CURRICULUM VITAE

Wenxun XING

Professor

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Tsinghua University, Beijing, P. R. China

Phone: +86 10 62787945, Fax: +86 10 62781785

Email: wxing@math.tsinghua.edu.cn

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Research Interests

Combinatorial optimization, global optimization, metaheuristics and scheduling.

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• Combinatorial optimization

Mathematical modeling, algorithms analysis of combinatorial optimization problems.

• Global optimization

Canonical duality methods for quadratic programming.

• Metaheuristics

Applications to combinatorial optimization problems.

• Scheduling

Parallel machine scheduling, vehicle routing and scheduling problems.

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Education 

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• Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics, Tsinghua University, China, 1997.
• M.S. in Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, China, 1987.
• B.S. in Mathematics, Peking University, China, 1982.

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Working Experiences

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• 2004.12- : Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Director of Numerical Analysis and Operations Research.
• 2001.02-2004.12: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing. Director of Numerical Analysis and Operations Research.
• 2000.08-2001.02: Visiting scholar, Department of Computer Sciences, the George Washington University, USA.
• 1997.02-2000.08: Associate Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences at Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• 1996.04-1997.02: Research Associate, Department of Management Science, the City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
• 1987.12-1993.06: Lecture, Department of Applied Mathematics, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• 1982.07-1985.07: Lecture, Department of Mathematics, Guizhou University, Guizhou.

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Courses taught

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Calculus, Probability, Combinatorial Optimization, Linear Algebra, Linear and Non-linear Programming, Network Flows, Metaheuristics, Numerical Analyze.

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