Zugang (Leo) Liu

Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Department of Business and Economics

Pennsylvania State University - Hazleton

EDUCATION	Ph.D. in Business Administration with concentration in Management Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 2008 B.E. Tsinghua University, China, 2000
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS	An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England (with A. Nagurney) (2009), Naval Research Logistics 56, 7, 600-624. Stock Market Crashes, Firm Characteristics, and Stock Returns (with J. Wang, G. Meric, and I. Meric) (2009), Journal of Banking and Finance 33, 9, 1563-1574. Dynamic Electric Power Supply Chains and Transportation Networks: An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation (with A. Nagurney, M. Cojocaru, and P. Daniele) (2007), Transportation Research E: Logistics and Transportation Review, 43, 624-646. Financial Networks with Intermediation and Transportation Network Equilibria: A Supernetwork Equivalence and Reinterpretation of the Equilibrium Conditions with Computations (with A. Nagurney) (2007), Computational Management Science 4, 3, 243-281. Sustainable Supply Chain Networks and Transportation (with A.  Nagurney and T. Woolley) (2007), International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 1, 29-51. Modeling of Electric Power Supply Chain Networks with Fuel Suppliers via Variational Inequalities (with D. Matsypura and A. Nagurney) (2007), International Journal of Emerging Electric Power Systems 8, 1, Article 5. Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Transformation (with K. Wu, A. Nagurney and J. Stranlund) (2006), Transportation Research D: Transport and Environment, 11, 171-190. Optimal Endogenous Carbon Taxes for Electric Power Supply Chains with Power Plants (with A. Nagurney and T. Woolley) (2006), Mathematical and Computer Modelling 44, 899-916.
BOOK CHAPTER	An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation of Supply Chain Networks with Time-Varying Demands (with Anna Nagurney), in Network Science, Nonlinear Science and Dynamic Game Theory Applied to the Study of Infrastructure Systems, Terry L. Friesz, Editor, Springer, Berlin, Germany  (2007) pp 267-302.
INVITED TALK	Advances in Evolutionary Variational Inequality Modeling of Electric Power Supply Chains with Real-Life Applications (with A. Nagurney), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Seattle, Washington, November 4-7, 2007.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT CONFERENCES	An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation of Supply Chain Networks with Time-Varying Demands (with A. Nagurney), 5^th Annual Florida Supply Chain and Logistics Engineering Conference, Gainesville, Florida, February 25-26, 2006. An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation of Supply Chain Networks with Time-Varying Demands (with A. Nagurney), 17^th Annual POMS Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April 28-May 1, 2006. Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Transformation (with K. Wu, A. Nagurney, and J. Stranlund), 17^th Annual POMS Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, April 28-May 1, 2006. Dynamic Electric Power Supply Chains and Traffic Networks as Evolutionary Variational Inequalities (with A. Nagurney, M.-G. Cojocaru, and P. Daniele), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5-8, 2006. Financial Networks and Transportation Network Equilibria (with A. Nagurney), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5-8, 2006. Optimal Endogenous Carbon Taxes for Electric Power Supply Chains with Power Plants (with A. Nagurney and T. Woolley), INFORMS Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5-8, 2006.
	Multiperiod Competitive Supply Chain Networks with Inventorying and a Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulation (with A. Nagurney), 18^th Annual POMS Conference, Dallas, Texas, May 4-7, 2007. Sustainable Supply Chain Networks and Transportation (with A.  Nagurney and T. Woolley), 18^th Annual POMS Conference, Dallas, Texas, May 4-7, 2007. Sustainable Supply Chain Networks and Transportation (with A.  Nagurney and T. Woolley), INFORMS International Conference, Puerto Rico, July 8-11, 2007. An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England, INFORMS Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, October 12-15, 2008.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE	Instructor, Management Science University of Massachusetts at Amherst Instructor, Operations Management University of Massachusetts at Amherst Instructor, Business Statistics Penn State University Hazleton Instructor, Business Logistics Management Penn State University Hazleton Instructor, Supply Chain Management Penn State University Hazleton SAP related topics are covered in this course.
EXTERNAL SERVICE	Referee for: European Journal of Operational Research Networks International Transactions in Operations Research Netnomics IBM Journal of Research and Development The Handbook of Technology Management
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP	INFORMS, Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences DSI, Decision Sciences Institute