Teaching & Mentoring

Instructor

University of Missouri

  • Green Engineering (BIOL-EN/CH-ENG 4001/7001)
    Invited Lecturer, Spring 2026

Energy Institute, Texas A&M University
& King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Center (KAPSARC), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  • Energy, Policy and Environment
    Co-Designer and Instructor, Nov. 2023

Texas A&M University

  • AGEC 641: Applied Mathematical Programming (Ph.D. level)
    Lab Instructor, Spring 2023

Teaching Assistant

Texas A&M University

  • AGEC 344: Agricultural and Food Law
    Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021

  • AGEC 350: Natural Resource and Environmental Economics
    Fall 2020, Spring 2021

  • AGEC 621: Econometrics for Agribusiness (Master’s level)
    Fall 2021

National Tsing Hua University

  • Global Economy (EMBA)
    Fall 2015

Mentoring

As project lead in the research group of Dr. Bruce McCarl and Dr. Chengcheng Fei at Texas A&M, I supervise the research of the students and staff below, including hands-on tutoring in research methods and modeling tools.

Research staff

  • Mengqiao Liu, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University
  • Aihui Li, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University
  • Lunyu Zhao, Assistant Research Scientist, Texas A&M University, 2024-2026; now Pedernales Electric Cooperative

Ph.D. students

  • Xinran Wang, Ph.D. student, Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
  • Yifan Yang, Ph.D. student, Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
  • Jingyi Liu, Ph.D. student, Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University
  • Zhihui Li, Ph.D. student, Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University
  • Ke Li, Ph.D. student, Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University: developing a hands-free process block flow diagram (BFD) tool
  • Kaiyi Zhang, Ph.D. 2026, Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University; now Foxconn Industrial Internet

Undergraduate researchers

  • Jackson Mourtada, CURB REU, University of Delaware, 2026: carbon capture and utilization (CCU) pathways and their costs
  • Emilio Lugo Gutierrez, CURB REU, Computer Science, Duke University, 2025: built a database of CO2-derived bioproducts

Service

  • Track Session Organizer, AAEA Annual Meeting, 2026
  • IOP Trusted Reviewer, IOP Publishing, 2026