Yifan Liu

Yifan Liu is an incoming postdoctoral fellow at the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab at Harvard Business School. She recently received her PhD in Public Policy and her MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. Her research focuses on energy and environmental policy, with a particular interest in transportation systems and emerging technologies. She integrates public policy and management theories with computational methods, including machine learning and causal inference, applied to novel datasets to study policy questions. Her current work examines how market competition and policy design can incentivize improvements in energy infrastructure quality and public service provision. Her work has been recognized with the William H. Read Award and the Outstanding Ph.D. Student Award from Georgia Tech's Carter School, Stanford's 2025 Rising Stars in Data Science distinction, and the Best Paper Award from the Transportation Research Board. It has also been supported by the National Science Foundation and Microsoft Research.