Xi Chen

• Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University
• M.S., Industrial Engineering & Systems Engineering, NC State
• B.Sc., Automation, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China

• Assistant Professor, Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2014 - present
• Assistant Professor, Statistical Science and Operations Research, Virginia Commonwealth University, 2012 - 2014

• ISE 5414:  Random Process
• ISE 5424:  Simulation I

• X. Chen and K.-K. Kim, “Stochastic Kriging with Biased Sample Estimates,” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 24 (2014), 8/1-8/23.
• X. Chen, B. E. Ankenman and B. L. Nelson, “Enhancing Stochastic Kriging Metamodels with Gradient Estimators,” Operations Research, 61 (2013), 512-528.
• X. Chen, B. E. Ankenman and B. L. Nelson, “The Effects of Common Random Numbers on Stochastic Kriging Metamodels,” ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation, 22 (2012), 7/1-7/20.

• INFORMS Simulation Society, Computing Society, and Applied Probability Society
• ACM SIGSIM
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• National Geographic Society

• The 2013 Nemhauser Dissertation Prize awarded by IEMS at Northwestern University
• Student Scholarship Award, the Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology
• The Arthur P. Hurter Award for Outstanding Academic Excellence among First Year Graduate Students
• National Honor Society Phi Kappa Phi Chapter 33 North Carolina State University
• Full tuition graduate assistantship, Northwestern University
• Walter P. Murphy Fellowship, Northwestern University

2017 Senior Design Award winning teams recognized (May 2017)

College of Engineering announces 27 new faculty hires (November 2014)

Spotlight on New Faculty - INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING (October 2014)