Position:
Core Staff
Associate Professor
Email:
mingxu@umich.edu
Office Location:
3508 Dana Building, 440 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1041
Degrees:
Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University, '09
M.S., Environmental Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, '06
B.S., Environmental Engineering, Tsinghua University, '03
Research Interests:
Dr. Xu develops and applies interdisciplinary system-based analytical tools to understand complex sustainability issues. This includes industrial ecology approaches (e.g., environmental input-output analysis, life cycle analysis, material flow analysis) and complex systems modeling methods (e.g., agent-based modeling, complex network analysis). Current focus of research includes "big data" mining and visualization, environmental implications of emerging bioenergy and clean vehicle technologies, and environmental impacts of international trade.
Projects:
- 2011 SG: Research Roadmap for Urban Sustainability
- Advancing the Science of Infrastructure Ecology by Exploring and Explaining Universal Regularities of Urban Sustainability Indicators
- AGCI Energy Research Internship
- Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: The Moveable Nexus: Design-led urban food, water and energy management innovation in new boundary conditions of change
- CAREER: Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database
- Changes in Energy Use and Water Stress Caused by the Emergence of the Cold Chain
- Climate Change on Global Food System: Strategy to Feed 9 Billion People
- Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database Development
- Decoupling of Economic Growth and Environmental Pressure in China
- Developing a Spatially-Explicit Agent-Based Life Cycle Analysis Framework for Improving the Environmental Sustainability of Bioenergy Systems
- Integrated Energy-Economy-Environment (3E) Modeling for Clean Vehicle Development in China
- Livable Communities through Sustainable Transportation: Integrated Assessment of Infrastructure Greening within Detroit for Improved Sustainable Transportation, Water Quality and Health
- M-CUBED 2.0: Uncovering the Food-Energy-Water Nexus for Urban Sustainability
- M-Cubed Diamond: Defining Innovative Sustainable Solutions for Film-Based Packages
- M-CUBED: Influence of global trade on the human health impacts of particulate matter
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Building the Business Case for Sustainable Agriculture in Asia
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Carbon Sources, Sinks and Offsets in Global Forest Investments
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Defining Next Generation Supply Chain Sustainability
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Environmental Trade-Offs in Commodity Production
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Innovations for LEAP GI: Green Infrastructure Analysis, Design and Application in Detroit’s Lower East Side
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Pursuing Sustainability with UMHS' Patient Food & Nutrition Services: Aligning Sustainable Practices with Healthcare Delivery
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Stone Paper LCA
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Valuing Natural Capital & Assessing Waste Recovery: A Study of Amcor's Flexible Packaging
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Water for All: Sustainable Solutions for Reducing and Utilizing Sarvajal's Reverse Osmosis Brine in Northwestern India
- MASTER'S PROJECT: Water Sensitive Urban Design and Ecological Landscape Design in Hebei, China
- U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center for Clean Vehicles (CERC-CVC)
- U.S.-China: Integrated Systems Modeling of Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus for Urban Sustainability
- Water Scarcity Risk for the Global Trade Network
Publications:
- A Dual Strategy for Controlling Energy Consumption and Air Pollution in China’s Metropolis of Beijing
- A Quasi-Input-Output model to improve the estimation of emission factors for purchased electricity from interconnected grids
- A Review on Energy, Environmental, and Sustainability Implications of Connected and Automated Vehicles
- Agent-Based Life Cycle Assessment for Switchgrass-Based Bioenergy Systems
- An Open Access Environmentally Extended Input-Output Database for China
- An Optimization Model for Regional Micro-Grid System Management Based on Hybrid Inexact Stochastic-Fuzzy Chance-Constrained Programming
- Assessing Clean Vehicle Systems Under Constraints of Freshwater Resource
- Assessing Land-Use Impacts by Clean Vehicle Systems
- Assessing the Environmental Benefits of Ride Sharing in Cities
- Betweenness-Based Method to Identify Critical Transmission Sectors for Supply Chain Environmental Pressure Mitigation
- Beyond Life Cycle Analysis: Using an Agent-Based Approach to Model the Emerging Bio-Energy Industry
- Big Data and Industrial Ecology
- China’s 2020 carbon intensity target: Consistency, implementations, and policy implications
- China’s 2020 Clean Energy Target: Consistency, Pathways and Policy Implications
