Yunan Liu
Associate Professor
- Phone: 919.513.7208
- Email: yunan_liu@ncsu.edu
- Office: 4343 Fitts-Woolard Hall
- Website: https://yliu48.github.io/
Yunan Liu joined the department as an assistant professor in 2011. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. He was born and grew up in Beijing, China, where he attended the number 4 high school. In 2024, Liu moved to an adjunct faculty position so he could join Amazon as an Amazon Scholar, where he has worked closely with Amazon’s Customer Service Department and Inventory Planning Control Department.
In his free time Liu enjoys running, rock climbing and basketball. he also enjoys making music with a guitar and ocarina.
Research Interests
Liu’s research interests include stochastic modeling, applied probability, simulation, queueing theory, optimal control and reinforcement learning, with applications to customer contact centers, healthcare, supply chain and transportation systems. He has been published in journals including:
- Operations Research
- Manufacturing & Service Operations Management
- Production and Operations Management
- INFORMS Journal on Computing
- IISE Transactions
- Naval Research Logistics
- Stochastic Systems
- European Journal of Operational Research
- Queueing Systems
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Operations Research | Columbia University | 2011 |
| MS | Operations Research | Columbia University | 2008 |
| BS | Electrical Engineering | Tsinghua University | 2002 |
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Publications
- Mail back or in-store dropoff? Optimal design of product-exchange policies in omnichannel retailing systems
- Sun, K., Liu, Y., & Li, X. (2024), OMEGA-INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE, 125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.omega.2023.103024
- An Online Learning Approach to Dynamic Pricing and Capacity Sizing in Service Systems
- Chen, X., Liu, Y., & Hong, G. (2023, June 12), OPERATIONS RESEARCH. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.612
- An Online Learning Approach to Dynamic Pricing and Capacity Sizing in Service Systems
- Chen, X., Liu, Y., & Hong, G. (2023, June 12), OPERATIONS RESEARCH. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.0612
- Improving Workers' Musculoskeletal Health During Human-Robot Collaboration Through Reinforcement Learning
- Xie, Z., Lu, L., Wang, H., Su, B., Liu, Y., & Xu, X. (2023, May 22), HUMAN FACTORS, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1177/00187208231177574
- Optimal interventions of infectious disease
- Sun, X., & Liu, Y. (2023, April 19), NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS. https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.22114
- Energy harvesting cognitive radio networks with strategic users: A two-class queueing model with retrials
- Sun, K., Liu, Y., & Li, K. (2023), COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, 199, 98–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.12.017
- Make waiting not to seem like waiting: Capacity management of waiting-area entertainment
- Sun, K., Liu, Y., & Li, X. (2022), OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS, 50(6), 745–752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2022.10.015
- Pay to activate service in vacation queues
- Wang, Z., Liu, Y., & Fang, L. (2022, March 31), PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13705
- Routing and staffing in emergency departments: A multiclass queueing model with workload dependent service times
- Nambiar, S., Mayorga, M. E., & Liu, Y. (2023), IISE TRANSACTIONS ON HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS ENGINEERING, 13(1), 46–61. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725579.2022.2100522
- A discrete-event simulation model for the Bitcoin blockchain network with strategic miners and mining pool managers
- Li, K., Liu, Y., Wan, H., & Huang, Y. (2021), COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH, 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105365
