About me
Coca-Cola Foundation Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
Address: 765 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332
Office: Rm. 426 Groseclose Bld.
E-mail: wxie (at) gatech (dot) edu
Dr. Weijun Xie is the Coca-Cola Foundation Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research interests are theory and applications of stochastic, discrete, and convex optimization. His works have received multiple awards, including the 2022 New Investigator Award from the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (NASA), the 2021 NSF CAREER Award, Winner of the 2020 INFORMS Young Researchers Paper Prize. He currently serves as Associate Editor of Operations Research, Mathematical Programming, and the Journal of Global Optimization.
Education
Ph.D. in Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 2017
Thesis Title: Relaxations and Approximations of Chance Constrained Stochastic Programs
Advisor: Shabbir Ahmed
Minor: Computer Science
M.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, August 2013
M.S. in Applied Mathematics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, December 2012
B.S. in Civil Enginnering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, July 2010
Employment
Assistant Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech, August 2022- present
Assistant Professor, Grado Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, August 2017-July 2022
Research Interests
Methodologies
Distributionally robust optimization
Stochastic programming
Approximation algorithms
Integer programming
Applications
Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning
Optimal experimental design
Logistics and network design problems under uncertainty
Stochastic/robust power system design
