Dr. Xi is a chair professor at Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo. He was a professor of Environmental Health Sciences & Global Public Health and director of Global Environmental Health in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at University of Michigan. He received his PhD from Catholic University of Leuven Belgium in 2010. Prof. Xi's research focuses on biofilms, water quality and treatment, and human health. Dr. Xi was a Scholar-in-Residence at US FDA, a chair and council of Division Q of American Society for Microbiology, a former president of Sino-Micro, and a co-director of U-M-BICI Partnership Program. Dr. Xi currently also serves as chair of Public Health Council of NSF International and an associate editor for mLife.