Dr. Shutian Liu obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University in 2024, M.S. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University in 2018, and B.E. from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University in 2016.
Dr. Liu's research interests lie broadly in Game Theory, Optimization/Control Theory, Risk Analytics/Management, Network Science, and their applications in multidisciplinary areas such as Adversarial AI, Socio-Technical Systems Security, Human Factors, Misinformation, and Public Health.
Some recent interests include (but not limited to):
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Information design in partially observable systems and games of incomplete information.
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Risk preference and belief maneuvering in data-driven stochastic optimization.
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Population/Meanfield games over complex networks.
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Cybersecutiy, deceptive defense, cyber insurance design.
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Epidemic modelling/control and public health policy design.
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Federated learning and network design in AI for health.
Journal
- Shutian, Liu. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2025). Mitigating Moral Hazard in Insurance Contracts Using Risk Preference Design. Operations Research Letters. Volume 62.
- Shutian, Liu. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2024). Stackelberg risk preference design. Mathematical Programming. Volume 209. 785 - 823.
- Shutian, Liu. , Tao, Li. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2023). Game-Theoretic Distributed Empirical Risk Minimization With Strategic Network Design. IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. Volume: 9. 542 - 556.
- Shutian, Liu. , Yuhan, Zhao. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2022). Herd Behaviors in Epidemics: A Dynamics-Coupled Evolutionary Games Approach. Volume 12. 183 - 213.
- Shutian, Liu. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2020). Robust and stochastic optimization with a hybrid coherent risk measure with an application to supervised learning. IEEE Control Systems Letters. Volume 5 Issue 3. 965 - 970.
Conference Paper
- Shutian, Liu. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2022). EPROACH: A Population Vaccination Game for Strategic Information Design to Enable Responsible COVID Reopening. 2022 American Control Conference (ACC).
- Shutian, Liu. & Quanyan, Zhu. (2022). On the Role of Risk Perceptions in Cyber Insurance Contracts. 2022 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS).
Opportunities
- I am actively looking for self-motivated PhD students starting Spring/Fall 2026. If your research interests are compatible with mine, please do not hesitate to contact me with your CV and transcripts.
Last update date :
17 Jul 2025
