Xiaolin Pan is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Northeastern University, and executive deputy director of the Key Laboratory for Nonferrous Metal Resource Recycling (Shenyang). His primary research focuses on the theory of alumina production and the ecological utilization of aluminum-bearing resources. He undertook over 20 national and ministry projects, and over 40 enterprise cooperation projects; published over 120 papers, including over 40 SCI papers and over 30 EI papers as first or corresponding authors; applied for over 50 invention patents; published two national planned textbooks; gained 6 ministry level science and technology awards.