Dr. Shutian Liu obtained Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New York University, M.S. from the Department of Electrical Engineering at Columbia University, and B.E. from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University.
Dr. Liu's research interests lie in Game Theory, Optimization/Control Theory, Risk Analysis, and their applications in Socio-Technical Systems Security, Misinformation, Adversarial AI, and Public 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. Dynamic Games and Applications. 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 Fall 2026. The research focus includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:
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Information design in games and partially observable systems;
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Risk-sensitivity in optimization and games;
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Systemic risks in epidemiology and cybersecurity.
If your research interests are compatible with mine, please do not hesitate to contact me with your CV and transcripts.
Last update date :
12 Oct 2025
