Household Carbon Footprints
High-resolution household and lifestyle carbon footprint databases that connect consumption patterns, daily activities, income, age, and region with environmentally extended input-output analysis.
Assistant Professor | The University of Tokyo
Liqiao Huang, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor in the Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, and a member of Murakami Laboratory. My work connects lifestyle carbon footprints, sustainable food systems, circular economy, and urban livability.
42
published papers
1000+
total citations
6
core research domains
UTokyo
Graduate School of Engineering
Research
Lifestyle carbon, resource systems, and sustainable cities
Sustainable Dietary Practice
Recipe-level carbon and nutrition assessment using life cycle assessment, input-output analysis, and multi-objective mixed-integer optimization.
Urban Livability and Sustainability
Open-source spatial data, mobility patterns, POIs, and accessibility analysis to evaluate urban livability, sustainable dining access, and station-area attractiveness.
Decarbonization Pathways
Data mining, machine learning, optimization, and scenario analysis for household lifestyle-based decarbonization pathways and low-carbon urban planning.
Oil Product Pipeline Systems
Scheduling-based pipeline capacity estimation, transportation optimization, and life cycle carbon accounting for refined oil and gas pipeline infrastructure.
Circular Economy
Recent work on circular economy transitions, resource recovery, and system-level assessment that connects material flows, environmental impacts, and industrial decarbonization strategies.
Selected Publications
Representative outcomes
Disparities in access to sustainable dining options across the Tokyo Metropolis
Liqiao Huang, Yuyan Huang, Xuejie Lv, Sebastian Montagna, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Yin Long.
Rising socio-economic costs of PM2.5 pollution and medical service mismatching
Xiaoyan Xu, Liqiao Huang, Liming Yao, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Yin Long.
Increasing single households challenges household decarbonization in Japan
Liqiao Huang, Yin Long, Zhiheng Chen, Yuan Li, Jiamin Ou, Yosuke Shigetomi, et al.
Sustainable lifestyle: Quantification and determining factors analysis of household carbon footprints in Japan
Liqiao Huang, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Yuan Li, Nan Cheng, et al.
Extension and update of multiscale monthly household carbon footprint in Japan from 2011 to 2022
Liqiao Huang, Sebastian Montagna, Yi Wu, et al.
Urban household carbon footprint accounting and policy implications for lifestyle-based decarbonization
Liqiao Huang, Yin Long, Jundong Chen, and Yoshikuni Yoshida.
Mixed diets can meet nutrient requirements with lower carbon footprints
Yin Long, Liqiao Huang, Jie Su, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Kuishuang Feng, and Alexandros Gasparatos.
Prediction-based analysis on power consumption gap under long-term emergency: A case in China under COVID-19
Liqiao Huang, Qi Liao, Rui Qiu, Yongtu Liang, Yin Long.
Japanese urban household carbon footprints during early-stage COVID-19 pandemic were consistent with those over the past decade
Yin Long, Yoshikuni Yoshida, Yida Jiang, Liqiao Huang, Wentao Wang, et al.
Experience
Education and research background
Assistant Professor
Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo; Murakami Laboratory.
JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow
Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.
Ph.D. in Engineering
Department of Technology Management for Innovation, The University of Tokyo.
M.Eng. in Oil Storage and Transportation
China University of Petroleum (Beijing).
Awards and Service
Recognition, reviewing, and academic community work
Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad, China Scholarship Council.
JSPS DC2, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.
LDPP Scholarship, The University of Tokyo.
National Scholarship, Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China.
Academic Service
Reviewer for international academic journals including Nature Communications, Global Environmental Change, Urban Climate, Applied Energy, and Energy.
Principal administrator of EnerarXiv and session chair for CUE2020 Applied Energy Symposium.
Methods
Software and modeling toolkit
Python
GAMS
MATLAB
ArcGIS
Adobe Illustrator
Input-Output Analysis
Life Cycle Assessment
Mixed Integer Linear Programming
Convex Optimization
Random Forest
LASSO
Agent-based Modeling
Contact
Research collaboration and academic inquiries
Based in the Department of Technology Management for Innovation, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Murakami Laboratory. Please contact me by email.