Ke Wang
Ph.D., Professor (tenured), School of Management, Beijing Institute of Technology
Deputy director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, Beijing Institute of Technology
Deputy director, Beijing Key Lab of Energy Economics and Environmental Management
Dean, Academy of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology
Executive vice dean, Institute of National Security and Development Studies, Beijing Institute of Technology
Address: 5 South Zhongguancun Street, Beijing 100081, China
Tel: +86-10-68918651
E-mail:wangkebit@bit.edu.cn
Energy, Resource and Environmental Economics Modeling
Energy Management and Climate Policy Modeling
Efficiency and Productivity Measurement
Ph.D. in Management Science, Beihang University (BUAA)
Joint doctoral education in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
Energy and carbon neutrality system engineering
Management and system engineering
Project risk management
Energy economics and policy
Efficiency and productivity analysis
Secretary General and Council Standing Membership of Chinese Society of Energy Economics and Management
Council Member of Energy and Resources System Engineering Section of Systems Engineering Society of China
Membership of Complexity System Section of Chinese Society of Optimization, Overall Planning and Economical Mathematics
National Social Science Found of China, PI, 2023-2025
National Natural Science Foundation of China, PI, 2012-2014 & 2015-2018 & 2019-2022 & 2023-2026
National Natural Science Foundation of China, Co-PI, 2018-2020
National Program for Support of Top-notch Young Professionals, PI, 2019-2021
Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation, PI, 2018-2020
Social Science Foundation of Beijing, PI, 2016-2018
Basic Scientific Research Foundation of BIT, PI, 2013-2014 & 2016-2018
State Grid Corporation of China Research Project, co-PI, 2016-2017
World Bank - China Energy Efficiency Financing Project, co-PI, 2013-2014
China Low Carbon Development Strategy Research Project, co-PI, 2012-2014
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, PI, 2011-2012 & 2012-2013
China Clean Development Mechanism Fund, PI, 2012-2013
Pi Z, Wang K*. Does lower electric vehicle production cost spur traditional automaker electrification? Spillovers of cost-reduction investments. Resource and Energy Economics 2025, 81, 101477.
Wang J, Wang K*, Hubacek K*, Feng K, Shan Y, Wei Y. Changes in global trade patterns increase global inequality towards Sustainable Development Goals. Ecological Economics 2025, 227, 108421.
Lu M, Pollitt M, Wang K*, Wei YM. The Incremental Impact of China’s Carbon Trading Pilots on Carbon Abatement. The Energy Journal 2025, 46(6), 211-239
Yuan Q, Jia H, Wang K*. To adopt the CCUS technology or not? An evolutionary game analysis between coal-to-hydrogen plants and oil-fields. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2024, 96, 1159-1170.
Zhu Y, Wang K*. Policy synergy analysis on coordinating reduction of pollution and carbon emissions in China: Insights from text mining and network analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 2024, 372, 123389.
Fan D, Zhao M, Wang K*. Do impoverished regions benefit from climate change mitigation measures? Evidence from the Forest Carbon Sink Project in China. Climate Policy 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2024.2418947.
Wei C, Zhang Y, Lan M, Su Z, Du H, Wang K*. How could we benefit from a low-carbon economy? Evidence from Chinese regional labor markets. Structural Change and Economic Dynamics 2024, 71, 523-537. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.strueco.2024.09.001.
Pi Z, Wang K*, Wei YM, Huang Z. Transitioning from gasoline to electric vehicles: Electrification decision of automakers under purchase and station subsidies. Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review 2024, 188, 103640.
Wei YM, Huang Z, Coffman D, Liao H, Wang K*. Production Optimisation in Carbon Reduction Engineering Management (Editorial). International Journal of Production Research 2024, 62(18), 6445-6448.
Zhao M, Wang K*. Short-term effects of PM2.5 components on the respiratory infectious disease: a global perspective. Environmental Geochemistry and Health 2024, 46, 293.
Zhang Y, Wang K*. Mitigation effect of the European Union emission trading system on aviation emissions. Transportation Research Part D: Transport and Environment 2024, 130, 104186.
Wang J, Ji C, Liu Y, Shan Y, Hubacek K*, Wei YM, Wang K*. Re-investigating the shared responsibility for trade-embodied carbon emissions. Ecological Economics 2024, 220, 108162.
Xian Y, Li N, Wang K*. Carbon emissions marginal abatement cost and its influencing factors from the construction and hygienic ceramics manufacturing industries in China. Environmental Impact Assessment Review 2023, 104, 107352.
Xian Y, Hu Z, Wang K*. The least-cost abatement measure of carbon emissions for China's glass manufacturing industry based on the marginal abatement costs. Energy 2023, 284, 129159.
