Practice Assistant Professor
(PhD, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore-MIT Alliance)

Michelle Cheong is Practice Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. Her research interests include Logistics Network Design, Third Party Logistics Business & Trends, Supply Chain Planning and Configuration, and Spreadsheet Modeling of Business Problems. She graduated from Nanyang Technological University under the Singapore-MIT Alliance program. Prior to her PhD, Michelle has many years of IT development and consultancy experience. She has worked with many companies in precision engineering, printing and aerospace, developing and implementing enterprise-wide IT systems . Her recent consultancy works involve logistics network design for logistics companies.

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Senior Lecturer
(MSc, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Enoch joined DBS Bank Ltd in May 2007 as Managing Director in its Corporate Office. His mandate includes the review and transformation of support infrastructure for the global financial markets business in DBS.

In his free time, Enoch runs a consulting practice specialising in payment systems and risk management issues. He is also a Director of Assetia Capital Management Pte Ltd.

Up until Mar 2006, Enoch was the Executive Director of the Specialist Risk Department (SRD) in the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He represented the MAS in the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Committee on Payment and Settlement Systems (CPSS). He also served as a resource person to the MAS Board Risk Committee and attended its meetings regularly.

Prior to joining MAS in 1998, Enoch held several key appointments in risk management and IT functions during his 10-year tenure at UBS AG. He was a Director of UBS (Futures) Pte Ltd, and as Alternate Director, UBS Data Systems Pte Ltd.

Before his career in UBS, Enoch worked for the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) for 9 years. He represented Singapore at the International Civil Aviation Organisation's Special Committee on Future Air Navigation Systems and at ad hoc international meetings to establish Area Navigation routes in the Asia/Pacific Region.

Enoch is keen in various voluntary works. He just completed his third term as a member of Singapore's National Trust Council that promotes the adoption of comprehensive risk management framework to reduce fraud in online transaction. He was the President of MAS Recreation Club (2002-04) and founding member of both the MIT Club of Singapore and Princeton Alumni Association of Singapore. He also served in Princeton Alumni Schools Council and MIT Educational Council.

Enoch holds a Master's degree in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.

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Practice Associate Professor of Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
(PhD, University of Minnesota)

Adel F Dimian is Practice Associate Professor of Management in the Lee Kong Chian School of Business. He recently joined SMU after serving nearly 19 years with 3M in varied and increasing responsibilities in technical and business management for worldwide.

As a scientist he was awarded 9 patents for novel chemistry solutions. He is a certified six sigma black belt and master black belt. Adel spent 3 years based in Singapore as a regional business development manager responsible for 3M's Asia electronics portfolio. Prior to moving back to Singapore and joining SMU, he was appointed vice president and general manager for 3M's healthcare IT compliance business in New York City. Adel has worked in the healthcare, memory technology, commercial brand identity and graphic design, IT, and electronic market segments.

He received his formal education in the sciences, liberal arts, and business administration earning a BS, MS and PhD degrees in chemistry, and an MBA with honors from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota. His expertise is strategy, innovation, process improvement and general management.

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Practice Associate Professor
(PhD, University College London)

Kam Tin Seong is Practice Associate Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. Assoc Prof Kam has more than twenty years of experience in both the geospatial industry as well as the academia. His teaching and research interests are in GIS for Business, location intelligence and spatial optimisation, Internet Mapping and GIS services, geo-business data mining, and Spatial OLAP. Prior to joining SMU he was the Manager, Application and Educational Services, ESRI Pte. Ltd., one of the world leading GIS company.

Assoc Prof Kam is active in consulting work as well as executive training for government agencies and companies. Some organisations that he consulted or conducted training programmes for include the United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Asia Development Bank, Japan-Indonesia Forum (JIF), Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA), Singapore Land Authority (SLA), Land Transport Authority (LTA), Jurong Town Corporation (JTC), National Environmental Agency (NEA), Citibank, Standard Charted Bank, National Healthcare Group (NHC), PT. Freeport, Brunei Shell Petroleum, UNOCAL Thailand, and ConocoPhillips, Indonesia.

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Associate Professor, School of Accountancy
(MEcons, Macquarie University)

Khoo Teng Aun is Associate Professor in the School of Accountancy, Singapore Management University. He had taught at National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University. He had many years of working experience in external audit, internal audit, company secretary, financial accountant as well as management services. He was previously the tax examiner for the basic tax paper for the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in 1997. He also teaches taxation for executive courses. He is currently a member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Singapore. His research interests include the area of internet financial reporting, multi-national companies, cost and management accounting systems, as well as, entrepreneurial studies.

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Practice Assistant Professor
(PhD, Imperial College London)

Dr Lee Wee Leong is Practice Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. Dr Lee holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours Class I) in Mechanical Engineering from University of Leeds (UK), Master of Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and PhD from Imperial College (UK) on an overseas research scholarship from the formal National Science & Technology Board (NSTB) currently known as Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR).

