Dr. Jiaming Xu

Associate Professor

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Biography

Jiaming Xu is an associate professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, a position he has held since July 2018. Prior to this, he served as an assistant professor at the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University from August 2016 to June 2018. In early 2016, he was a research fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at UC Berkeley. He also worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Statistics Department at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania from January to December 2015. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, completed in 2014, under the supervision of Professor Bruce Hajek. He earned a Master's degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2011 and a Bachelor's degree from Tsinghua University in 2009, specializing in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests span data science, high-dimensional statistics, artificial intelligence, operations research, information theory, convex and non-convex optimization, queueing theory, and game theory. Jiaming received the Simons-Berkeley Fellowship in 2016 and the NSF Career Award in 2022. He teaches courses such as Decision Models and Decision Analytics & Modeling for graduate students and has been recognized with an Excellence Teaching Award for the MQM program.

Research Interests

Experience

Associate Professor

2018-07-01 — Present

Fuqua School of Business, Duke University • Durham, NC

Teaching and researching decision sciences.

Assistant Professor

2016-08-01 — 2018-06-30

Krannert School of Management, Purdue University •

Focused on research in decision sciences.

Research Fellow

2016-01-01 — 2016-06-30

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, UC Berkeley •

Engaged in theoretical research.

Postdoctoral Fellow

2015-01-01 — 2015-12-31

Statistics Department, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania •

Conducted postdoctoral research in statistics.

Awards

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Simons-Berkeley Fellowship

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NSF Career Award

Requirements for Duke University

Master Program
Requirements
GPA Requirement
Required:3.2
TOEFL
Listening
Required:22
Reading
Required:22
Writing
Required:24
Speaking
Required:26
Total
Required:90
IELTS
Overall
Required:7
Prerequisites
Multivariable Calculus Introduction to Physics (mechanics) Introduction to Chemistry
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Specialization Notes

Department of Biomedical Engineering (MS program)