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Columbia University

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5.05/4/2026

Knowledgeable and truly inspiring educator.

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Bolun Xu is an Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University, having joined the department in January 2020. He holds an affiliation with the Department of Electrical Engineering and serves as core faculty at the Columbia Electrochemical Energy Center and the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy. Prior to his appointment at Columbia, Xu was a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Energy Initiative and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems from July 2018 to December 2019. His academic background includes a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2018, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich in 2014, and a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering through a dual degree program with the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2011.