Xueguang Shao

Extracting quantitative information from temperature dependent near infrared spectra (Abstract)

Xueguang Shao is a professor of analytical chemistry in Nankai University, the director of the Tianjin key laboratory of bio-sensing molecular recognition. He got The Ministry of Education Award for Young Teachers in 2002, Natural Science Foundation Outstanding Youth Fund in 2003, the special allowances of the state council in 2012, and the Lu Wanzhen Award of CCNIRS (China Council of Near Infrared Spectroscopy) in 2018.

The main research area of Prof. Shao is chemometrics and its application in analytical chemistry. Since the 90s of the last century, he has engaged in the studies of near infrared spectroscopy. He developed a series of chemometric methods for NIR spectral analysis, including the methods for spectral pre-processing, outlier detection, variable selection, and the methods for quantitative and discrimination analysis. Great efforts were made for selection of the informative variables from the NIR spectra. Aiming at the problem of low sensitivity of NIR spectroscopy, works for the micro-analysis were conducted based on the combination of chemometric and experimental strategies. In recent years, temperature dependent NIR spectroscopy was proposed and new applications were explored. Besides the theoretical studies, Prof. Shao also developed new techniques for practical applications of NIR spectroscopy, such as the technique for monitoring the industrial production and the method for fast identification of medicines.