FTI Consulting Appoints Dr. Xi Chen to Compass Lexecon
FTI Consulting announced that Dr. 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 its subsidiary Compass Lexecon. Dr. Chen, who is based in New York, is an award-winning expert in machine learning, artificial intelligence, quantitative economics and digital platforms. He has collaborated on major AI and platform-related projects with Google, Meta, Adobe, Bloomberg, Alibaba and JPMorganChase, covering digital markets, algorithmic recommendation, privacy and financial forecasting. In his role at Compass Lexecon, Dr. Chen will work closely 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 tokenization of real-world assets.
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