Xie Yi was born in 1981. He received his bachelor’s degree in 2004 and doctorate in 2010, both from the Department of Astronomy at Nanjing University. From 2008 to 2010, he was funded by the National Scholarship Council and went to study at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the University of Missouri in Columbia. Xie joined the faculty at Nanjing University in 2011.
　　He is in charge of projects supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the General Projects of the Basic Research Program of Jiangsu Province, the John Templeton Foundation of the United States and the New Vision Project of the National Astronomical Observatory of China. Currently, he serves as a member of the ninth committee of the Chinese Astronomical Society’s Astronomical Nomenclature Examination and Approval Committee, and an editorial board member of Astronomy Enthusiast. As the first author and the second author, he won the third prize of the Ninth Nanjing Natural Science Excellent Academic Paper Award (2011), and as the second author, he won the Young Excellent Academic Paper Award of the Eighth Annual Academic Conference of the Deep Space Exploration Technology Professional Committee of the Chinese Society of Astronautics.
　　In his spare time, Xie devoted himself to the translation of international astronomical articles, with a total of more than 100 articles and participated in the translation of a popular science book on astronomy.

　　General Astronomy

　　His research focuses on gravity and relativity, including relativistic astrometry and celestial mechanics, relativistic high-precision basic reference frame and metrology, relativistic gravity experimental model, high-precision measurement theory and application in deep space exploration, gauge invariant cosmological perturbation and gravitational wave effect.