Education
Ph.D. (Industrial Engineering), Texas A&M University, 2020.
B.S. (Mathematics and Applied Mathematics), Fudan University, 2015.
Research Interests
Stochastic processes, Queueing networks, machine learning, scheduling
Work Experiences
Oct, 2020-Oct, 2022: Postdoctoral researcher, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Representative Research Projects
[1] “Queueing modeling and optimization research of customers' overlaps in service systems”, National Natural Science Foundation of China, 2024.01-2026.12, principal investigator.
[2] “Modeling and optimization of information freshness in general queueing systems”, Hubei Provincial Natural Science Foundation, 2023.7-2025.6, principal investigator.
[3] “Queueing analysis for information freshness”, China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2021.11-2022.10, principal investigator.
[4] “Fresh information acquisition in multi-agent systems”, Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society (AIRS), 2021.4-2022.4, principal investigator.
Representative Research Papers
International Journal Publications
[1] Xu, J., Wang, W., Gao, Z.*, Luo, H., Wu, Q. “A novel Markov model for near-term railway delay prediction.” Computers & Industrial Engineering 181 (2023): 109302.
[2] Xu, J., Wu, X., Huang, Q.* and Sun, P., “How should the server sleep? – Age-energy tradeoff in sleep-wake server systems,” IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 7:4 (2023):1620-1634.
[3] Xu, J.*, Hou, I., Gautam, N. “Age of Information for Single Buffer Systems with Vacation Server”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 9:3 (2022): 1198-1214.
[4] Xu, J., Gautam, N.* “Peak age of information in priority queuing systems”, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 67:1 (2021): 373-390.
[5] Xu, J.*, Chen, Y. “Information Freshness in Sleep-wake Server Systems”, IEEE Communications Letters, 25:7 (2021): 2186 - 2190.
[6] Kong, M., Xu, J.*, Zhang, T.*, Lu, S*., Fang, C., Mladenovic, N. “Energy-efficient rescheduling with time-of-use energy cost: Application of variable neighborhood search algorithm”, Computers & Industrial Engineering, 156 (2021): 107286.
[7] Xu, J.*, Gautam, N. “On Competitive Analysis for Polling Systems”, Naval Research Logistics, 67:6 (2020): 404–419.
[8] Xu, J., Tran, H., Gautam, N.*, Bukkapatnam, S. “Joint Production and Maintenance Operations in Smart Custom-Manufacturing Systems”, IISE Transactions, 51:4 (2019): 406-421.
Grants and Awards
[1] INFORMS Telecommunications and Network Analytics Section, Best Paper Finalist, 2022
[2] INFORMS Railway Problem Solving Competition, Third Prize, 2018
Courses Taught
Machine learning
Innovation project practice
