Position:
Core Staff
Assistant Professor
Email:
mingxu@umich.edu
Office Location:
3006 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
- CAREER: Computational Approaches for Life Cycle Inventory Database
- Climate Change on Global Food System: Strategy to Feed 9 Billion People
- Combination of Water Sensitive Urban Design and Ecological Landscape Design in China
- 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
- Environmental Trade-Offs in Commodity Production
- Influence of global trade on the human health impacts of particulate matter
- 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
- MCubed Diamond: Defining Innovative Sustainable Solutions for Film-Based Packages
- Pursuing Sustainability with UMHS' Patient Food & Nutrition Services: Aligning Sustainable Practices with Healthcare Delivery
- Stone Paper LCA
- 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
- Agent-Based Life Cycle Assessment for Switchgrass-Based Bioenergy Systems
- 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
- 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 Clean Energy Target: Consistency, Pathways and Policy Implications
- CO2 Emissions Embodied in China's Exports from 2002 to 2008: A Structural Decomposition Analysis
- Complexity in Industrial Ecology: Models, Analysis, and Actions
- Decoupling Analysis and Socioeconomic Drivers of Environmental Pressure in China
- Dependence of Wind Energy on Electric Utility in the US
- Developing a Science of Infrastructure Ecology for Sustainable Urban Systems
- Developing the Chinese Environmentally Extended Input-Output (CEEIO) Database
- 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
- Impact of Emerging Clean Vehicle System on Water Stress
- Infrastructure Ecology: A Conceptual Model For Understanding Urban Sustainability
- Infrastructure Ecology: An Evolving Paradigm for Sustainable Urban Development
- Input-Output Analysis For Infrastructure Ecology
- Interconnectedness and Resilience of the U.S. Economy
- Life Cycle Assessment of High Speed Rail in China
- Optimal Locations of Electric Public Charging Stations Using Real World Vehicle Travel Patterns
- 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
- 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
- Structure of the Global Virtual Carbon Network: Revealing Important Sectors and Communities for Emission Reduction
- Sustainability Strategies for Consumer Products in Cities
- 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
- Understanding Taxi Travel Patterns
- Unintended Environmental Consequences and Co-Benefits of Economic Restructuring
- Virtual Atmospheric Mercury Emission Network in China
- 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
- Water, Energy, Land Use, Transportation and Socioeconomic Nexus: A Blue Print for More Sustainable Urban Systems