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Yan Liu
Assistant Professor
Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies
​Faculty of Business
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Email Address: yan.y.liu@polyu.edu.hk
Research Interest:
  • Revenue management and pricing
  • Interface between operations management and marketing
  • Social operations management

Employment:
  • Department of Logistics and Maritime Studies, Faculty of Business, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
    • Assistant Professor, 2019-Present
  • College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University
    • Assistant Professor, 2016-2019
  • School of Information Management and Engineering, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
    • Visiting Scholar, 2015-2016

Education:
  • Ph.D., Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Minnesota, Oct 2015 
                          Advisors: William L. Cooper, Zizhuo Wang
  • M.S., Management Science and Engineering, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, 2010
  • B.S., Information Management and Information System, Beijing Information Science and Technology University, 2007

Publication:​​​
  • Yan Liu and Dan Zhang. Intra-Consumer Price Discrimination with Credit Refund Policies. Forthcoming in Management Science, 2023.
  • Ming Hu and Yan Liu. Precommitments in Two-Sided Market Competition. Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 25(2), 704-718, 2023. (Authors are listed alphabetically)
  • Yan Liu, Yacheng Sun, and Dan Zhang. An Analysis of "Buy X, Get One Free" Reward Programs. Operations Research, 69(6), 1823-1841, 2021.
  • Yan Liu, William L. Cooper, and Zizhuo Wang. Information Provision and Pricing in the Presence of Consumer Search Costs. Production and Operations Management, 28(7), 1603-1620, 2019.
  • Ming Hu, Yan Liu, and Wenbin Wang. Socially Beneficial Rationality: the Value of Strategic Farmers, Social Entrepreneurs, and For-Profit Firms in Crop Planting Decisions. Management Science, 65(8), 3654-3672, 2019. (Authors are listed alphabetically)
                --Curated in INFORMS Editor's Cut | Agribusiness
                --2017 CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award, Honorable Mention 
  • Yan Liu and William L. Cooper. Optimal Dynamic Pricing with Patient Customers. Operations Research, 63(6), 1307-1319, 2015.

Working Papers: (* denotes a PhD student I work with)
  • Jianghua Wu, Dan Zhang, and Yan Liu. Sales and Price Guarantees under Markovian Pricing. Under 2nd round review.
  • Meng Li and Yan Liu. Mental Accounting in Allocating Capacity. Under review.
  • Yan Liu, Jingmai Wang*, Yulan Wang, and Dan Zhang. Sizing Coalition Loyalty Programs. Under review.
  • Xiao Chen, Yan Liu, Yicheng Liu*, and Zizhuo Wang. Simultaneous vs Sequential: Optimal Assortment Recommendation in Multi-Channel Retailing. Under review. 

Funding:
  • Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund, "Optimal Dynamic Pricing with Consumer Satiation Effects", $414,844, PI, 01/2024-12/2025
  • Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund, "A Model of Coalition Reward Programs", $523,990, PI, 01/2023-12/2024
  • Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund, "A Model of Credit Refund Policies", $417,139, PI, 01/2021-12/2022
  • Hong Kong RGC Direct Allocation Grant, "Price Discrimination in Reward Programs", $200,000, PI, 07/2021-06/2023
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China, "Information Provision and Pricing in the Presence of Consumer Search Costs", CNY 180,000, PI, 01/2018-12/2020
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Teaching:
  • LGT 5429, Global Risk and Decision Analysis (MSc Elective)                 
                  --- Spring 2024
  • LGT 4115, E-Commerce and Logistics (Undergraduate Compulsory)
                  --- Spring 2024, Spring 2023 (4.4/5) 
  • LGT 4017, Information Systems for Logistics Management (Undergraduate Elective)
                  --- Spring 2024, Spring 2023 (4.5/5) 
  • LGT 5152, Information Systems for Supply Chain Management (MSc Elective)
                  --- Spring 2022 (4.7/5, 4.6/5), Spring 2021 (4.6/5)
  • LGT 4101, Practice of Management Decision Analysis (Undergraduate Elective) 
                  --- Spring 2022 (4.7/5)
  • LGT 5122, Applications of Decision Making Models (MBA Elective)
                  --- Spring 2021 (4.4/5)​
                  
​Prospective Students:
  • I am always looking for self-motivated Ph.D. students with solid mathematical background and strong interests in operations management. Students with a bachelor/master degree in mathematics, applied mathematics, statistics, or information and computing science are welcome to email me with your CV and transcript (knowledge in operations management is not required). Applications for research assistant/postdoctoral fellow are also welcome. Competitive financial support will be provided (please see https://www.polyu.edu.hk/gs/prospective-students/fellowship-scholarship-schemes/).​​