Lillian Yuqian Xu

Yuqian Xu is an assistant professor of Operations Management at Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on understanding worker and consumer behaviors in the banking industry and digital platforms, in which she investigates both theoretical and empirical problems. Her focus of methodology includes applied probability, stochastic modeling, econometrics, and machine learning. In her research, she has been collaborating with different companies, including JD.com, Alibaba, Tencent, Bank of China, etc. She has given talks in different academic, industry, and government conferences and organizations, such as Federal Reserve Bank and China Banking Regulatory Committee.

Her research has been published in journals including Management Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, etc. She has a B.S. in Mathematics from the Kuang Yaming Honors School of Intensive Instruction in Science and Arts at Nanjing University, China. She received her Ph.D. degree (Beta Gamma Sigma) in 2017 from NYU Stern School of Business with the Herman E. Krooss Dissertation Award. Before joining UNC, she was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2017 to 2021.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) New York University (2011 — 2017)
• Bachelor of Science (BS) Nanjing University (2007 — 2011)
• Kyoto University (2009 — 2010)
• Suzhou High School (2004 — 2007)