I am a first year PhD student in Operations Research at Stanford University.

I received my bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley, where I was fortunate to conduct research under the supervision of Anil Aswani, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Cheng Ren.

Research

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Pre-prints

1. Tensor Completion via Integer Optimization
   Xin Chen*, Sukanya Kudva*, Yongzheng Dai, Anil Aswani, Chen Chen
   (preprint)

2. What Lies Behind the Answers: Applying Machine Learning to Understand Tenants’ Reaction to Eviction
   Cheng Ren, Tim Thomas, Xin Chen, & Leyi Zhou
   (preprint)

Publications

1. Optimal Contract Design for End-of-Life Care Payments
   Muyan Jiang, Ying Chen, Xin Chen, Javad Lavaei, Anil Aswani
   IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2024). (paper)

2. Evaluating Tenant-Landlord Tensions Using Generative AI on Online Tenant Forums
   Xin Chen, Cheng Ren, Tim Thomas
   Journal of Computational Social Science (2025). (paper)

Other

1. Fair Logistic Regression for Intracranial Pressure Monitoring Assignment.
   Xin Chen, Malini Mahendra, Anil Aswani
   2024 AMIA Annual Symposium. (Poster)