Xiaoyu Chen is a fourth year Ph.D. student in the Industrial and Systems Engineering department at Virginia Tech. He has worked with Dr. Ran Jin since 2015 in the Data Science and Visualization (DSV) Lab. He has a broad research interest in human-machine collaborations with applications to smart manufacturing visualization, data analytics and computation. 

Xiaoyu received a B.Eng. degree from School of Optoelectronics at Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 2015. His personal interests include singing, traditional Chinese medicine, and pencil sketching.