About

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I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Analytics and Operations area at Imperial College Business School.

Email: zhe.liu@imperial.ac.uk

Research Interests

    • Revenue management: operations and design of sharing economy platforms, assortment optimization
    • Supply chain management: multi-sourcing, inventory management

Education

Columbia University, Columbia Business School

PhD in Operations Management, 2019
Advisors: Awi Federgruen, Costis Maglaras

Tsinghua University

BS in Industrial Engineering, 2013
Advisor: Max Shen

Honors and Awards

    • 1st Place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2024
    • 2nd Place, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2024
    • Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2022
    • M&SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2022
    • 2nd Place, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2019
    • Finalist, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2018
    • 2nd Place, POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition, 2018
    • Doctoral Fellow Presentation at Deming Cup Award Ceremony, 2018
    • Chazen Institute for Global Business Research Award, 2018
    • Deming Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2015 & 2016

Services

    • Journal referee for Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Production & Operations Management, Transportation Science and Transportation Research Part B
    • Guest Associate Editor for Naval Research Logistics
    • External reviewer for the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong
    • PhD Director, Analytics & Operations area
    • Member of the INFORMS RMP Jeff McGill Student Paper Award Committee, 2024
    • Reviewer for the MSOM Service SIG Conference, 2022, 2024
    • Reviewer for the MSOM Supply Chain Management SIG Conference, 2020 — 2022
    • Judge for the POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2023 — 2024
    • Judge for the MSOM Student Paper Competition, 2024
    • Judge for the CSAMSE Best Paper Competition, 2024
    • Co-organizer of the 2023 INFORMS RMP Annual Conference