Summary
Xin Xu is a Principal Engineer and Installation Analysis Lead with over 15 years of offshore oil & gas expertise, now based in Houston, Texas. He combines deep naval architecture and floating systems design (SEMI, SPAR, TLP, FPSO) with hands-on installation analysis for pipelay, PLET, riser and umbilical operations. Equally at home in the lab and in code, he holds a PhD in Ocean Engineering and has built time-domain coupled analysis and airgap/slugging FORTRAN solvers alongside Python, VB.NET and VBA automation tools. Xin has led installation engineering at Subsea7 and Worley and developed data-driven floater sizing and FPSO ballast optimization software, reflecting a rare blend of field-proven engineering and tool development. He is known for turning complex hydrodynamic and mooring problems into practical, automated workflows that reduce offshore risk and execution time.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ocean Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Ocean Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese