Le Xie

Dr. Le Xie is the Gordon McKay Professor of Electrical Engineering at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). He was on the faculty of Texas A&M Electrical and Computer Engineering Department from 2010 to 2024. He received B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2004, S.M. in Engineering Sciences from Harvard in 2005, and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon in 2009. His industry experience includes work at ISO-New England and Edison Mission Energy Marketing and Trading. His research interest includes modeling and control in data-rich large-scale systems, grid integration of clean energy resources, and electricity markets.

At the Belfer Center, Xie helps lead research on the impact of the data center boom on the U.S. electricity grid, a joint initiative of the Belfer Center and Harvard SEAS.