Yunan Liu
Associate Professor
- Phone: 919.513.7208
- Email: yunan_liu@ncsu.edu
- Office: 4343 Fitts-Woolard Hall
Yunan Liu joined the department as an Assistant Professor in 2011. His research is focused on queuing theory, applied probability and stochastic modeling, with applications to service systems, especially call centers, healthcare systems, and manufacturing systems.
Research Interests
Yunan Liu’s research interests include methodology area: applied probability, stochastic modeling, queueing theory, fluid approximations
Education
| Degree | Program | School | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ph.D. | Doctor of Philosophy in Industrial Engineering | Columbia University | 2011 |
| MS | Master of Science | Columbia University | 2008 |
| BE | Bachelor of Engineering | Tsinghua University | 2002 |
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Publications
- Energy harvesting cognitive radio networks with strategic users: A two-class queueing model with retrials
- Sun, K., Liu, Y., & Li, K. (2023), COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, 199, 98–112. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.12.017
- Make waiting not to seem like waiting: Capacity management of waiting-area entertainment
- Sun, K., Liu, Y., & Li, X. (2022), OPERATIONS RESEARCH LETTERS, 50(6), 745–752. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orl.2022.10.015
- Pay to activate service in vacation queues
- Wang, Z., Liu, Y., & Fang, L. (2022, March 31), PRODUCTION AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13705
- A discrete-event simulation model for the Bitcoin blockchain network with strategic miners and mining pool managers
- Li, K., Liu, Y., Wan, H., & Huang, Y. (2021), COMPUTERS & OPERATIONS RESEARCH, 134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cor.2021.105365
- A little bit flexibility on headway distribution is enough: Data-driven optimization of subway regenerative energy
- Li, X., Zhang, B., & Liu, Y. (2021), INFORMATION SCIENCES, 554, 276–296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2020.12.030
- Mind your own customers and ignore the others: Asymptotic optimality of a local policy in multi-class queueing systems with customer feedback
- Yang, J., Huang, J., & Liu, Y. (2021, July 25), IISE TRANSACTIONS. https://doi.org/10.1080/24725854.2021.1952358
- Scheduling to Differentiate Service in a Multiclass Service System
- Liu, Y., Sun, X., & Hovey, K. (2021, March 8), OPERATIONS RESEARCH. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2020.2075
- Staffing many-server queues with autoregressive inputs
- Sun, X., & Liu, Y. (2021), NAVAL RESEARCH LOGISTICS, 68(3), 312–326. https://doi.org/10.1002/nav.21960
- CAPTURING MINER AND MINING POOL DECISIONS IN A BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN NETWORK: A TWO-LAYER SIMULATION MODEL
- Li, K., Liu, Y., Wan, H., & Zhang, L. (2020), 2020 WINTER SIMULATION CONFERENCE (WSC), pp. 3152–3163. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC48552.2020.9383980
- Reducing Delay in Retrial Queues by Simultaneously Differentiating Service and Retrial Rates
- Wang, J., Wang, Z., & Liu, Y. (2020), OPERATIONS RESEARCH, 68(6), 1648–1667. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2019.1933
