CV

Doctor of Philosophy

Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

Operations Research & Artificial Intelligence

• Dissertation: Game-theoretic Approaches for Complex Systems Optimization.
• Committee: Robert L. Smith (Co-Chair, IOE), Michael P. Wellman (Co-Chair, CSE), Marina Epelman, Satinder Singh.

Bachelor of Science in Engineering

Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Principal Research Scientist

Amazon

Working on optimizing delivery experience and logistics operations.

Urban Fellow

Urban Institute
Singapore Management University

Associate Professor of Computer Science

School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University

Deputy Director (Research)

Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering Corp Lab
Singapore Management University

• A S$27m research lab jointly funded by Fujitsu (Japan) and National Research Foundation (Singapore).
• Focus on research with real-world impact in urban mobility, logistics, and crowd management.

Assistant Professor of Information Systems

School of Computing and Information Systems
Singapore Management University

Graduate Student Instructor

University of Michigan

Teaching assistant for IOE 310: Introduction to Optimization Methods.

Graduate Student Research Assistant

University of Michigan

• Member of Strategic Reasoning Group (PI: Michael P. Wellman).
• Member of Dynamic Systems Optimization Lab (PI: Robert L. Smith).

Software Engineer

OLE Technology Corp

Software startup company on Product Life Cycle Management system.

Lecturer, Second Lieutenant

Taiwan Army

Compulsory Military Service

Best Student Paper Award

2021 INFORMS Conference on Service Science

Winning material: Integrating Empirical Analysis into Analytical Framework: An Integrated Model Structure for On-Demand Transportation.

Finalist

INFORMS Innovative Applications in Analytics Award (IAAA)

Winning material: Driver Guidance System for Taxi Drivers.

Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for Research Excellence

Singapore Management University

Established in 2014 using the Lee Kong Chian Fund for Research Excellence from the Lee Foundation, the Fellowship acknowledges and rewards faculty who have an excellent research record and hold great promise.

Best Application Demo

Seventeenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS-18)

Winning material: A Driver Guidance System for Taxis in Singapore.

First Prize, CIKM AnalytiCup: DataSpark Mobility Open-Task Challenge

Twenty-Sixth ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM-17)

Winning material: Predicting Taxi Demand-Supply Mismatches to Dynamically Position Mobility-on-Demand Services.

Honorable Mention, Best of CSCW Award

Nineteenth ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW-16)

Top 5% of all accepted papers. Winning material: Campus-scale mobile crowd-tasking: Deployment and behavioral insights.

Lee Kong Chian Fellowship for Research Excellence

Singapore Management University

Established in 2014 using the Lee Kong Chian Fund for Research Excellence from the Lee Foundation, the Fellowship acknowledges and rewards faculty who have an excellent research record and hold great promise.

Finalist, George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award

INFORMS

Best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice. Winning Material: Game-theoretic Approaches for Complex Systems Optimization.

Wilson Prize

Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

Best student paper in manufacturing systems: Sampled fictitious play for multi-action stochastic dynamic programs.

President's Award

Department of Mechnical Engineering, National Taiwan University

Top 5% of the cohort.

PI : Enabling Sustainable Point-to-Point Transport Service via Behavioral Game Theory

Urban Institute, Singapore Management University, S$124,990

Co-PI : The Impacts of On-demand Platforms under Individual Choice Endogeneity

Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2, S$382,187

With Ying Xu (SUTD) as PI.

PI : Learning by Doing in the Age of Big Data

Ministry of Education Social Science Research Thematic Grant, S$579,318

With Sumit Agarwal, Ben Charoenwong, and Jussi Keppo (all NUS Business School) as Co-PIs.

Co-PI : Not for Girls?: Gender Imbalance in STEM and Its impact on Female Students' Creative Performance

Ministry of Education Tertiary Education Research Fund, S$192,673

With Chi-Ying Cheng as PI.

PI : Smart Barrier-Free Access (SmartBFA) 2.0

Mercurics, S$50,000

PI : Intelligent Taxi Queue Management

Changi Airport Group, S$200,000

Co-Lead PI : Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering Lab

Fujitsu and National Research Foundation, S$27,000,000

With Hoong Chuin Lau as Lead PI.

PI : Context-Aware Large-Scale Mobile Crowd-Sourcing

Xerox Research Center India (XRCI), USD$150,000

With Archan Misra.

PI : Coordinating Automated Para-Transit Service Operations

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, S$482,515

With Hoong Chuin Lau.

PI : Optimizing Taxi Fleet Operations

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, S$46,211

PI : Commodity Trading Simulation

The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, S4,589

PI : Policy Implications of Position Limits: An Agent-based Analysis

The Institute for Financial Markets, USD$15,000

With Bernard Lee and Annie Koh.

PI : Creating a Better Commodity Trading Simulation - A Multi-Agent Approach

SMU International Trading Institute, S$37,350

PI : Exploring Agent-based Computational Models

Wharton-SMU Research Centre, S$39,050

PI : Market-Based Approaches for Dynamic Resource Allocation Problems

SMU Office of Research, S$30,100

PI : Designing the Market Game for a Commodity Trading Simulation

International Enterprise Singapore, S$47,266

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Jian Bin Liew

• Thesis Title: TBD

Pang Jin Tan

• Thesis Title: Collaborative logistics: Theory and Practice of Platform and Incentive Design
• Awarded SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2024

Qian Shao

• Thesis Title: Real-world Considerations in Human Decision Making
• Awarded SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2023, 2024

Mengyu Ji

• Thesis Title: Analyzing Taxi Drivers' Decision-making and Recommending Strategies for Enhanced Performance: A Data-driven Approach
• Current Position: Assistant Professor, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, China

Chung-Kyun Han

• Thesis Title: Efficient Algorithms for Trajectory-Aware Mobile Crowdsourcing
• Awarded SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2020
• Current Position: Technical Account Manager, Gurobi Optimization

Larry Lin

• Co-supervise with Hoong Chuin Lau
• Thesis Title: Modeling Movement Decisions in Networks: A Discrete Choice Model Approach
• Current Position: Data Scientist, Grab

Cen Chen

• Co-supervise with Hoong Chuin Lau
• Thesis Title: Recommending Personalized Schedules in Urban Environments
• Current Position: Associate Professor, School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University

Jiali Du

• Co-supervise with Hoong Chuin Lau
• Thesis Title: Proactive and Reactive Strategies to Handle Surges in Urban Crowds
• Current Position: Data Scientist, Booking.com

Nurul Asyikeen Azhar

• Co-supervise with Aldy Gunawan
• Thesis Title: Enabling Sustainable Mining via AI-based Approaches
• Awarded EDB Scholarship
• Current Position: Senior Data Scientist, Rio Tinto

Duc Thien Nguyen

• Co-supervise with Hoong Chuin Lau
• Thesis Title: Fair Cost Sharing Auction Mechanisms in Last Mile Ridesharing
• Current Position: Research Scientist, IBM

Long Foong Liow

• Co-supervise with Hoong Chuin Lau
• Thesis Title: Go Niche or Go Home: Influence Maximization In the Presence of Strong Opponent
• Current Position: Manager, Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore