Yang Liu

Senior associate professor

Connecting smart technologies with sustainability

About me

Yang Liu received the M.Sc. (Tech.) degree in telecommunication engineering and D.Sc. (Tech.) degree in industrial management from the University of Vaasa, Finland, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He is currently a tenured Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor with the Department of Management and Engineering, Linköping University, Sweden; a Visiting Faculty with the Department of Production, University of Vaasa, Finland; and a Chair Professor with Jinan University, China. Meanwhile, he is an Adjunct/Visiting Professor at multiple other universities.

His research interests include sustainable smart manufacturing, product service innovation, decision support system, competitive advantage, control system, autonomous robot, signal processing, and pattern recognition.Prof. Liu has authored or co-authored more than 120 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His publications have appeared in several distinguished journals, and some ranked as top 0.1% ESI Hot Papers and top 1% ESI Highly Cited Papers. He serves as an Associate Editor of the prestigious Journal of Cleaner Production (2019 Impact Factor: 7.246) as well as a referee in over 50 SCI leading journals and external reviewer for NSERC of Canada, CONICYT of Chile.

Brief facts

Top 2% in the World

In the latest Stanford-Elsevier list of the world's top 2% most-cited scientists, I’m ranked 68,452 (self-citations excluded) out of around 200,000 top-cited scientists for 2021.

Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for "Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators"”, Mendeley Data, V5, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.5

Publications

I have co-authored several ESI top 0.1% Hot Papers and top 1% Highly Cited Papers.

2023

Research

For up to date information, please visit my Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

News

The ongoing project - FlexSUS

IEI researchers among the world´s most cited

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the two percent most cited scientists in the world. And again several researchers at IEI are on the list.

LiU researcher ranked top in research field

Senior Associate Professor Yang Liu is the leading contributor to the subject area of Industry 4.0-driven operations and supply chains for the circular economy.

LiU ranked top in “Big Data” and “Business Analytics” research fields in manufacturing

Associate Professor Yang Liu is among the leading contributors to the subject areas “Big Data” and “Business Analytics” in the manufacturing industry. This achievement also puts LiU among the best institutions worldwide.

Organisation

Environmental Technology and Management (MILJÖ)

Division of Environmental Technology and Management is a research and education environment at the Department of Management and Engineering. We turn environmental problems into opportunities.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

Studenthuset on Campus Valla in Linköping

About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.

Yang Liu

About me