{"id":38,"date":"2024-06-30T17:49:35","date_gmt":"2024-06-30T16:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/zhe-liu\/?page_id=38"},"modified":"2025-09-27T16:48:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T15:48:32","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/zhe-liu\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-187\" style=\"margin-right: 50px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/zhe-liu\/files\/2024\/07\/Zhe_Liu_CBS-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Profile photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imperial.ac.uk\/business-school\/faculty-research\/academic-areas\/analytics-operations\/people\/\">Analytics and Operations area<\/a> at Imperial Business School.<\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:zhe.liu@imperial.ac.uk\">zhe.liu@imperial.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Research Interests<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>Revenue management: operations and design of platforms, assortment optimization<\/li>\n<li>Supply chain management: multi-sourcing, inventory management<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Education<\/h2>\n<h5>Columbia University, Columbia Business School<\/h5>\n<p>PhD in Operations Management, 2019<br \/>\nAdvisors: Awi Federgruen, Costis Maglaras<\/p>\n<h5>Tsinghua University<\/h5>\n<p>BS in Industrial Engineering, 2013<\/p>\n<h2>Honors and Awards<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>1st Place, INFORMS Service Science Best Cluster Paper Award, 2024<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place, CSAMSE Best Paper Award, 2024<\/li>\n<li>Management Science Meritorious Service Award, 2022<\/li>\n<li>M&amp;SOM Meritorious Service Award, 2022<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place, POMS-HK Best Student Paper Competition, 2019<\/li>\n<li>Finalist, George Nicholson Student Paper Competition, 2018<\/li>\n<li>2nd Place, POMS College of SCM Student Paper Competition, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Doctoral Fellow Presentation at Deming Cup Award Ceremony, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Chazen Institute for Global Business Research Award, 2018<\/li>\n<li>Deming Doctoral Research Fellowship, 2015 &amp; 2016<\/li>\n<li>Doctoral Fellowship, Columbia Business School, 2013&#8211;2018<\/li>\n<li>Tsinghua University Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Beijing Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award, 2013<\/li>\n<li>President Jiang Nan-Xiang Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2012<\/li>\n<li>1st Place, 30th Tsinghua Challenge Cup Research and Innovation Contest, 2012<\/li>\n<li>Changhong Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2011<\/li>\n<li>Outstanding Prize (Top 4\/8000) in the 27th National College Physics Contest, 2011<\/li>\n<li>OOCL Scholarship, Tsinghua University, 2010<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\"><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Analytics and Operations area at Imperial Business School. Email: zhe.liu@imperial.ac.uk Research Interests Revenue management: operations and design of 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1514,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-38","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>About - Zhe Liu<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/zhe-liu\/about\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"About - Zhe Liu\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I am an Assistant Professor of Operations Management in the Analytics and Operations area at Imperial Business School. 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