Xufei Liu
PhD Candidate in Operations Management
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
3730 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
I am on the 2026–27 academic job market.
About me
Hello! I am a fifth-year PhD candidate in Operations Management at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, advised by Gad Allon and Ken Moon.
I study the human side of AI and monitoring technologies in operations. Organizations can now sense their workers at high frequency — through keystrokes, wearables, eye tracking, and physiological sensors — and my research uses that sensing to measure what technologies such as LLM assistants actually do to the people who use them, and to design when-to-intervene policies that keep technology-assisted work productive and sustainable.
My work combines lab and field experiments with biometric instrumentation, decision-focused machine learning, structural estimation, and reinforcement learning, in collaborations with practicing clinicians, the U.S. Air Force, and a large digital language-learning platform.
Dissertation committee: Gad Allon, Ken Moon, Hummy Song, and Christian Terwiesch.
Before Wharton, I received a B.S. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Honors Program).