Ying Xu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to earning her Ph.D. from Virginia Tech in 2009, she earned her B.S. and M.S. degrees in civil engineering from Tsinghua University in China. While at Virginia Tech, she received College of Engineering Dean’s Fellowship, Teaching Fellowship, and scholarships from the Air and Waste Management Association, Greenguard Environmental Institute, and Institute for Airflow Diagnostic Education Foundation.

Dr. Xu’s research is focused on understanding the relationships among sources, indoor environments, and human health for semi-volatile endocrine disrupting compounds (EDC’s). She has served as principal investigator and co-principal investigator on approximately $1.4 million funded research projects, ranging from emissions of EDC’s from building materials and consumer products, interactions of EDCs with indoor aerosols, and the transport and human exposures associated with emerging contaminants in indoor environments. Dr. Xu and her research team have published over 60 papers in top journals of environmental engineering and in conference proceedings. Her pioneering research has been cited over 500 times by other researchers since 2009 with several publications cited over 50 times each on the Web of Science. Recently, two of her journal publications were selected for special honors, one as the Editors’ Choice Article by the American Chemical Society (ACS) and the other in “Science Selections” by the journal Environmental Health Perspectives. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Yaglou Award (2011) from the International Society of Indoor Air Quality and Climate (ISIAQ) for being the most promising young researcher in the field of indoor air sciences. She has also been awarded the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award (2012), New Investigator Award from the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air Conditioning Engineers (2014), the Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award from the Air and Waste Management Association (2015).

At the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Xu teaches Building Environmental Systems, as well as graduate-level courses on Sources and Indoor Air Pollution, and Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability.

She serves as the chair of ISIAQ’s Scientific and Technical Committee 11: Sources, Monitoring, and Evaluation: Chemical Pollutants. She is also a member of ASHRAW technical committees and a co-organizer of research workshops and conferences. She has volunteered much of her time participating in proposal review panels for NSF CBET Environmental Engineering