Zhe Liu

Zhe Liu joined Imperial College Business School as an Assistant Professor in 2019. He obtained his PhD in Operations Management from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor's in Industrial Engineering from Tsinghua University.

Zhe's main research interests are in revenue management and pricing, supply chain management and data analytics.

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Columbia Business School (2013 — 2019)
• Bachelor of Science (BS) Tsinghua University (2009 — 2013)

Companies

• Assistant Professor Imperial College Business School (2019)
• Teaching Assistant Columbia Business School (2014 — 2019)
• Research Scientist Intern Amazon (2018 — 2018)
• Instructor Columbia Business School (2015 — 2018)
• Student Researcher Caterpillar Logistics Services, Inc. (2012 — 2013)
• Summer Research Trainee University of Michigan (2012 — 2012)
• Student Researcher Caterpillar Logistics Services, Inc. (2011 — 2012)

Journal Publications

• Ride-Hailing Networks with Strategic Drivers: The Impact of Platform Control Capabilities on Performance, MSOM, major revision. (with Philipp Af eche and Costis Maglaras) An interactive visualization of NYC taxi flows (web link): NYC Taxi Map
• Synthesis and Generalization of Structural Results in Inventory Management: A Generalized Convexity Property, Mathematics of Operations Research, 45(2): 547-575, 2020 (with Awi Federgruen and Lijian Lu)
• Dual Sourcing under Capacity Limits, Fixed Costs and Salvage Opportunities, MSOM, major revision. (with Awi Federgruen and Lijian Lu)
• Sourcing in an Increasingly Volatile World: Offshoring, Onshoring or Both? submitted to Operations Research. (with Awi Federgruen and Jiaqi Lu)

Other Publications

• Inventory Strategies for Service-Sensitive Demands, Undergraduate Thesis, 2013. (Advisor: Zuo-Jun Max Shen)
• Service Parts Demand Forecasting and Multi-Echelon Inventory Network Design, Research Report for Caterpillar Logistics, 2013. (with K. Wang, W. Zhu and X. Zhao)
• Intermittent Demand Forecasting of Slow Moving Parts, Tsinghua University Student Journal, 4(2): 34-49, 2012. (with Jialing Tao and Yi Yang)

Honors and Awards

• 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