Nan Liu
Professor and William S. McKiernan '78 Family Faculty Fellow
Biography
Professor Nan Liu studies operations management within service industries, including healthcare, retail, and transportation. His current research focuses on the design and control of service systems, particularly in healthcare, where he explores how to effectively match supply with demand for health services to improve access, cost-effectiveness, and quality. Trained as both an operations researcher and a data scientist, he employs stochastic modeling, optimization, and data science methodologies in his work. At Boston College, Professor Liu teaches undergraduate and MBA courses in operations management. He was a recipient of the 2023 Coughlin Distinguished Teaching Award from the Carroll School of Management. Before joining Boston College, he was on the faculty of the Health Policy and Management Department at Columbia University.