• Victor F. Araman*，Hong Chen, Peter W. Glynn, Li Xia*, “On a single server queue fed by scheduled traffic with Pareto perturbations,” Queueing Systems, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11134-021-09732-9.

• Li Xia*, Zhe George Zhang*, Quan-Lin Li, “A c/μ-Rule for Job Assignment in Heterogeneous Group-Server Queues,” Production and Operations Management, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1111/poms.13605.

• Xin Wen, Xianping Guo, Li Xia*, “Optimal dividend problems with a risk probability criterion,” Naval Research Logistics, 2021. doi: 10.1002/nav.22026.

• Xiaoteng Ma, Xiaohang Tang, Li Xia*, Jun Yang*, Qianchuan Zhao, “Average-Reward Reinforcement Learning with Trust Region Methods”, IJCAI2021.

• Li Xia, “Risk-sensitive Markov decision processes with combined metrics of mean and variance,” Production and Operations Management, Vol. 29, No. 12, pp. 2808-2827, 2020. doi:10.1111/poms.13252.

• Zhen Yang, Li Xia*, Xiaohong Guan. “Fluctuation reduction of wind power and sizing of battery energy storage systems in microgrids,” IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 1195-1207, 2020, doi: 10.1109/TASE.2020.2977944.

• Li Xia, “Mean-variance optimization of discrete time discounted Markov decision processes,” Automatica, Vol. 88, pp. 76-82, 2018.

• Li Xia and Sha Chen, “Dynamic pricing control for open queueing networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 63, No. 10, pp. 3290-3300, 2018.

• Li Xia, “Variance minimization of parameterized Markov decision processes,” Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications, Vol. 28, pp. 63-81, 2018.

• Li Xia, Daniel Miller, Zhengyuan Zhou, and Nicholas Bambos, “Service rate control of tandem queues with power constraints,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 5111-5123, 2017. (the 2018 Ho-Pan-Chi-Yi Best Paper Award)

• Li Xia, Qi-Ming He and Attahiru Alfa, “Optimal control of state-dependent service rates in a MAP/M/1 queue,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 62, No. 10, pp. 4965-4979, 2017.

• Li Xia, “Optimization of Markov decision processes under the variance criterion,” Automatica, Vol. 73, pp. 269-278, 2016.

• Li Xia and Qing-Shan Jia, “Parameterized Markov decision process and its application to service rate control,” Automatica, Vol.54, pp. 29-35, 2015.