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Dr. Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao (https://www.elviscao.com/) is currently a Senior Consultant for Carbon Dioxide Removal at DNV. He is also a Senior Schmidt Science Fellow (SSF), a lifelong fellowship by Schmidt Sciences in partnership with the Rhodes Trust. During his SSF placement, Elvis pursued his independent research vision of integrated carbon capture and utilization at MIT and built independent collaboration with researchers across three continents. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University, working with Professor David Erickson, focusing on optofluidics for global sustainability and health applications. Dr. Cao secured $750K USD in grant funding as the PI/Co-PI from the Commission for Environmental Cooperation and the Carbontech Development Initiative by the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), among others. Dr. Cao has been named an Activate Fellow, an MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium Impact Fellow, a Carbon Removal Justice Fellow, and a German Chancellor Fellow by the Humboldt Foundation. Cao has received MIT Technology Review Under 35 Innovators (TR35) - Global, Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy for North America, CAS Future Leader, World Energy Council's Future Energy Leader (FEL-100), Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Young Scientist, ME Rising Stars by UC Berkeley, and MSE Rising Stars by CMU, Stanford, and MIT. Besides research, Cao was inducted into the Edward A. Bouchet Honor Society for his service to first-generation, low-income (FGLI) students.