AI and Crypto Expert Professor Xi Chen Affiliates with Compass Lexecon

We are excited to announce that Xi Chen, Professor and Andre Meyer Faculty Fellow at the Department of Technology, Operations, and Statistics at the New York University Stern School of Business, has affiliated with Compass Lexecon. Professor Chen’s work lies at the intersection of machine learning, artificial intelligence, digital platforms, and quantitative economics. His research focuses on issues central to today’s litigation landscape, including digital market competition, online advertising auctions, dynamic and personalized pricing, recommender systems, algorithmic fairness and privacy, generative and agentic AI, and the economics of digital assets, blockchain, and RWA tokenization.

Professor Chen’s research has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Management Science, Journal of Machine Learning Research, and Annals of Applied Statistics. He is the co-author of Web3: Blockchain, the New Economy, and the Self-Sovereign Internet and co-editor of Beyond AI: ChatGPT, Web3, and the Business Landscape of Tomorrow. These books have informed real-world practice in generative and agentic AI, digital marketplaces, auction and pricing algorithms, and decentralized finance, shaping how firms deploy AI-driven decision systems at scale.

Professor Chen has received several awards for his groundbreaking work, including a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30: Science list in 2017, and Poets & Quants named him one of the World's Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors in 2020. He is also an elected fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Previously, Professor Chen served as a Principal Scientist at Amazon Ads, where he led modeling work for global advertising marketplaces, including auction design, delivery optimization, supply forecasting, pacing, bidding strategies, and LLM-enhanced pipelines. He has collaborated on major AI and platform-related projects with Google, Meta, Adobe, Bloomberg, Alibaba, and JPMorgan, covering digital markets, algorithmic recommendations, privacy, and financial forecasting.

Professor Chen received his PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and completed postdoctoral training under the guidance of Professor Michael I. Jordan at the University of California, Berkeley.

Compass Lexecon President and Chairman Daniel R. Fischel commented, “We are thrilled to welcome Professor Chen to our top-notch roster of affiliates. His expertise in machine learning and AI will add excellent value to our client offerings.”

Professor Chen added, “I am delighted to join a firm of Compass Lexecon’s caliber. I look forward to collaborating with its outstanding team of economists on matters involving AI systems, digital platforms, algorithmic pricing, online advertising, and emerging financial technologies.”