Yixin Chen is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Washington University in St. Louis, which he joined in 2005. His research interests include data mining, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and optimization. He received the Best Paper Award at the IDEAL Conference (2016), Distinguished Paper Award at the AMIA Conference (2015), Best Student Paper Runner-up Award at the ACM SIGKDD Conference (2014), Best Paper Award at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2010), and the IEEE International Conference on Tools for AI (2005). He also received Best Paper Award nominations at ACM CHI (2018), IEEE ICDM (2013), IEEE RTAS (2012), and KDD (2009).
His work on planning has won First Prizes in the International Planning Competitions (2004 & 2006). He received an Early Career Principal Investigator Award from the Department of Energy (2006) and a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellowship (2007). His research has been funded by NSF, NIH, DOE, Microsoft, Fujitsu, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He served as a Program Chair for IEEE International Conference on Big Data (2021), and an Associate Editor for ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare, ACM Transactions of Intelligent Systems and Technology, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering.
He was admitted by the Special Class for Gifted Young at University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1995, at age 15. He earned a bachelor’s in computer science from USTC in 1999 and a master’s and a doctorate from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is a Fellow of AAIA and IEEE.