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 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 at the School of Entrepreneurship and Management.

The main research interests of Dr. Liu include queueing theory, dynamic inventory, pricing management in the framework of sustainable supply chain, operations management and analysis with emerging technologies, etc. The main methodologies he uses are operations research (integer programming, stochastic optimization, Markov decision processes, etc.) and game-theoretical modeling techniques.