Rate My Professor Fang Liu

Professor Fang Liu is a Professor of Operations Management at Durham University Business School, having joined the institution in 2023. She previously held positions at the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Nanyang Technological University. Liu obtained her doctoral degree in Operations Management from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, USA. Her research interests encompass supply chain resilience, inventory management, e-commerce and warehouse management, emergency management, mechanism design, and corporate social responsibility and sustainability. She has collaborated with various public, private, and third-sector organizations, including Cummins, Singapore IFRC, and Meide, to improve their operations. Liu has secured multiple competitive research grants as principal investigator or co-principal investigator.

Liu has published extensively in leading academic journals such as Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, and Production and Operations Management. Key publications include 'Optimal Policies and Heuristics To Match Supply With Demand For Online Retailing' (Deng et al., 2024, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management), 'Should Only Popular Products Be Stocked? Warehouse Assortment Selection for E-Commerce Companies' (Li et al., 2024, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management), 'Improving Health Outcomes with Less Cost? Provision of Mobile Clinic in Developing Economies' (Liu et al., 2025, Production and Operations Management), 'Supply Chain Resilience: A Review from the Inventory Management Perspective' (Guo et al., 2025, Fundamental Research), 'Long-Term Partnership for Achieving Efficient Capacity Allocation' (Liu et al., 2019, Operations Research), 'Pre-positioning and Deployment of Reserved Inventories in a Supply Network: Structural Properties' (Guo et al., 2020, Production and Operations Management), and 'Building Supply Chain Resilience through Virtual Stockpile Pooling' (Liu et al., 2016, Production and Operations Management). Her work demonstrates significant contributions to operations management, particularly in enhancing supply chain efficiency and resilience.