Haibin Xu is a senior advisor to the CTO at Technip Energies, and an Executive in Residence at UT Austin. He has held technical and leadership positions for 24 years in upstream oil and gas, innovation, corporate strategy, and venture investment. Previously he was Global General Manager Shell Research Alliance, a member of the Shell Science Council, and a co-founder and the founding director of GCxN, an award-winning global cleantech incubator as a partnership between Shell and the National Lab of Rockies (NLR). He is the 2026 President-Elect of the Asian American Academy of Science and Engineering (AAASE). He has a passion for mentoring early career professionals and has delivered a TEDx talk on career growth. Haibin holds a Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University.