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Shu Lu

 

Assistant Professor

Department of Statistics and Operations Research

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Contact

Office: 355 Hanes Hall, UNC Campus 

Telephone: (919) 962-1048 

FAX: (919) 962-0391 

E-mail: shulu@email.UNC.edu

Mailing Address:

355 Hanes Hall, 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

Tsinghua University (Beijing, China)

M.S. Civil Engineering                                           2002

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. Implications of the Constant Rank Constraint Qualification. 24 pages. To appear in Mathematical Programming Series A

·      X. Ban, S. Lu, M. Ferris and H. Liu. Risk-Averse Second-Best Toll Pricing. 22 pages. To appear in Proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Transportation and Traffic Theory

·      S. Lu and S. M. Robinson. Variational inequalities over perturbed polyhedral convex sets. Mathematics of Operations Research, 2008, Vol. 33, pp. 689-711

·      S. Lu and S. M. Robinson. Normal fans of polyhedral convex sets: structures and connections. Set-valued Analysis, 2008, Vol. 16, pp. 281-305

·      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

Preprints

·      S. Lu. Variational Conditions under the Constant Rank Constraint Qualification. 12 pages. Submitted for publication

Courses

·      STOR 215: Introduction to Decision Sciences (Fall 2007)

·      STOR 415: Deterministic Models in Operations Research (Spring 2008, 2009)

·      STOR 614: Linear Programming (Spring 2009)

Curriculum Vitae

Lu CV.pdf

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