Ming Xu is the Chair Professor of Carbon Neutrality and Associate Dean for Research at the School of Environment at Tsinghua University. His research focuses on environmental systems engineering, life cycle assessment, and environmental artificial intelligence.
Ming Xu is the Chair Professor of Carbon Neutrality, Associate Dean for Research, and Founding Director of the Center of Artificial Intelligence for Ecology and Environment at the School of Environment at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was a Professor at the School for Environment and Sustainability and a Professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
His research focuses on environmental systems engineering, life cycle assessment, and environmental artificial intelligence. He received the Robert A. Laudise Medal from the International Society for Industrial Ecology in 2015, the US National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016, the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from the American Society of Civil Engineers in 2021, and the Amazon Research Award in2024. He was appointed as the President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology for 2023-2024.
Currently he is the Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier’s flagship journal in environmental management, Resources, Conservation & Recycling. He has been leading the Tian Gong Initiative (https://www.tiangong.earth) to develop the Tian Gong life cycle data infrastructure and a series of large language model applications in environment and sustainability (Tian Gong AI).
He joined the Panel in May 2025 for a 1-year engagement period, before being considered for full membership by May 2026 (as per IRP standard procedures).