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Jiaming Xu

Associate Professor of Business Administration
Fuqua School of Business

Overview


Jiaming Xu is an Associate Professor in the Decision Sciences area.  His research focus is on machine learning and networks.  Professor Xu develops a fundamental understanding and powerful methodologies for inferring information from data to enable downstream data-driven decision-making at scale. He is also designing new models and algorithms for improving decision-making efficiency under uncertainties and various resource constraints and addressing emerging privacy and security issues. Professor Xu teaches Modern Analytics (Deep Learning), Decision Analytics & Modeling in the MQM program, and Decision Models in the MBA and WEMBA programs at Fuqua.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


Associate Professor of Business Administration · 2025 - Present Fuqua School of Business
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences · 2018 - Present Duke Institute for Brain Sciences, University Institutes and Centers

Recent Publications


Random Graph Matching at Otter’s Threshold via Counting Chandeliers

Journal Article Operations Research · April 18, 2025 Network alignment or graph matching—figuring out how vertices across different networks correspond to each other—is a key challenge in many fields, from protecting online privacy to mapping biological data, improving computer vision, and even unde ... Full text Cite
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Recent Grants


CAREER: Federated Learning: Statistical Optimality and Provable Security

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2022 - 2027

CIF: Medium: Collaborative Research: Learning in Networks: Performance Limits and Algorithms

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2019 - 2023

BIGDATA:F: Collaborative Research: Mining for Graphs and High-Dimensional Data: Achieving the Limits

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2018 - 2021

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Education, Training & Certifications


University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign · 2014 Ph.D.
University of Texas, Austin · 2011 M.S.
Tsinghua University (China) · 2009 B.S.E.