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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:​​​
  • Ming Hu and Yan Liu. Precommitments in Two-Sided Market Competition. Forthcoming in Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2022. (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)
  • Yan Liu and Dan Zhang. Intra-Consumer Price Discrimination in Credit Refund Policies. Under minor revision at Management Science.
  • Jianghua Wu, Dan Zhang, and Yan Liu. Sales and Price Guarantees under Markovian Pricing. Under review.
  • Meng Li and Yan Liu. Mental Accounting in Revenue Management. To be submitted.
  • Yan Liu, Jingmai Wang*, Yulan Wang, and Dan Zhang. Sizing Coalition Loyalty Programs. To be submitted.

Funding:
  • 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

Teaching:
  • LGT 4115, E-Commerce and Logistics (Undergraduate Compulsory)
                  ---Spring 2023 (scheduled)
  • LGT 4017, Information Systems for Logistics Management (Undergraduate Elective)
                  ---Spring 2023 (scheduled)
  • LGT 5152, Information Systems for Supply Chain Management (MSc Elective)
                  --- Spring 2023 (scheduled), 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)​
                  
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