Dr Lee formerly heads the R&D department at Y3 Technologies (a supply chain solutions provider) and was responsible for developing and implementing supply chain planning (optimisation-based) and execution systems. He was also providing consultancy in supply chain network optimisation. Before joining Y3, he was a research fellow with Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology (SIMTech) and was engaged in R&D activities in the areas of demand forecasting, vehicle routing optimisation, loading optimisation and RFID application development and implementation. In his earlier career, Dr Lee has several years of working experience in the oil & gas and aerospace industry.

Dr Lee has published articles in academic journals and presented papers at international conferences. His academic articles have appeared in the International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Operations & Production Management and Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing.

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Practice Associate Professor
(PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Thin-Yin is Practice Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University. He was formerly senior lecturer at the business school, National University of Singapore and has taught undergraduate, postgraduate and executive programme courses in operations management, business logistics, business process modeling and simulation. He has also consulted for a number of businesses in Singapore in production planning, supply chain management and business process improvement. Prior to joining SMU, he had also spent many years working in the engineering, technology management, infocomm and senior management capacities. His main research interests are currently in spreadsheets as decision-support systems, end-user software engineering and computing, applications of IT in operations management, applications of IT in supply chain management and logistics, and conceptual design of business processes.

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Practice Associate Professor of Finance
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
(PhD, New York University)

Joseph Lim is a director of Vanden Advisors LLC, a valuation and advisory service. He was formerly a SVP in Marsh ( Singapore ), heading the Private Equity and M&A practice. Prior to that, he was Director of the Saw Center for Financial Studies and also an Associate Professor of Finance at the NUS Business School where he taught courses in Investment Analysis and Fund Management. He obtained a PhD in Finance from New York University, an MBA from Columbia University, and a CFA from the CFA Institute.

He is the past President of CFA Singapore and still serves as a board member. Joseph is a trustee on the board of the Singapore National Eye Centre Endowment Fund. He also serves on various other committees in the financial services industry.

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Practice Professor
(PhD, Carnegie Mellon University)

Dr. Miller is founding Dean of the School of Information Systems (SIS) at Singapore Management University , and also serves as Practice Professor of Information Systems. Since 2003, he has led efforts to launch and establish the undergraduate, graduate and professional programs of the SIS.

Immediately prior to joining SMU, Dr. Miller served as Chief Architect Executive for the Business Consulting Services unit of IBM Global Services in Asia Pacific. He held prior industry appointments with Fujitsu Network Systems, and with RWD Technologies. Dr. Miller started his professional career as an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University , conducting research and teaching related to Computer-Integrated Manufacturing and Robotics applications and impacts.

He has a Bachelors of Engineering Degree in Systems Engineering (Magna Cum Laude) from the University of Pennsylvania and a Masters of Science in Statistics and a Ph.D. in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University .

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Practice Professor
(PhD, University of Hawaii)

Arcot Desai Narasimhalu has about thirty years of experience in Innovation and Innovation Management. He has formalised his experience with a study of successful innovations leading to an innovation framework he has named Innvoation Cube. He has initiated and directed several technology innovation groups and has helped transition them into product or service innovations in the commercial world. He has also significant experience in IT Management and is currently very active in the field of IT Governance. He has established active networks in IT Governance with both the industry and academia.

Desai is a Practice Professor of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University with the School of Information Systems where he is also the Associate Dean for Student Programmes and External Relations. He also helps run SMU's incubation center called Business Innovation Generator. He is also an advisor to start ups in the technology arena.

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Senior Lecturer
(MPhil, Cambridge University)

Education

• MPhil in Computer Speech Processing, Cambridge University
• BEng in Electrical Engineering, National University of Singapore

Working Experiences

• IBM ASEAN/SA, Senior Technical Solution Manager, Singapore

Teaching & Project Topics

• Retail Banking Processes and IT Solutions
• Design of Learning Labs for Integrated Understanding of Banking Processes, Data Management and IT Solutions

 

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Assistant Professor
(PhD, University of Michigan)

Narayan Ramasubbu is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems at the Singapore Management University. He graduated from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a PhD in Business Administration. Prior to pursuing his PhD, he was a senior developer with SAP AG where he was involved in the design, development and deployment of enterprise business intelligence systems in the sales and distribution, and CRM domains. He also consulted for and participated in several industry-academic collaborations with leading firms, including Tektronix, Infosys, Wipro, and SAP Labs India, on designing software product, project and process management strategies. His primary research and teaching interests include distributed product development, software product standardisation and customisation, software engineering economics, and business value of IT.

His research has appeared or is forthcoming in proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Academy of Management conferences, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and IEEE Software.

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Practice Associate Professor
(PhD, University of Strathclyde)

Venky Shankararaman is a Practice Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems, Singapore Management University, Singapore. His current areas of specialisation include enterprise architecture, enterprise integration, service oriented architecture and business process management. He has over 14 years experience in the IT industry in various capacities as a researcher, academic faculty member and industry consultant. Venky has designed and delivered professional courses for government and industry in areas such as enterprise architecture, technical architecture, enterprise integration and business process management. Venky also worked as a faculty member at Universities in the UK and Singapore where he was actively involved in teaching and research in the areas of intelligent systems and distributed systems. He has published over 50 papers in academic journals and conferences.