Ming Xu is the Chair Professor of Carbon Neutrality, Associate Dean for Research, and Founding Director of Center of AI for Ecology and Environment in School of Environment at Tsinghua University. Prior to that, he was a Professor in School for Environment and Sustainability and a Professor in Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He was also the inaugural Director of China Programs in School of Environment and Sustainability and Co-Director of the Graduate Certificate Program in Industrial Ecology at University of Michigan. He received the 2015 Robert A. Laudise Medal from International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE), the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2016, the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) in 2021, and the Amazon Research Award in 2024. He has been serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling since 2015 (2023 Impact Factor: 11.2). He founded the International Conference on Resource Sustainability (icRS) series in 2018 and has served as the conference General Chair. He was elected Chair of the 2024 Gordon Research Conference on Industrial Ecology and President of International Society for Industrial Ecology for 2023-2024. He is also a member of the UNEP International Resource Panel. He is currently leading the TianGong Initiative to develop the open-access life cycle unit process database — TianGong Database (www.tiangong.earth) and the world’s first large language model application in environment, ecology, and sustainability — TianGong AI (www.tiangong.earth/ai).