Dr. Liu is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration at the Pennsylvania State University Hazleton Campus. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Management Science and a minor in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2008.

He received a BS in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University, China, and an MS in Transportation Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

His research interests include: supply chain networks, transportation networks, telecommunication networks, electric power networks as well as financial networks. In particular, he studies the dynamics of such networks and their interrelationships.

In 2005-2006 Leo was President of the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Previously, he was the webmaster for the chapter and assumed this task again in late Spring 2007.  In 2007 and in 2008, Leo received an Outstanding Service Award from the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter.

Leo was selected and took part in the Future Academician's Colloquium at the November 2006 INFORMS Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA.

In 2008, Leo was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma, the Business Honor Society.
 
Selected Publications:

An Integrated Electric Power Supply Chain and Fuel Market Network Framework: Theoretical Modeling with Empirical Analysis for New England
Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney, to appear in Naval Research Logistics (2009).

Financial Networks with Intermediation and Transportation Network Equilibria: A Supernetwork Equivalence and Reinterpretation of the Equilibrium Conditions with Computations
Zugang Liu and Anna Nagurney, Computational Management Science 4: (2007) pp 243-281.

Sustainable Supply Chain Networks and Transportation
Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley, The International Journal of Sustainable Transportation 1: (2007) pp 29-51.

Modeling Generator Power Plant Portfolios and Pollution Taxes in Electric Power Supply Chain Networks: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Transformation
Kai Wu, Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and John Stranlund, Transportation Research D 11: (2006) pp 171-190.

Optimal Endogenous Carbon Taxes for Electric Power Supply Chains with Power Plants
Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, and Trisha Woolley, Mathematical and Computer Modelling 44: (2006) pp 899-916.

Dynamic Electric Power Supply Chains and Transportation Networks: An Evolutionary Variational Inequality Formulation
Anna Nagurney, Zugang Liu, Monica-Gabriela Cojocaru, and Patrizia Daniele, Transportation Research E 43: (2007) pp 624-646.

Transportation Network Equilibrium Reformulations of Electric Power Networks with Computations
Anna Nagurney and Zugang Liu

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