Dr. Xiaoming Xi is Director at the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority, leading the Assessment Technology and Research Division, the Education Assessment Services Division and the International and Professional Examinations Division. Previously she was Executive Director of New Product Development at ETS in the U.S. responsible for Global Education and Workforce products and Senior Director in R&D overseeing the research and development of global and U.S. language tests and assessments. Her research leadership has impacted global large-scale tests such as TOEFL, TOEIC and other higher education tests as well as Hong Kong’s tests for college admissions, teacher certification and students’ progress monitoring.
A strong contributor to the educational assessment community, Xiaoming has been a Council Member of the International Test Commission (ITC) since 2023. She has also served on the Executive Board of the International Language Testing Association (ILTA), chaired various ILTA award committees, and currently chairs the ILTA By-Laws Committee.
Xiaoming has been on the Editorial Board of several leading assessment journals, and has won multiple awards, including the 2015 Top 25 Women in Higher Education and Beyond, the Sage/ILTA Best Book Award, the ILTA Best Language Testing Paper Award, the ETS Scientist Award, the ETS Presidential Award, etc.
Xiaoming has published widely in assessment theories and practices including validity, fairness, construct definition, assessment design, human and automated scoring, and AI technology. She is best known for her work in the development and research of AI engines, ethical and responsible use of AI in assessment and learning, assessment validity theories and fairness frameworks, and evaluation frameworks for adaptive learning solutions. She has guest edited two special issues “Automated Scoring and Feedback Systems” and “Advancing Language Assessment with AI and ML” for Language Testing and Language Assessment Quarterly respectively and has multiple patents in applications of AI.