Ruiqing Miao graduated from the Department of Economics with a PhD in the spring of 2012. He is currently at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, working as a postdoc research associate for Energy Biosciences Institute with Dr. Madhu Khanna. 

He participates in ongoing research that aims to understand the economic incentives for producing biofuel crops under risk and uncertainties, the design of contractual arrangements and policies to promote adoption, and the economic, environmental and land use implications of biofuel production.