Dingxi is currently a professor and head of the department of fluid machinery at school of Power and Energy, Northwestern Polytechnical University.

He obtained his Bachelor degree and Master degree in engineering at Northwestern Polytechnical University in 2002 and 2005 respectively and his PhD in computational fluid dynamics at University of Durham in 2009.

He worked on turbomachinery aerodynamics and aeroelasticity as a senior engineer from July 2008 to May 2012 and a principal engineer from June 2012 to Dec 2015 at Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery Ltd in the UK.

He joined Northwestern Polytechnical University in Jan 2016. He teaches undergraduate turbomachinery aerodynamics and postgraduate turbomachinery aeroelasticity. His research interest covers turbomachinery aerodynamics and aeroelasticity and related numerical methods development.