Xi Chen

Xi Chen (Chinese: 陈汐)^[1] is a computer scientist.^[2] He is a professor^[3] of computer science at Columbia University.^[2] Chen won the 2021 Gödel Prize and Fulkerson Prize for his co-authored paper "Complexity of Counting CSP with Complex Weights" with Jin-Yi Cai.^[4][5]

Xi Chen
Alma mater	Tsinghua University
Known for	Computational complexity theory
Awards	Gödel Prize (2021) Fulkerson Prize (2021) Presburger Award (2015) Sloan Research Fellowship (2012)
Scientific career
Fields	Computer theory
Institutions	Columbia University
Website	Xi Chen at Columbia University

Biography

Chen received his B.S. and Ph.D. from Tsinghua University.^[6] He was a postdoctoral fellow at Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University, University of Southern California, and joined the Columbia faculty in 2011.^[7]

Chen's research focuses on computational complexity theory.^[2] He also received a Presburger Award from the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science in 2015 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2012.^[8]