Chunbo’s research explores the relationship between economic growth, energy use and air pollution in China, and the adoption of renewable energy technologies in Chinese provinces. Each Alcoa Fellow is assigned at least two faculty mentors. Chunbo completed his PhD in Economics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in June 2007. His research interests include ecological economics, decomposition analysis of the role of biomass in mitigating China’s air pollution problems, and time series analysis of the relationship between energy use and economic growth.