JIN,Xianfei
POSITION/TITLE
Professor
Research Field
Operations research applications in civil aviation; interdisciplinary research on artificial intelligence and operations research
Jinxianfei@sribd.cn
Education Background
Ph.D., School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
M.Eng., School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
B.Eng., School of Mechanical Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Honors
2016 Sabre Airline Solutions Champion
Honorable Mention in 2014 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management
Biography
Dr. Jin Xianfei is currently a Research Scientist at the Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data (SRIBD). He received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, in 2012. Dr. Jin has long been dedicated to research at the intersection of operations research and artificial intelligence in civil aviation. He previously served as a Principal Data Science and Operations Research Engineer at Sabre Corporation, a global leader in aviation IT solutions, and as Chief Representative for the Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen offices, where he led the development of core decision-support systems including gate assignment, flight recovery, and Sabre Travel AI.
His research interests cover flight schedule planning, airport ground operations, airline network design, air traffic flow management, and aviation demand forecasting, with a strong focus on integrating reinforcement learning, deep learning, and classical optimization methods. His work has been published in leading journals such as Transportation Research Part B, European Journal of Operational Research, and International Journal of Production Economics.
Academic Publications
Jin, Xianfei, Kunpeng Li, and Appa Iyer Sivakumar. "Scheduling and optimal delivery time quotation for customers with time sensitive demand." International Journal of Production Economics 145.1 (2013): 349- 358.
Jin, Xianfei, Appa Iyer Sivakumar, and Sing Yong Lim. "A simulation based analysis on reducing patient waiting time for consultation in an outpatient eye clinic." Proceedings of the 2013 Winter Simulation Conference: Simulation: Making Decisions in a Complex World. IEEE Press, 2013.
Liang, Zhe, Fan Xiao, Xiongwen Qian, Lei Zhou, Xianfei Jin, Xuehua Lu, and Sureshan Karichery. “A column generation-based heuristic for aircraft recovery problem with airport capacity constraints and maintenance flexibility.” Transportation Research Part B: Methodological 113(2018): 70-90.
Huang, Zhouchun, Xiaodong Luo, Xianfei Jin, and Sureshan Karichery. “An iterative cost-driven copy generation approach for aircraft recovery problem.” European Journal of Operational Research 301(2022): 334-348.
Li, Kunpeng, Xuefang Han, Xianfei Jin. “Framework, model and algorithm for the global control of urban automated driving traffic.” Frontiers of Engineering Management 11(2024): 592-619.
