Executive Director
Tel: 6516-4296
rdesouza@nus.edu.sg

Robert De Souza  The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific, NUS

Dr. Robert de Souza is the Executive Director of the The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific (TLI - Asia Pacific). Robert is a Chartered Engineer and a distinguished writer, speaker, consultant and advisor in the area of supply chain management. Prior to this appointment, effective May 1st 2004, Dr Robert de Souza served as Deputy Executive Director (Industry) and IT Director at TLI - Asia Pacific. Previously, Dr de Souza was Executive Vice President (Asia Pacific) for V3 Systems. His extensive tenure in the industry also includes serving as the Corporate Senior Vice President and Global Chief Knowledge Officer at Viewlocity Inc. and co-founder, Vice Chairman and CEO of SC21 Pte, Ltd., a Singapore-based supply chain software firm. As an educator, Dr de Souza is an Adjunct Professor in the Schoool of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta and also a Senior Fellow in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the National University of Singapore and has previously served as a professor and in several senior positions in the School of Mechanical and Production Engineering at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Dr. de Souza is a member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and the International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. Dr de Souza also serves on the Advisory Panel of The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, Singapore (CILTS), as a Council Member of the Singapore eSupply Chain Management (eSCM) Council and on the Boards of Directors/Advisors of several IT- based corporations

Program Director
(Defence Logistics)
Tel: 6516-6431/4842
tlices@nus.edu.sg

Chia Eng Seng, Aaron  Associate Professor, TLI-AP and Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore.

Dr Chia has managed defence logistics in the Republic of Singapore Air Force and Defence Science and Technology Agency for twenty years. His experiences included aircraft modifications, engineering and maintenance, aircraft parts supply and warehousing and integrated logistics support.

His current research interests include logistics and supply chain R&D projects that involve system perspectives and frameworks, methodologies, policies, technologies and tools for use in the military. Examples include inventory management, managing competitiveness and supply chain governance.

Director
(Degree Education)
Tel: 6516-1359
tlitkc@nus.edu.sg

Tan Kok Choon  Associate Professor (Practice), Department of Decision Sciences, NUS Business School and TLI-AP

Dr Tan received his BSc (1st Class Hons) in Mathematics from the National University of Singapore and his PhD in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was an NUS Overseas Post-Graduate Scholar at the Operations Research Center, MIT. He has held appointments as Assistant Professor and Departmental Manager in the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, NUS, as well as Manager (Operations Research) and Container Terminal Process Manager in PSA Corporation Limited, and Manager (Operations Research) in PSA International’s Group Technical and Operations Development Department. He was also seconded to the Land Transport Authority as Operations Research Manager and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, NUS.

Prof Tan teaches Management Science, Inventory Systems, Industrial Logistics and Supply Chain Management in the Department of Decision Sciences. His teaching philosophy is to use his industrial experience to enrich his students and to help them connect concepts learnt in class with practical solutions to problems in industry.

Prof Tan's research interests include Optimisation Theory and Applications and Container Terminal Operations Research, as well as Transportation and Logistics modeling. He has journal and conference papers in Mathematics of Operations, Mathematical Programming, Proceedings of the Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, OR Spectrum, Intermodal Transportation Research, Supply Chain Optimization, among others.

Prof Tan had been the Honorary President of the Operational Research Society of Singapore (ORSS) for three years and is currently the Vice-President of ORSS.

Lau Hoong Chuin  Adjunct Fellow, TLI-AP and Associate Professor of Information Systems, Singapore Management University.

His research interests are in optimization models, algorithms, and decision support systems for logistics and supply chain problems. The underlying methodology is a hybrid of OR/AI approaches involving mathematical programming, constraint programming, agents and meta-heuristics. Beyond models and algorithms, I am interested in software engineering themes such as frameworks and patterns, deployment issues in real-time and real-world operating environments.

Director
(Industry Research)
Tel: 6516-1362
tligohkh@nus.edu.sg

Mark Goh  Associate Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, School of Business, NUS

A former Colombo Plan Scholar, Dr. Goh holds a Ph.D. from the University of Adelaide. In the National University of Singapore, he holds the appointments of Director (Industry Research) at the Logistics Institute-Asia Pacific, a joint venture with Georgia Tech, USA, Principal Researcher at the Centre for Transportation Research, and was a Program Director of the Penn-State NUS Logistics Management Program. He also used to be Director of Supply Chain Solutions for Asia/Middle East with APL Logistics, crafting logistics engineering solutions for major MNCs in this part of the world.

Dr. Goh was a Board Member of the Chartered Institute of Transport (Singapore), past Chairman of the Academic Board of Examiners for the Singapore Institute of Purchasing and Materials Management, member of the Advisory Committee of the Transportation Resource Centre (NUS) and a past Vice President of the Operations Research Society of Singapore, Associate Senior Fellow of the Institute of South east Asian Studies. His other professional affiliations include membership of INFORMS, and the Academy of International Business. His biography appears in Who's Who in Asia and the Pacific Nations, Who’s Who in the World, and Outstanding People of the 20th Century.

He has been involved in executive training for various key organisations in Singapore, for example, PSA Corp., MIS, SIPMM, PSB, J&J, Siemens Nixdorf, CIT, CAAS, Fuji-Xerox AP, Applied Biosystems, Danzas, DHL, Samsung, SembCorp Logistics, Exel, CEI and Mindef. Prof. Goh has also acted as a consultant to organisations both in Singapore and overseas, like Lucent Technologies, Pentex Schweitzer, Trans-Link Express, Perkins Parts, Singapore Post, NCB, Unilever East Asia Pacific, MSAS, TDB, Hewlett-Packard Far East, Siemens Nixdorf, APO, Confectionery Transformation, Danzas-AEI, Bossard Asia Pacific, BBraun AP, Pasminco, Mindef, Cleanaway (China), IE Singapore, Cleanaway, Knight Frank, and FXS.

He has held appointments as a visiting Professor in Business Logistics Strategy at Chulalongkorn University, Commonwealth Fellow to the UK, Citibank International Fellow to the US, visiting research fellow at UMIST, visiting scholar at Beijing University, visiting professor at Melbourne University, and adjunct professor at the University of South Australia. He is currently on the editorial boards of the Journal of Supply Chain Management, Q3 Quarterly, Journal for Inventory Research, and Advances in Management Research, and has served as an associate editor for the Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research.

His current research interests focus on supply chain strategy, performance measurement, buyer-seller relationships and reverse logistics. With more than 130 technical papers in internationally refereed journals and conferences, some of his recent academic articles on supply chain management have appeared in the Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, Industrial Marketing Management, European Journal of Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, IIE Transactions, Naval Research Logistics, Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Production and Operations Management, EJOR, Supply Chain Management Journal, Industrial Organisations, and Logistics Information Management.