Ming Xu joined SNRE in Fall 2010. He has a courtesy appointment with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Michigan. He is also a core faculty member in the Center for Sustainable Systems. He is interested in developing and applying interdisciplinary system-based analytical tools to understand complex sustainability issues. Current focus of research includes environmental implications of emerging bioenergy and clean vehicle technologies, environmental impacts of international trade, and trajectory data mining for individual-based travel pattern detection. His teaching focuses on sustainable systems analysis techniques and tools.