1993年本科畢業於西北師範大學,1996年碩士畢業於蘭州大學,1999年博士畢業於中國科學院昆明動物研究所。畢業後留校擔任研究員。
- Chen, X.Y., Ferraris, C.J. & Yang, J.X. 2005. A new species of catfish of the genus Clupisoma (Siluriformes: Schilbeidae) from the Salween River, Yunnan, China. Copeia 2005: 566–570.
- Yang, J., Chen, X. & Yang, J. 2008. Clarification of the nomenclatural status of Gymnodiptychus integrigymnatus (Cypriniformes, Cyprinidae). Zootaxa, 1897: 67-68.
- Jiang, Y.-E., Chen, X.-Y. & Yang, J.-X. 2008. Microrasbora Annandale, a new genus record in China, with description of a new species (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Environmental Biology of Fishes 83: 299–304. doi: 10.1007/s10641-008-9336-8
- Du, Li-Na; Yang, Jun-Xia; Chen, Xiao-Yong. A new species of Trochotaia (Caenogastropoda: Viviparidae) from Yunnan, China. Molluscan Research. 2011, 31 (2): 85–89 [2019-03-13]. (原始內容存檔於2019-07-28).
- Chen, X.-Y.; Neely, D.A. 2012: Schistura albirostris, a new nemacheiline loach (Teleostei: Balitoridae) from the Irrawaddy River drainage of Yunnan Province, China. Zootaxa 3586: 222–227.
- Du, L.-N., Chen, X.-Y. & Yang, J.-X. 2013. A catalog of fish specimens preserved within Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Zoological Research 34(4): 345–360.
- Lu, H.-F.; Du, L.-N.; Li, Z.-Q.; Chen, X.-Y.; Yang, J.-X. Morphological analysis of the Chinese Cipangopaludina species (Gastropoda; Caenogastropoda; Viviparidae). Zoological Research. 2014, 35 (6): 510–527 [2019-03-13]. doi:10.13918/j.issn.2095-8137.2014.6.510. (原始內容存檔於2019-07-13) (英語).
- Cheng, C., Pan, X., Chen, X., Li, J., Ma, L. & Yang, J. 2015. A new species of the genus Sinocyclocheilus (Teleostei: Cypriniformes), from Jinshajiang Drainage, Yunnan, China. Cave Research, 1(2): 4.
- Du, L.-N., Lu, Y.-F. & Chen X.-Y., 2015: Yunnanilus qujinensis, a new species of loach from Yunnan, southwest China (Teleostei: Nemacheilidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26 (3): 249–254.
- Liu, S.-W., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. 2016 Paralepidocephalus translucens, a new species of loach from a cave in eastern Yunnan, China (Teleostei: Cobitidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 27(1): 61–66.
- Yang, K-F., Jiang, W-S., Chen, X-Y., Zhou, W. & Yang, J-X. 2016. An integrative approach to reappraising species validity in Pseudexostoma (Teleostei: Sisoridae). Zootaxa 4158(3): 352–366. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4158.3.3.
- Zheng, L.-P., Yang, J.-X. & Chen, X.-Y. 2016. Garra incisorbis, a new species of labeonine from Pearl River basin in Guangxi, China (Teleostei: Cyprinidae). Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters, 26(4) [2015]: 299-303.
- Zheng, L-P., Chen, X-Y. & Yang, J-X. 2016. Molecular systematics of the Labeonini inhabiting the karst regions in southwest China (Teleostei, Cypriniformes). ZooKeys 612: 133-148. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.612.9085.
- Chen, X-Y., Qin, T. & Chen, Z-Y. 2017. Oreoglanis hponkanensis, a new sisorid catfish from north Myanmar (Actinopterygii, Sisoridae). ZooKeys 646: 95–108. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.646.11049.
- Shu, S-S., Brancelj, A., Chen, F-Z., Yang, J-X. & Chen, X-Y. 2017. A new freshwater stygobiotic calanoid (Copepoda: Speodiaptominae) from Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4290(1): 192–200. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4290.1.12.
- Shu, S-S., Rogers, D.C., Chen, X-Y. & Sanoamuang, L-O. 2018. Streptocephalus diversity in Myanmar, with description of a new species (Branchiopoda, Anostraca). ZooKeys 734: 1–12. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.734.21153.