Liu, Hu-Chen
Professor, Doctoral supervisor
Department Head of Management Science and Engineering
+86-21-6598 2884
huchenliu@tongji.edu.cn
Research Interests: Quality Engineering, Intelligent quality management, Petri Nets Theory and Applications
Hu-Chen Liu is currently a professor at the School of Economics & Management, Tongji University. His main research interests include Intelligent quality management, Quality 4.0, Petri net theory and applications, and healthcare operation management. He has published 100+ papers in these areas in leading journals, such as IISE, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, International Journal of Production Economics, and International Journal of Production Research.
Dr. Liu is an Associate Academician of the International Academy for Quality, and is a Senior member of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, the IEEE Reliability Society, the INFORMS, the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE), and the China Association for Quality.
- 2013, Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- 2010, Master, Industrial Engineering, Tongji University, China
- 2006, Bachelor, Industrial Engineering, Xi’an University of Science & Technology, China
Teaching
- 2019-Now, Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tongji University
- 2013-2019, Associate Professor/Professor, School of Management, Shanghai University
Research Projects
- Research on quality enhancement strategies and the path to building a quality power under the new technological revolution, No. 21ZDA024, 2021-2024, National Social Science Foundation Major Project;
- Knowledge representation and reasoning based on fuzzy Petri nets under complex and uncertain environments, No. 61773250, 2018-2021, National Natural Science Foundation of China;
- Research on healthcare failure mode and effects analysis under complex and uncertain environment, No. 71402090, 2015-2017, National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Monographs
- Hu-Chen Liu. FMEA using Uncertainty Theories and MCDM Methods. Springer, Singapore, 2016;
- Hu-Chen Liu. Improved FMEA Methods for Proactive Healthcare Risk Analysis. Springer, Singapore, 2019;
- Hu-Chen Liu, Xiao-Yue You. Green Supplier Evaluation and Selection: Models, Methods and Applications. Springer, Singapore, 2021.
Selected Papers
- Hu-Chen Liu, Qi-Zhen Zhang, Ran Liu*, Hua Shi, “Two decades on occupational health and safety risk assessment: A bibliometric analysis and literature review”, Human and Ecological Risk Assessment: An International Journal (2025) doi: 10.1080/10807039.2025.2503261;
- Hua Shi, Jing-Hui Wang, Hu-Chen Liu*, Song-Man Wu, “New SLIM method for human reliability analysis based on consensus analysis and combination weighting”, IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering 22 (2025) 631-642;
- Hua Shi, Ya-Xuan Yu, Ran Liu, Hu-Chen Liu*, “Probabilistic linguistic Petri nets for knowledge representation and acquisition with dynamic consensus reaching process”, IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems 32 (2024) 2198 - 2210;
- Hu-Chen Liu, Jing-Hui Wang, Ling Zhang*, Qin-Yu Chen, “An integrated model for occupational health and safety risk assessment based on probabilistic linguistic information and social network consensus analysis” Journal of the Operational Research Society (2024) 75(7) 1308-1324;
- Jia Huang, Jian-Xin You, Hu-Chen Liu* and Ming-Shun Song, “Failure mode and effect analysis improvement: A systematic literature review and future research agenda”, Reliability Engineering & System Safety, (2020), 199, 106885;
- Hu-Chen Liu, Xu-Qi Chen, Jian-Xin You*, and ZhiWu Li, “A new integrated approach for risk evaluation and classification with dynamic expert weights,” IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 70(1) (2021), 163-174;
- Ran Liu, Zheng Liu, Hu-Chen Liu*, Hua Shi, “An improved alternative queuing method for occupational health and safety risk assessment and its application to construction excavation”, Automation in Construction, 126 (2021),103672;
- Hu-Chen Liu, Song-Man Wu, Ze-Ling Wang *, Xiao-Yang Li, “A new method for quality function deployment with extended prospect theory under hesitant linguistic environment”, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, 68(2) (2021), 442-451;
- Jia Huang, Hu-Chen Liu*, Chun-Yan Duan, and Ming-Shun Song, “An improved reliability model for FMEA using probabilistic linguistic term sets and TODIM method,” Annals of Operations Research, (2019);
- Hu-Chen Liu, Jian-Xin You, Chun-Yan Duan, “An integrated approach for failure mode and effect analysis under interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy environment,” International Journal of Production Economics, (2019), 207, 163-172.
- Associate Academician of the International Academy for Quality
- Senior member of the IEEE Reliability Society
- China Association for Quality Member
- American Society of Quality Member
- IISE and INFORMS Senior Member
- 2023 Global Scholars Academic Influence Ranking
- 2022–2023 World’s Top 2% Scientists Lifetime Achievement List
- 2021–2023 World’s Top 2% Scientists List
- 2020–2023 Highly Cited Researchers