Xiao is a postdoctoral scholar with ETAPA in the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, working on incorporating life cycle and techno-economic analyses into integrate assessment models. Previously, he was a visiting doctoral student with ETAPA (Washington DC) from the department of Hydropower & Water resources in Wuhan University (2020-2023). His research interests include renewable energy system operations, energy economics and policy, energy-land-environment nexus, and techno-ecology synergy. In his PhD, he addressed the hydropower operations considering its techno-economic-ecology synergy. He has designed a whole model for long-term renewable investments, forward contract, boundary and self-scheduling in spot markets. He explores the deployment of renewables worldwide, to effectively limit GHG emissions, from a multi-disciplinary view. (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Xiao-sean-Li/research)