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Shan Liu joined the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering in 2013. He has a Ph.D. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University (2013), an M.S. in Technology Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2008), and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin (2006). His research interests focus on designing and evaluating healthcare interventions to improve patient health and enable cost-effective care delivery. He develops methods for sequential decision making, decision analytics, and systems modeling to optimize healthcare systems. His work advances mathematical modeling methods that support complex technology adoption and inform policy decisions surrounding disease prevention and management. Dr. Liu has received multiple grants from the National Science Foundation to design an integrated decision framework for depression monitoring and to optimize vaccination incentives to prevent infectious disease outbreaks. He has collaborated with various institutions, including UW Medicine Global Health, Stanford Center for Primary Care Outcomes Research, and Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute. He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM), and the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE).
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