Wang K*, Zhang Y, Wei YM. China's aviation passenger transport can reduce CO2 emissions by 2.9 billion tons by 2050 if certain abatement options are implemented. One Earth 2023, 6(8), 1050-1065.
Wang K*, Wang Z, Xian Y*, Shi X*, Yu J, Feng K, Hubacek K, Wei YM. Optimizing the rolling out plan of China’s carbon market. iScience 2023, 26(1), 105823.
Shi C, Xian Y, Wang Z, Wang K*. Marginal abatement cost curve of carbon emissions in China: A functional data analysis. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change 2023, 28(2), 13.
Xian Y, Yu D, Wang K*, Yu J, Huang Z. Capturing the least costly measure of CO2 emission abatement: Evidence from the iron and steel industry in China. Energy Economics 2022, 106, 105812.
Lee CY, Wang K*, Sun W. Allocation of emissions permit for China’s iron and steel industry in an imperfectly competitive market: A Nash equilibrium DEA method. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management 2021, 68(2): 548-561.
Wang K*, Xian Y, Yang K, Shi X, Wei YM, Huang Z. The Marginal Abatement Cost Curve and Optimized Abatement Trajectory of CO2 Emissions from China’s Petroleum Industry. Regional Environmental Change 2020, 20, 131.
Wang J, Wang K*, Wei YM. How to balance China’s sustainable development goals through industrial restructuring: A multi-regional input–output optimization of the employment–energy–water–emissions nexus. Environmental Research Letters 2020, 15, 034018.
Wang K*, Mi Z, Wei YM. Will pollution taxes improve joint ecological and economic efficiency of thermal power industry in China? A DEA-based materials balance approach. Journal of Industrial Ecology 2019, 23(2): 389-401.
Wang K, Xian Y, Lee CY, Wei YM, Huang Z*. On selecting directions for directional distance functions in a non-parametric framework: A review. Annals of Operations Research 2019, 278: 43-76.
Wang K, Wei YM, Huang Z*. Environmental efficiency and abatement efficiency measurements of China's thermal power industry: A data envelopment analysis based materials balance approach. European Journal of Operational Research 2018, 269(1): 35-50.
Wang Z, Li Y, Wang K*, Huang Z. Environment-adjusted operational performance evaluation of solar photovoltaic power plants: A three stage efficiency analysis. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 2017, 76, 1153-1162.
Wang K*, Wei YM. Sources of energy productivity change in China during 1997-2012: A decomposition analysis based on the Luenberger productivity indicator. Energy Economics 2016, 54, 50-59.
Wang K*, Wei YM, Huang Z. Potential gains from carbon emissions trading in China: A DEA based estimation on abatement cost savings. Omega-International Journal of Management Science 2016, 63, 48-59.
Wang K*, Wei YM, Zhang X. Energy and emissions efficiency patterns of Chinese regions: A multi-directional efficiency analysis. Applied Energy 2013, 104, 105-116.
Wang K*, Wei YM, Zhang X. A comparative analysis of China’s regional energy and emission performance: Which is the better way to deal with undesirable outputs? Energy Policy 2012, 46, 574-584.
Wang K*, Wei FJ. Robust data envelopment analysis based MCDM with the consideration of uncertain data. Journal of Systems Engineering and Electronics 2010, 21(6), 981-989.
Xian, Y., Wang, K*. Carbon Productivity and Carbon Shadow Price in China’s Power Industry: An Endogenous Directional Distance Function Approach, in Energy, Environment and Transitional Green Growth in China (edited by Pang R, Bai X, Lovell K), Springer, 2018.
Wang K. Evaluation and decomposition of energy and environmental productivity change using DEA, in Handbook of Operations Analytics Using Data Envelopment Analysis (edited by Huang S-N, Lee S-H, Zhu J), Springer, 2016. (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
Wang K. Energy Efficiency Index via Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA): Methodology and Application, in Handbook of Clean Energy Systems (edited by Yan J), Wiley, 2014.
Wei YM, Liao H, Wang K, Hao Y. China Energy Report (2014): Energy Poverty Research. Science Press, 2014.
Wang K. Comprehensive Evaluation and Data Envelopment Analysis. Science Press, 2018.
Nature Energy, European Journal of Operational Research, OMEGA, Annals of Operations Research, Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Applied Energy, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Production Economics, Managerial Finance, Natural Hazards, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Energy Efficiency, Journal of Cleaner Production, PLoS ONE, Carbon Management, Transportation Research Part D
Annals of Operations Research, Natural Hazards, Frontiers of Engineering Management, International Journal of Production Research
Journal of Modelling in Management
