Dr. Xiangkun Elvis Cao is a Schmidt Science Fellow at MIT, working at the intersection of technology, business, and policy for carbon dioxide removal. He discusses the need for incentives to support investigators with interdisciplinary academic identities to perform their research and hasten scientific breakthroughs. Elvis also describes his journey from a small village in China to completing his PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Cornell. He is passionate about mentoring other early career researchers and empowering individuals from historically under-represented groups in science and engineering.

Transcript Link: https://tinyurl.com/ECCtranscript1

He can be found:

https://www.elviscao.com/

https://www.elviscao.com/publications under 4.4 Op-eds

https://www.linkedin.com/in/xiangkun-elvis-cao/

https://twitter.com/Elvis_Cao

Elvis highly recommends, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People” by Stephen Covey.

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Cornell Broadcast Studios

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