Yifan Liu

Yifan Liu is a Ph.D. candidate (ABD) at the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech and concurrently an M.S. candidate in Computer Science. She received her MPA degree from Cornell University in 2021. Her research bridges data science and computational methods with policy design and evaluation, integrating causal inference and machine learning to inform behavioral and economic decision-making in climate, energy, and transportation systems. She has been developing a scalable NLP pipeline to detect reliability issues in public electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure, investigating how industry competition influences service quality, and assessing the social impacts of public subsidies in EV charging.