Academic Staff

Xiaojun Chen is a Chair Professor of Department of Applied Mathematics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU).  Her research interests focus on mathematical optimization theory and dynamic stochastic variational inequalities with applications in data sciences and AI. She published over 100 papers in top journals in applied mathematics. She is the Project Coordinator/Principal Investigator of several large grants from Hong Kong Research Grant Council and Croucher Foundation. She is a fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), a fellow of American Mathematical Society (AMS) and a fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). She was Head of Department of Applied Mathematics and Director of University Research Facility in Big Data Analytics in PolyU. She is Co-Director of CAS Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science and PolyU Joint Laboratory in Applied Mathematics and Co-Director of the CITIC-PolyU Interdisciplinary Mathematical Digital AI Joint Laboratory. She serves on the editorial boards of eight SCI journals including SIAM Journal on Optimization and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and served SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis as an Associate Editor for 12 years. She was a keynote speaker of the 25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in Canada 2024, and an invited 45-minute speaker in the International Congress of Mathematics (ICM) in Philadelphia 2026.

• Doctor of Philosophy, Xi'an Jiaotong University