Biography
Xian Su is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences at Florida International University, where he teaches courses in artificial intelligence, machine learning, operating systems, and algorithm techniques.
He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in Computer Science from the Graduate Center, City University of New York, and his B.S. from Ocean University of China. His doctoral work applied coding theory to distributed machine learning. His current interests center on computing education in the age of AI, from two directions: how students can use AI to deepen learning rather than substitute for it, and how instructors can use it to build teaching tools — interactive visualizations of complex material, custom course applications — that a single instructor can now build and iterate on directly.
In the classroom, he organizes each topic around a recurring "problem–solution–new problem" cycle, so that students learn how a field evolves rather than memorizing isolated results — building analytical reasoning and the confidence to learn independently beyond the course.
Education
- 2024, Ph.D., Computer Science, City University of New York
2022, M.Phil., Computer Science, City University of New York
2016, B.Sc., Information Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China