Xin Chen

Assistant Professor

Contact Information
Office: 216c Transportation Building
Mailing Address:
117 Transportation Building MC-238
104 S. Mathews Ave.
Urbana IL 61801
Phone: (217) 244-8685
Fax: (217) 244-5705
e-mail: xinchen@uiuc.edu

Description of Research

• Production, Inventory and Supply Chain Management Optimization, Optimal Stochastic Control, Computational Mathematics, Operations Research, Operations Management

Educational History

• Ph.D., Operations Research, Massacheusetts Institute of Technology, 2003
• M.S., Computational Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1998
• B.S., Computational Mathematics, Xiangtan University, 1995

Academic Positions

• Assistant Professor, Dept of Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering, UIUC, 2006-present
• Assistant Professor, Dept of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UIUC, 2004-2006
• Postdoctoral associate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003-2004
• Teaching Assistant/Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Fall 2002 & Fall 2003

Honors and Awards

• George Nicholson Student Paper Competition Honorable Mention, 2002
• MSOM Student Paper Competition Second Prize, 2002

Professional Societies

• Institute of Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS)
• Chen, J., X. Chen, and P. Tseng. "Analysis of Nonsmooth Vector-Valued Functions Associated with Second-order Cones," Mathematical Programming, 101, 95-117, 2004
• Chen, X. and D. Simchi-Levi. "Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: The Finite Horizon Case," Operations Research, 52:6, 887-896, 2004
• Chen, X. and D. Simchi-Levi. "Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: The Infinite Horizon Case," Mathematics of Operations Research, 29:3, 698-723, 2004
• Chen, X., H. Qi, L. Qi, and K-l Teo. "Smooth Convex Approximation to the Maximum Eigenvalue Function," Journal of Global Optimization, 30, 253-270, 2004
• Chen, X.. "Coordinating Inventory Control and Pricing Strategies with Random Demand and Fixed Ordering Cost: Extended Abstract," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 5:1, 59-62, 2003
• Chen, X. and P. Tseng. "Non-Interior Continuation Methods for Solving Semidefinite Complementarity Problems," Mathematical Programming, 95, 431-474, 2003
• Chen, X., H. Qi, and P. Tseng. "Analysis of Nonsmooth Symmetric-Matrix-Valued Functions with Applications to Semidefinite Complementarity Problems," SIAM Journal of Optimization, 960-985, 2003
• Anstreicher, K., X. Chen, H. Wolkowicz, and Y. Yuan. "Strong Duality fora Trust-Region Type Relaxation of the Quadratic Assignment Problem," Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 301, 121-136, 1999
• Chen, X. and Y. Yuan. "A Note on Quadratic Forms," Mathematical Programming, 86, 187-197, 1999

Related Links

• https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/xinchen/www/