Shu Lu Assistant Professor Department of Statistics and Operations Research University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Contact	Office: 210 Smith Building, UNC Campus  Telephone: (919) 962-1048  FAX: (919) 962-0391  E-mail: shulu@email.UNC.edu Mailing Address: 210 Smith Building, CB #3260, UNC, Chapel Hill NC 27599-3260
Education	University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI, USA) Ph.D., Industrial Engineering                                         2007 M.A., Mathematics                                                       2006 M.S., Industrial Engineering                                          2006 Specialization area: Decision Science/Operations Research Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) M.S. Civil Engineering                                                  2002 Specialization area: Transportation B.S., Civil Engineering                                                  2000
Research Areas	Mathematical programming, especially convex analysis, variational analysis and stochastic optimization; applications in all types of problems
Selected Publications	S. Lu and S. M. Robinson. Normal fans of polyhedral convex sets: structures and connections. Set-valued Analysis, Published online in advance with DOI: 10.1007/s11228-008-0077-9. 25 pages S. Lu and S. M. Robinson. Variational inequalities over perturbed polyhedral convex sets. Accepted by Mathematics of Operations Research S. Lu. Sensitivity of static traffic user equilibria with perturbations in arc cost function and travel demand. Transportation Science, 2008, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp. 105-123 S. M. Robinson and S. Lu. Solution continuity in variational conditions. Journal of Global Optimization, 2008, Vol. 40, pp. 405-415 S. Lu, H. Lu, H. Tang and J. Lu. Analysis of influencing factors on urban travel speed. Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development, 2003, Vol.20, No.1, p.110-113 (in Chinese) S. Lu and H. Lu. Capacity method for uncontrolled intersections. Journal of Highway and Transportation Research and Development, 2002, Vol.19, No.2, p. 89-92 (in Chinese)
Recent Presentations	S. Lu. Sensitivity of variational inequalities on perturbed polyhedral convex sets. Invited talk. Presented at the 2007 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2007, Seattle, WA S. M. Robinson and S. Lu. Solution continuity in variational conditions. Presented at the workshop on Variational Analysis and Partial Differential Equations, July 2006, Erice, Sicily, Italy S. Lu and S. M. Robinson. Variational inequalities over perturbed polyhedral convex sets. Poster presentation at the ACNW Optimization Tutorials, June 2006, Chicago, IL S. Lu and S. M. Robinson. Sensitivity of static traffic user equilibria. Presented at the 4th International Conference on Complementarity Problems, August 2005, Stanford, CA J. Lu, H. Tang, S. Lu and B. Ran. Locating roadside servers for advanced traveler information systems. Presented at the 85th Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting, January 2006, Washington D.C. J. Lu, S. Lu and B. Ran. Sensitivity analysis of traffic network flows under dynamic user equilibrium. Presented at the 2005 INFORMS Annual Meeting, November 2005, San Francisco, CA
Working Papers	X. Ban, S. Lu and M. Ferris. Risk taking in second-best toll pricing when user equilibrium solution is not unique.
Courses	STOR 215: Introduction to Decision Sciences (Fall 2007) STOR 415: Deterministic Models in Operations Research (Spring 2008)
Curriculum Vitae	Lu CV.pdf