1978年~1982年：湖南大学电气学院，工业自动化专业，本科；

1993年~1996年：中南大学，自动控制专业，硕士；

1996年~1999年：中南大学信息物理工程学院，博士。

2013年—至今：长沙理工大学能源与动力工程学院，教授,硕士导师。 2009—至今,湖南工程学院，客座教授。 2011- 2013, Director, Shalie Academy of Technology, UK. 2009 - date, UHI Academic Leader, visiting professor, Energy Studies, Environmental Research Institute, UHI, UK. 2005-2009, Innovation Fellow/Research Associate, CREST, Faculty of Engineering, University of Loughborough. 2008 – 2011, Visiting Professor, North China Electric Power University, China. 2001- 2005, Senior Research Associate, School of Engineering, University of Durham, UK. 1999- 2001, Royal Society Research Fellow, School of Engineering, University of Leicester, UK. 1999, Senior Visiting Scholar of Chinese Ministry of Education, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University. 1996- 1999, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Changsha University of Science & Technology, China. 1985- 1996, Lecturer, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Changsha University, China. 1982-1985, Teaching Assistant, Taiyuan Heavy Machinery Institute, China.

近三年在长沙理工大学主持和参与了10多个国家，部委和省市级项目，如中国外专局高端外国专家项目，国际自然科学基金项目，海南省科技厅重点项目，长沙市科技局境外重点项目，中国工程院新疆能源主导型沙漠治理项目等

1.Simon J. Watson,Beth J. Xiang, Wenxian X. Yang, Peter J. Tavner, and C. Crabtree,Condition Monitoring of the Power Output of Wind Turbine Generators Using Wavelets,Energy Conversion, IEEE Transactions,Volume:25 ,Issue: 3,Sept. 2010,Pages715 - 721

2.Jianping Xiang, Wind Energy in China,the ninth annual edition of Renewable Energy, 2009,

3.Haitao Guo, Simon Watson, Peter Tavner,Jiangping Xiang. Reliability analysis for wind turbines with incomplete failure data collected,Reliability Engineering and System Safety,Volume 94, Issue 6, June 2009, Pages 1057-1063

4.Edwin Wiggelinkhuizen, Theo Verbruggen, Henk Braam, Luc Rademakers，Jianping Xiang, Simon Watson，Assessment of Health Monitoring Techniques for Offshore Wind Farms- Results of the CONMOW project，ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering,August 2008 -- Volume 130, Issue 3, 031004(9 pages).

5.Wiggelinkhuizen, E.J., Verbruggen, T., Braam, H.,Xiang, J.andWatson, S.J., et al ''CONMOW: Condition Monitoring for Offshore Wind Farms'', ECN, May2007, pp 1-10, ISBN 15233081.

6. Shek, J.K.H., Macpherson, D.E., Mueller, M.A. andXiang, J., ''Reaction Force Control of a Linear Electrical Generator for Direct Drive Wave Energy Conversion'', Renewable Power Generation IET, 11, March2007, pp 17-24, ISBN 1752 1416.

7.Xiang, J., Mueller, M.A. and Cheng, D., ''Parameter Estimation of an Electro-Mechanical System Using Narrow-Band Data'', Dynamics of Continuous Discrete and Impulsive Systems, 14(1), January2007, pp. 15-25, ISSN 1492-8760.

8. Tavner, P.,Xiang, J.and Spinato, F., ''Reliability Analysis for Wind Turbines'', Wind Energy, 10(1), January2007, pp. 1-18, ISSN 0309 524X.

9.Xiang, J., Cheng, D., Schlindwein, F.S. and Jones, N.B., ''On the Adequacy of Identified Cole-Cole Models'', Computers & Geosciences, 29(5), April2003, pp. 647-654, ISSN 0098 3004.

10.Xiang, J.,Jones, N.B., Cheng, D. and Schlindwein, F.S., ''A New Method to Discriminate Between a Vallid IP Response andEM Coupling Effects'', Geophysical Prospecting, 50(6), November2002, pp. 565-576, ISSN 0016 8025.

11.Xiang, J.,Jones, N.B., Cheng, D. and Schlindwein, F.S., ''Direct Inversion of the Apparent Complex-Resistivity Spectrum'', Geophysics, 66(5), September2001, pp. 1399-1404, ISSN 0016 8033.

12.Xiang J. P.,Teng Runqiu (1997). The Results of Application of OMNI- PLUS System.Journal of Central South University of Technology,pp.68-73. (In Chinese).

13. Yang X. R.,Jianping Xiang, Lin Yuhua (1997). Automatic Detecting System of Roll Shape Using CCD sensors in Plate Rolling.Trans. Nonferrous Met. Soc. China,Vol.7, No.pp.156-159.

14. Yang X. R., Lian Yingzhan,Jianping Xiang, Ling Yuhua (1996). CCD High Precision and Speed Graphic Data Sampling System and Its Application.Journal of Central South University ofTechnology,4，pp.218-221,(In Chinese).

15.Xiang J. P.,Yang Xinrong (1996). Method of Real-time Detection and Analysis on Roll,Hunan Annals of Mathematics,16（3）pp.65-66. (In Chinese).