Research Area
Service Operations Management, Platform Operations, Sustainable Supply Chain Management
Biography
Dr. Baolong Liu obtained his bachelor's (2011) and master's (2014) degrees both in the Department of Industrial Engineering at Tsinghua University. In September of 2018, he earned his Ph.D. degree at ESSEC Business School (École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales) in France. Right after, he began to work as a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Supply Chain Management, W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. He joined ShanghaiTech University in May 2020. He is an assistant professor and PI at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management.
Research Interests
The main research interests of Dr. Liu include service operations and sustainable operations & supply chain management. The main methodologies he uses are operations research (integer programming, stochastic optimization, Markov decision processes, etc.) and game-theoretical modeling techniques. He serves as an ad hoc reviewer for several academic journals such as Production & Operations Management and European Journal of Operational Research.
Courses
Introduction to Operations Research, Operations Research I, Systems Engineering, Management Science, Production and Operations Management, Dynamic Programming, Stochastic Modeling and Dynamic Programming (graduate), and Operations Management, etc.
Publications and Pedagogical Outcomes
Journal Publications：
1. Liu, B., Wang, R., Wang, X., & Bao, L. (2026). Street orders as an outside option: Incentives and information disclosure of taxi-hailing platforms. Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.
2. Yan, R., Chen, Y., Liu, B.*, & Wang, X. (2025). Promoting carpooling on car-hailing platforms: Order allocation and motivating subsidy. Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, 199, 103282.
3. Liu, W., Sha, Y., Zhao, Y., & Liu, B.* (2025). Flexible capacity rationing in consignment-selling cold warehouse. International Journal of Production Research, 63(23), 9348–9369.
4. Liu, B., & De Giovanni, P. (2025). Green process innovation through Industry 4.0 technologies and supply chain coordination. Annals of Operations Research, 349(2), 767–802.
5. Jiang, EJ., Liu, B.*, & Ye, R. (2025). Foreign institutional investors and share pledging: Evidence from China's stock market openness reform. Global Finance Journal, 101122.
6. Liu, B., & Wang, W. (2023). Live commerce retailing with online influencers: Two business models. International Journal of Production Economics, 255, 108715.
7. Liu, B., & Papier, F. (2022). Remanufacturing of multi-component systems with product substitution. European Journal of Operational Research, 301(3), 896-911.
Conference Papers：
1. Gao, S., Wang, J., Xiong, J., Jiang, Y., Fang, Y., Hu, Q., Liu, B., & Li, Q. (2026). An exploratory visual analytics framework for partner selection in supply chains through LLM-driven multi-agent simulation. In 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’26). forthcoming.
2. Liu, Y., Wang, W., Liu, B., & Whinston A.B. (2022). Twisting the toll: Electric vehicles and information provision. ICIS 2022 Proceedings. 17.
Working Papers：
1. From frustration to engagement: Ancillary services in queues
2. Permission or prohibition: Would a return policy reduce the speculation for functional collectibles?
3. Online luxury retailing with authentication: Honesty, distinguishability and misauthentication
4. Leveraging pre-sales for logistics efficiency: When is it a valuable strategy?
Pedagogical Outcomes：
1. 2020 China Supply Chain and Operations Management Short-vedio Teaching Competition
2. Award of Excellence in 1st teaching innovation competition (group), Shanghai
3. 2022 12th MathorCup College Mathematical Modeling Competition (1st and 3rd prizes)
4. 2022 3rd Huashu Cup Mathematical Modeling Competition (3rd prize)
5. 2023-2025 MCM/ICM (M, H, and S prizes)
