Thin Yin Leong

Professor Leong Thin Yin

Professor, Business Programme

School of Business

Tel: +65 6248 0157

Email: dHlsZW9uZ0BzdXNzLmVkdS5zZw==

Educational Qualifications

  • 1990

    PhD Management (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

  • 1981

    Bachelor of Engineering, First Class Honours (National University of Singapore)

Academic and Professional Experience

  • 2016 - Present

    Professor, Singapore University of Social Sciences

  • 2014 - 2016

    Associate Professor, SIM University

  • 2003 - 2014

    Associate Professor, Singapore Management University

  • 2000 - 2003

    Consultant/Senior Vice-President (Information Technology), PSA Corporation

  • 1999 - 2000

    Senior Vice-President/Vice-President (Container Systems), PSA Corporation

  • 1998 - 1999

    Vice-President (Operations Planning & Research), PSA Corporation

  • 1998 - 1999

    Project Director (Automated Guided Vehicle), PSA Corporation

  • 1995 - 1997

    Operations Planning Manager, Port of Singapore Authority

  • 1984 - 1995

    Senior Lecturer/Lecturer/Senior Tutor, National University of Singapore

  • 1981 - 1984

    Project Engineer/Production Engineer, Hewlett Packard Singapore

  • 1997 - 2006

    National Service, Singapore Armed Forces (last held rank: Major)

  • 1974 - 1977

    National Service (Full-time), Singapore Armed Forces

Leong TY & MLF Cheong
2012. “Multi-party Multi-period Supply Chain Coordination,” International  Journal of Industrial and System Engineering 10(3):300-318.

Leong TY & NL Ma
2011. “Inkjet Printer Pricing,” INFORMS Transactions on Education 11(3):132-137

Leong TY & WL Lee
2010. “Spreadsheet Modeling to Determine the Optimum Hotel Room Rate for a Short High-Demand Period,” INFORMS Transaction on Education 11(1): 35-42.

Leong TY & MLF Cheong
2009. “Spreadsheet Modeling of Hotel Room Sales and Demand Distribution Estimation,” Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education 7(1): 89-97.

Leong TY & MLF Cheong
2008a. “Spreadsheet Modeling of Equipment Acquisition Plan,” Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education 6(2): 365-373.

Leong TY & MLF Cheong
2008b. “Teaching Business Modeling using Spreadsheets,” INFORMS Transactions on Education 9(1):20-34.

Leong TY & WL Lee
2008. “Spreadsheet Data Resampling for Monte-Carlo Simulation,” Spreadsheet in Education 3(1):70-78.

Leong TY
2007a. “Monte Carlo Spreadsheet Simulation using Resampling,” INFORMS Transactions on Education 7(3):188-200.

Leong TY
2007b. “Simpler Spreadsheet Simulation of Multi-server Queues,” INFORMS Transactions on Education 7(2):172-177.

Leong TY & CH Chu
2007. “Wireless Network Design: a Space-filling Curve Approach,” International Journal of Mobile Network Design and Innovation 2(3-4):180-189.

Lau HC, SF Cheong, TY Leong, JH Park & ZY Zhao
2007. “Multi-period Combinatorial Auction Mechanism for Distributed Resource Allocation and Scheduling,” IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT), Nov: 407-411, San Jose, USA.

Zhao ZY, TY Leong, SS Ge & HC Lau
2007. “Bidirectional Flow Shop Scheduling with Multi-Machine Capacity and Critical Operations Sequencing,” IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control, October, Singapore.

Leong TY & HC Lau
2007. “Generating Job Schedules for Vessel Operations in a Container Terminal,” 2nd Multidisciplinary International Conference on Scheduling: Theory and Applications (MISTA), August, Paris, France.

Leong TY & CH Chu
2007. “Wireless Network Design: a Space-filling Curve Approach,” 6th International Conference on Information and Management Sciences, July 1-6, Lhasa, Tibet, China (won the conference’s best paper award).

Bish EK, FY Chen, TY Leong, BL Nelson, JWC Ng & D Simchi-Levi
2005. “Dispatching Vehicles in a Mega Container Terminal,” OR Spectrum 27(4):491-506.

Bish EK, TY Leong, CL Li, JWC Ng & D Simchi-Levi
2001. “Analysis of a New Vehicle Scheduling and Location Problem,” Naval Research Logistics 48(5):363-385.

Leong TY & SP Ladany
2001. “Optimal Cruise Itinerary Design Development,“ International Journal of Services Technology and Management 2(1/2):130-141.

Hum SH & TY Leong
1995. “A Multistage Framework for Understanding and Managing Industrial Automation,” International Journal of Vehicle Design 16(2/3):140-149.

Bitran G & TY Leong
1995. “Co-production of Substitutable Products,” Production Planning and Control 6(1):13-25.

Bitran G & TY Leong
1992. “Deterministic Approximations to Co-production Problems with Service Constraints and Random Yields,” Management Science 38(5):724-742.

  • 2009 - 2011

    Member, Advisory Board, Singapore Institute of Materials Management

  • 2009

    Reviewer, ASTAR National Technology Award

  • 2002 - 2004

    Member, First Maritime R&D Advisory Panel, Singapore Maritime & Port Authority

  • 2001 - 2002

    Member, Departmental Consultative Committee, ISE Department, NUS

  • 1999

    Delegate, PSA Corp, 19th IAPH World Ports Conference, KL

  • 1996 - 1998

    Member, Port Experts Sub-group, APEC Transportation Working Group

  • 1996 - 1998

    Member, Steering Committee, APEC Transportation Congestion Points Studies

  • 1996

    Delegate, SG government team, APEC Transportation WG Meeting, Vancouver

  • 1996

    Delegate, SG government team, OECD-Asia Emerging Economies Dialogue, Paris

  • 1991

    Member, Transportation Sectoral Study Group, IT2000, SG National Project Committee

  • 1992

    Member, Technical committee, Int’l Conf on Optimization Techniques & Applications

  • 1990

    Associated editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research

  • 1990

    Contributing Editor, International Abstracts in Operations Research

  • 2011

    PSA Corporation Ltd: Business Spreadsheet Modeling Workshop

  • 2009

    IDS Logistics International Ltd: Total Landed Cost Study

  • 2009

    John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd: Support for Asia/Australia version of a Textbook

  • 2008

    Singapore Cruise Centre: Operations Analysis and Capacity Evaluation Study

  • 2007

    Y3/YCH: Supply Chain Restructuring Study

  • 2007

    EADS Singapore: Logistics R&D Landscape Study

  • 2006

    Prime Partners Corporate Finance Pte Ltd: Regional Financial Index Computation Study

  • 2003

    Singapore Cruise Centre: Operations Analysis and Capacity Evaluation Study

  • 2003

    Changi International Airport Services Pte Ltd: Ops Analysis & Capacity Evaluation Study

  • 1995

    Motorola Electronics Pte Ltd: Strategic Planning Review

  • 1994

    Chartered Institute of Transport: External Examiner

  • 1992

    The Polyolefin Company (S) Pte Ltd: Operations Analysis and Capacity Evaluation Study

  • 1991 - 1992

    Apple Computers Singapore Pte Ltd: Ops Planning and Executive Improvement Studies

  • 1990 - 1991

    Port of Singapore Authority: Operations Management Workshop

  • Exploratory modeling for strategic, tactical and operational decision-support
  • Conceptual design of complex manufacturing and service delivery systems
  • Applications of IT in manufacturing, supply chain, and general services
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