He earned his Ph.D. in Operations Management from Carnegie Mellon University in 2014, and his B.S. in Information Systems from Fudan University in 2008. Xin studies the problems related to competition and coopetition in global supply chain networks. His research applies cooperative game theory, non-cooperative game theory and theory of social and economic networks to the area of supply chain management, especially supply chain security, decentralized distribution systems and supplier management.