Dekai Xiao is a visiting graduate researcher at the MIT Sociotechnical Systems Research Center. His research focuses on the application of natural language processing (NLP) for requirements engineering. He is passionate about the current advances of artificial intelligence and technology startups. Before joining MIT, Dekai graduated from RWTH Aachen University (Germany) in Industrial Engineering, holds a seconds master’s degree from Tsinghua University (China), and worked for companies such as McKinsey & Company and BMW.