Dr. Feng is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geographical Science at the University of Maryland at College Park. Prior to this appointment he held positions as Research Professor and the Chair of Research Faculty, Associate Research Professor, and Assistant Research Professor from 2012 to 2020 at the University of Maryland after his PhD study at University of Leeds, UK. He is currently leading a human dimension of global change research group specializing in socio-economic and environmental accounting at different spatial scales (local, national, and global), with focuses on sustainable consumption and production, climate change mitigation, low carbon transition, sustainable natural resource management, and environmental justice. Dr. Feng’s research prominently features methodological and modeling development and applications, including Environmentally Extended Input-Output models and extensions (EEIO), Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA), and Integrated Assessment Models (e.g. Global Change Analysis Model - GCAM). He is lead/co-author of more than 170 journal articles with significant contributions to top-tier journals of his discipline, including 40 publications in Nature, Science and Cell Press journals and PNAS. His research has been supported by different funding sources, such as the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Energy Foundation, the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Cheniere Energy, Inc. 

Dr. Feng actively contributes to his field's community through leadership roles. He is currently the Vice-President of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) and Vice-Secretary of the International Society for Industrial Ecology (ISIE). He also co-chaired the SETAC&ACLCA EEIO working group and the ISIE-EEIO section. As a well-recognized researcher in the field of Climate Change Mitigation, he contributed to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report. He also serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Ecological Economics, Sustainable Production and Consumption, and Science of the Total Environment. He was named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate from 2019 to 2023. He received multiple International Visiting Fellows awards from the QS World Top Universities, including Hong Kong University, University of Adelaide, and University of Nagoya.