Lindong Liu（刘林冬）
School of Management
University of Science and Technology of China
	Management Building, Rm. 711		Phone: +86 0551-63600847
	Jinzhai Road 96, Hefei, China		Email: ldliu@ustc.edu.cn
Academic Experience
University of Science and Technology of China
School of Management, Associate Professor Assistant Professor			2019.07~present 2016.03~2019.06
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
School of Business, Research Fellow			2015.09~2016.02
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
School of Engineering, Visiting Scholar			2015.01~2015.06
Education
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR
Ph.D. in Operations Research, Department of IELM, School of Engineering					2011~2015
Nanjing University, China
B.E. in Control Science and Engineering, School of Management and Engineering					2007~2011
Research Interests
Game Theory, Sharing Economy, Integer Programming, Mathematical Modeling
Awards and Honors
· National Scholarship, China					2008
· Excellent Undergraduate Student Representative, Jiangsu Province, China					2011
· Best Teaching Assistant Award, IELM, HKUST (5 times)					2011~2014
· Best Teaching Assistant Representative, HKUST · First Prize in the 8^th China Meeting on Game Theory and Its Applications					2013 2018
Teaching Experience
· Teaching Assistant		Routing and Fleeting Management, UG, HKUST		2011~2014
· Teaching Assistant		Global Supply Chain Management, UG, HKUST		2011~2014
· Instructor		Introduction to Dynamic Systems, UG, USTC		since 2018
· Instructor		Data, Models and Decisions, IMBA, USTC		since 2018
Publications and Working Papers (* stands for the corresponding author)
· Lindong Liu*, Xiangtong Qi. Proceedings in ICSSSM, 2014 11th International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Network Disruption Recovery for Multiple Pairs of Shortest Paths. pdf
· Lindong Liu, Xiangtong Qi and Zhou Xu. INFORMS Journal on Computing, 2016, 28(4): 687-702.
Computing Near-Optimal Cost Allocations for Cooperative Games by Lagrangian Relaxation. pdf ec
· Lindong Liu, Xiangtong Qi and Zhou Xu. Operations Research, 2018, 66(5): 1362-1735.
Simultaneous Penalization and Subsidization for Stabilizing Grand Cooperation. pdf ec
· Gongbing Bi, Botao Geng, Lindong Liu*. European Journal of Operational Research, 2019, forthcoming.
Fixed and Flexible Funding Mechanisms in Reward-based Crowdfunding. pdf
· Yunshen Yang, Gongbing Bi, Lindong Liu*. Minor Revision at European Journal of Operational Research.
Profit Allocation in Investment-Based Crowdfunding. pdf
Research Grants
· National Natural Science Foundation of China (Youth 71701192), PI,				2018-2020
Title: To Stabilize Grand Coalitions in Unbalanced Cooperative Game, RMB190,000
· Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China, PI,				2017-2018
Title: Subsidies and Penalties in Cooperative Games, RMB50,000
· Departmental Start-up Funding, PI, RMB200,000				2016-2018
· National Natural Science Foundation of China (Key 71731010), Co-I				2018-2022
Title: Social Operations Management: Theory, Method and Application, RMB2,450,000
Research Students Supervised
· Chao Zhang, MSc, USTC, 2016-2019: currently working at SINOTRANS
· Yuqian Zhou, PhD, USTC, 2016-2021 (expected), jointly supervised with Gongbing Bi
· Hongwei Xuan , PhD, USTC, 2017-2022 (expected)
· Zikang Li, MSc, USTC, 2018-2021 (expected)
· Weiqian Lu, MSc, USTC, 2018-2021 (expected) · Zhendong Li, MSc, USTC, 2019-2022 (expected) · Xucheng Liu, MSc, USTC, 2019-2022 (expected) · Zhenyu Wu, MSc, USTC, 2019-2022 (expected), jointly supervised with Yugang Yu
· Other research students collaborated: Yalei Fei, PhD, USTC, 2013-2018: currently a postdoctoral fellow at Bank of Zhengzhou Xu Tian, PhD, USTC, 2016-2021 (expected) Botao Geng, MSc, USTC, 2016-2019: currently working at China Merchants Securities Yunshen Yang, MSc, USTC, 2016-2019: currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree at UNSW · MBA Students (Year of Graduation): Wenkai Tian (2019), Wenchao Jiang · Undergraduate Students (Year of Graduation): Tian Gao (2019), Yushu Zeng (2019)

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