Xing Xie, Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Xing Xie is a Carlton S. Wilder Associate Professor and the Environmental Engineering Group Leader in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Georgia Tech, he was a postdoc at Caltech. Dr. Xie received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Environmental Science & Engineering from Tsinghua. He received his second M.S. degree in Materials Science & Engineering and Ph.D. degree in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Stanford. Dr. Xie’s research interests center around the applications of environmental biotechnology and materials science at the nexus of water, food, energy, and health. He has worked on many projects related to water treatment and reuse, pollutant detection and quantification, and energy and resource recovery. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, and his work has been cited about 12,000 times with an H-index of 48. Dr. Xie has received CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation (2019), Sustainable Nanotechnology Organization Emerging Investigator Award (2020), Excellence in Environmental Engineering and Science Honor Award from the American Academy of Environmental Engineers & Scientists (2021), Best Paper Award from Environmental Science & Technology (2022), James J. Morgan Early Career Award Honorable Mention from American Chemical Society (2023), and Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from American Society of Civil Engineers (2024). He is also a licensed Professional Engineer in Georgia.