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Nan Liu

Associate Professor

William S. McKiernan '78 Family Faculty Fellow

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Nan Liu

Contact

Fulton Hall听352C

Telephone: 617-552-8284

Email: nan.liu@bc.edu

Education

  • B.Eng., Tsinghua University
  • M.Eng., National University of Singapore
  • Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Expertise

  • Big Data Analytics
  • Consumer Behavior and Pricing
  • Decision Making & Decision Sciences
  • Service and Healthcare Operations Management

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Curriculum Vitae

Department

Business Analytics

Profile

Professor Nan Liu studies operations management within service industries, including healthcare, retail, and transportation. His current research focuses on the design and control of service systems, particularly in healthcare, where he explores how to effectively match supply with demand for health services to improve access, cost-effectiveness, and quality. Trained as both an operations researcher and a data scientist, he employs stochastic modeling, optimization, and data science methodologies in his work. At 艾可直播 College, Professor Liu teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in operations management. He was a recipient of the 2023 Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award from the Carroll School of Management. Before joining 艾可直播 College, he was on the 艾可直播of the Health Policy and Management Department at Columbia University.

Selected Awards

  • Finalist, POMS College of Humanitarian Operations and Crisis Management (HOCM) Best Paper Competition, 2022
  • First Prize, Chinese Scholars Association for Management Science and Engineering (CSAMSE) Best Paper Competition, 2021
  • Wickham-Skinner Best Paper Award, Production and Operations Management Society, 2020
  • Teaching Star, Carroll School of Management, 艾可直播 College, 2019, 2020
  • First Place,听2019听POMS-HK International Conference Best Student Paper Competition
  • Winner,听2018听IBM Best Student Paper Award for INFORMS Service Science
  • Winner, 2018 POMS College of Healthcare Operations Management (CHOM) Best Paper Competition
  • Third Place Winner, 2017 INFORMS Healthcare Applications Society (HAS) Best Student Paper Competition
  • Honorable Mention, 2017 CSAMSE Best Paper Award
  • 2014 Calderone Junior Faculty Research Award, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
  • Third Place, 2013 INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition
  • George E. Nicholson Award (for the best performance in Ph.D. qualifying exams), Department of Statistics and Operations Research, UNC-Chapel Hill, 2006

Selected Publications

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  • 鈥�.鈥� (With William van Jaarsveld, Shan Wang and Guanlian Xiao.) Management Science, 69 (10). February, 2023.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Christos Zacharias and Mehmet Begen.) Operations Research. August, 2022.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Qingxia Kong, Shan Li, Chung-Piaw Teo and Zhenzhen Yan.) Management Science, 66 (8), 3480-3500. August, 2020.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Shan Wang and Guohua Wan.) Management Science, 66 (2), 667-686. February, 2020.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Peter van de Ven and Bo Zhang.) Management Science, 65 (9), 4280-4298. September, 2019.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Stacey Finkelstein, Margaret Kruk and David Rosenthal.) Management Science, 64 (5), 1975-1996. May, 2018.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Linda Green.) Medical Care Research and Review, 72 (2), 168-186. February, 2015.听

  • 鈥溾�� (With Jacob Feldman, Huseyin Topaloglu and Serhan Ziya.) Operations Research, 62 (4), 794-811. July-August, 2014.听

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Woonghee Tim Huh and Van-Anh Truong.) Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 15 (2), 280-291. January, 2013.

  • 鈥�.鈥� (With Thomas D鈥橝unno.) Health Services Research, 47 (2), 594-613. November, 2011.

Selected Editorial Positions

  • Associate Editor,听Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, 2021-present
  • Associate Editor,听Operations Research, 2020-present
  • Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2019-present
  • Associate Editor, Health Care Management Science, 2019-present
  • Senior Editor,听Production and Operations Management, 2018-present
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