Current Position
- Deputy President (Research & Technology), NUS
- Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor, NUS
- Professor (Department of Marketing, Department of Economics, Department of Analytics & Operations, Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management), NUS
- Executive Chairman, AI.SG
- Chairman, Singapore Data Science Consortium
- Director, NUS Global Asia Institute Centre for Behavioural Economics, NUS
- Editor-in-Chief, Management Science
Education
- University of Pennsylvania, MA (Honorary) (1999)
- University of Pennsylvania, PhD in decision sciences (1993)
- University of Pennsylvania, MA in decision sciences (1991)
- National University of Singapore, MSc in computer and information sciences (1989)
- National University of Singapore, BEng (first class honours) in electrical engineering (1985)
Awards and Grants
- Williamson Award (2015); this is the Berkeley-Haas School’s highest faculty award, named in honour of Oliver Williamson, the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and celebrates honourees who best reflect the character and integrity associated with Williamson’s scholarly work and legacy
- Favourite professor by Haas School MBA students (2015) (Poets & Quants Online – http://poetsandquants.com/2015/06/18/the-top-mbas-name-their-favorite-business-school-professors/3/)
- First Runner-Up, Cheit Teaching Award (The Berkeley MBA for Executives Program) (2014)
- Second Place, Wickham Skinner Best Paper Award for “Distributional and Peer-induced Fairness in Supply Chain Contract Design”, with X. Su and Y. Wu (2014)
- Finalist, William F. O’Dell Award (2011)
- Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley (2010)
- First Runner-Up, Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Evening MBA Programme) (2009)
- Finalist, John DC Little Best Paper Award (2006)
- Finalist, Paul Green Best Paper Award (2005)
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Weekend MBA Programme) (2006)
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Evening MBA Programme) (2005)
- Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Full-time MBA Programme) (2004)
- Honourable Mention, Earl F. Cheit Award for Excellence in Teaching (Full-time MBA Programme) (2003)
- Finalist, Helen Kardon Moss Anvil Teaching Award, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (2000)
- Deloitte and Touche Award for Advisor of a Management Field Study, University of California, Los Angeles (1996)
- Honourable Mention, George Dantzig Best Dissertation Award (1994)
- ARCO Chemical Dissertation Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1992)
- University Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (1990-1991)