Prof. Feng is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to this appointment, he held positions as Tenured Associate Professor, Research Professor and the Chair of Research Faculty at the University of Maryland College Park after his PhD study at University of Leeds, UK. He is currently leading a Sustainability 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. Prof. 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 200 journal articles with significant contributions to top-tier journals of his discipline, including more than 40 publications in Nature, Science and Cell Press journals and PNAS. His research has been supported by different funding sources, such as the Inter-American Development Bank, the Energy Foundation, the National Natural Science Foundation of China to just name a few.

Prof. Feng actively contributes to his field's community through leadership roles. He is currently the President of the International Input-Output Association (IIOA) and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Sustainable Production and Consumption. 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 other journals, including Ecological Economics and Geography and Sustainability. He was named as a Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate from 2019 to 2025. He received multiple International Visiting Fellows awards from the QS World Top Universities, including University of Adelaide and University of Nagoya.