Working Papers
Data-Driven Aircraft Assignment to Minimize Delay Propagation, with Vinayak Deshpande and Vidyadhar Kulkarni. R&R at Management Science, 2026.
Joint Admission and Service Rate Control of an Unobservable Queue, with Vidyadhar Kulkarni. Major Revision at Production and Operations Management, 2026.
Dynamic Redeployment of Nurses Across Hospitals: A Sample Robust Optimization Approach, with Tianchun Li, Mengshi Lu, and Pengyi Shi. Major Revision at Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 2026.
A Rational Decision Model for the Drivers of On-Demand Food Delivery Platforms, with Vidyadhar Kulkarni. Under Review at Management Science, 2026.
Fairness-Constrained Workload Nurse-Patient Assignment: Incorporating Heterogeneous Patient Needs, with Mengshi Lu, and Pengyi Shi, Work in Progress, 2026.
Publication
Liu, Wei, Mengshi Lu, and Pengyi Shi (2024, December). Patient Assignment and Prioritization for Multi-Stage Care with Reentrance. In 2024 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) (pp. 940-951). IEEE.
Liu, Wei, and Vidyadhar G. Kulkarni (2024). Admission Control in Multi-server Systems Under Binary Reward Structure. Production and Operations Management, 33(7), 1457-1474.
Mao, Zhaofang, Wei Liu, and Bo Feng (2019). "Opaque distribution channels for service providers with asymmetric capacities: Posted-price mechanisms." International Journal of Production Economics 215: 112-120.
Feng, Bo, Wei Liu, and Zhaofang Mao (2018). "Use of opaque sales channels in addition to traditional channels by service providers." International Journal of Production Research 56(10): 3369-3383.