Dr. Xiong received his Bachelor degree from the College of Electrical Engineering at Southwest Jiaotong University (China) at 2007. Afterwards, he started joint doctoral study and received PhD degrees from both the Department of Applied Physics in Ghent University (Belgium) at 2012, and the College of Electrical & Electronic Engineering in Huazhong University of Science & Technology (China) at 2013, in the field of plasma discharges. In 2013 he joined the Chongqing University (China) as a researcher supported by the Hundred Talents Program. He is also a research member in the State Key Laboratory of Power Transmission Equipment & System Security and New Technology, Chongqing University. From November 2013 to July 2014, he was a visiting scholar in the Cold Plasma Diagnostics and Application Lab. at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota (Twin Cities Campus), USA. His research interests include atmospheric pressure plasma discharges, advanced optical diagnostics, plasma interactions with liquids and solids, and novel applications of plasma discharges in energy and material science. He has been co-authored more than 60 publications, and since 2015 the total citations of his work have achieved to 1596 with h-idex 22 and i10-idex 36 by GoogleScholar.