- CO2 Emissions Embodied in China's Exports from 2002 to 2008: A Structural Decomposition Analysis
- CO2 emissions embodied in interprovincial electricity transmissions in China
- Complexity in Industrial Ecology: Models, Analysis, and Actions
- Considerable environmental impact of the rapid development of China's express delivery industry
- Consumption-based human health impacts of primary PM2.5: The hidden burden of international trade
- Decoupling Analysis and Socioeconomic Drivers of Environmental Pressure in China
- Dependence of Wind Energy on Electric Utility in the US
- Deriving hazardous material flow networks: a case study of lead in China
- Developing a Science of Infrastructure Ecology for Sustainable Urban Systems
- Developing the Chinese Environmentally Extended Input-Output (CEEIO) Database
- Development and application of an energy use and CO2 emissions reduction evaluation model for China’s online car hailing services
- Emerging challenges and opportunities for the food-energy-water nexus in urban systems
- Energy and Water Interdependence, and Their Implications for Urban Areas
- Environmental Benefits of Robotaxi Fleet
- Estimating Missing Unit Process Data in Life Cycle Assessment Using a Similarity-based Approach
- Final production-based emissions of regions in China
- Forecast Modelling via Variations in Binary Image-Encoded Information Exploited by Deep Learning Neural Networks
- Global Drivers of Russian Timber Harvest
- Global Electricity Trade Network: Structures and Implications
- Greenhouse gas emission factors of purchased electricity from interconnected grids
- Greenhouse Gas Implications of Fleet Electrification Based on Big Data-Informed Individual Travel Patterns
- Impact of Emerging Clean Vehicle System on Water Stress
- Income-based greenhouse gas emissions of nations
- Infrastructure Ecology: A Conceptual Model For Understanding Urban Sustainability
- Infrastructure Ecology: An Evolving Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Development
- Infrastructure ecology: an evolving paradigm for sustainable urban development [Proceedings]
- Input-Output Analysis For Infrastructure Ecology
- Interconnectedness and Resilience of the U.S. Economy
- Life cycle assessment of biodiesel production in China
- Life Cycle Assessment of End-of-Life Treatments for Plastic Film Waste
- Life Cycle Assessment of High Speed Rail in China
- Location Design and Relocation of a Mixed Car-Sharing Fleet with a CO2 Emission Constraint
- Managing electric power system transition in China
- Mercury flows in China and global drivers
- Modeling domestic geographical transfers of toxic substances in WEEE: a case study of spent lead-acid batteries in China
- Multiagent Spatial Simulation of Autonomous Taxis for Urban Commute: Travel Economics and Environmental Impacts
- Optimal Locations of Electric Public Charging Stations Using Real World Vehicle Travel Patterns
- Quantifying the Urban Food-Energy-Water (FEW) Nexus: The Case of the Detroit Metropolitan Area
- Reference and Functional Unit Can Change Bioenergy Pathway Choices
- Revisiting Drivers of Energy Intensity in China During 1997-2007: A Structural Decomposition Analysis
- Scaling of Global Input-Output Networks
- Similarity-based link prediction for estimating life cycle inventory data
- Siting Public Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Beijing Using Big-Data Informed Travel Patterns of the Taxi Fleet
- Socioeconomic Drivers of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the United States
- Socioeconomic Drivers of Mercury Emissions in China from 1992 to 2007
- Structure of the Global Virtual Carbon Network: Revealing Important Sectors and Communities for Emission Reduction
- Sustainability implications of connected and autonomous vehicles for the food supply chain
- Sustainability Strategies for Consumer Products in Cities
- Sustainable Infrastructure and Alternatives for Urban Growth
- Temporal and Spatial Variations in Consumption-Based Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China
- The Disposal and Willingness to Pay for Residents' Scrap Fluorescent Lamps in China: A Case Study of Beijing
- The Stability and Profitability of the Informal WEEE Collector in Developing Countries: A Case Study of China
- To realize better extended producer responsibility: Redesign of WEEE fund mode in China
- Trade-off between carbon reduction benefits and ecological costs of biomass-based power plants with carbon capture and storage (CCS) in China
- Understanding Taxi Travel Patterns
- Unintended consequences of bioethanol feedstock choice in China
- Unintended Environmental Consequences and Co-Benefits of Economic Restructuring
- Virtual Atmospheric Mercury Emission Network in China
- Virtual CO2 emission flows in the global electricity trade network
- Virtual Scarce Water Embodied in Inter-Provincial Electricity Transmission in China
- Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Recycling for a Sustainable Resource Supply in the Electronics Industry in China
- Waste oil derived biofuels in China bring brightness for global GHG mitigation
- Water, Energy, Land Use, Transportation and Socioeconomic Nexus: A Blue Print for More Sustainable Urban Systems