Boqian Xu is an Assistant Professor from the Department of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, School of Architecture, Texas A&M University. Boqian holds a PhD in City and Regional Planning, a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Landscape Gardening from Beijing Forestry University. Boqian is also a licensed Professional Landscape Architect. He practiced at James Corner Field Operations (New York) and worked on many projects in both China and the United States.

Boqian's research focuses on Ecocities, Ecological Footprint, and Geo-design. He is committed to Ecological Footprint's application in the planning realm, design the built environment to shape individual behaviors, reduce urban ecological footprints, and foster planetary sustainability. His research agenda centers on the Ecological Footprints of "neighborhoods," a scale gap within existing ecological footprint studies. The goal is to transition Ecological Footprint's research scale from "nation-city-individual" to "nation-city-neighborhood-individual".