is over 45, and his papers have been quoted by SCI sources for more than 9,000 times. Over 10 of his papers have been selected by ESI as highly cited papers. He has been awarded one second prize and one third prize of Shanghai Award for Natural Science (both ranking the first place), one prize of China University-Industry Cooperation Innovation Achievement (ranking the first place), and one first prize (ranking the first place) of Shanghai Teaching Achievement Award. He has been consecutively listed in Most Cited Chinese Researchers by Elsevier since 2014. In addition, he is the council member of Chinese Society of Engineering Thermophysics, member of Thermophysical Property Committee of Chinese Society for Measurement, council member of Shanghai Society for Advanced Materials, expert of Engineering and Materials Science Department of National Natural Science Foundation of China, etc.