Associate Professor Ng Bor Kiat brings with him close to 40 years of industry experiences and extensive involvements in research and development, system management, maintenance engineering and project management. He was previously the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at SMRT, Chief Maintenance & Engineering Officer of the Singapore Armed Forces and a Consultant to NUS Temasek Systems Institute. Bor Kiat holds a Master’s degree in Military Vehicle Technology from Cranfield Institute of Technology (UK) and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical Engineering) degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan). He is a Chartered Engineer in Railway and Transportation Engineering and a Chartered Engineer in Systems Engineering conferred by the Institution of Engineers Singapore. He attended the Programme for Management Development Programme at Harvard University.

Dr Hoh Hsin Jen specialises in Reliability Data Analysis and Fracture and Fatigue Mechanics of Materials. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (1st Hons) and a PhD from Nanyang Technological University (NTU). He was a postdoctoral research fellow at NTU, working at the SMRT-NTU Corporate Lab and the Maritime Institute@NTU.

Mr. Sim Cheng Hwee is one of the most experienced practitioners of creative problem-solving using advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics with almost 30 years of experience in the public and private sectors. He studied at Yokohama National University under Japan’s Mombusho Scholarship awarded through PSC and graduated in 1983 with a B.Eng. in Naval Architecture. He won a Ministry of Defence scholarship in 1988 to study Operations Research at the US Naval Postgraduate School and graduated in 1989 with an M.Sc. (with Distinction).

He oversaw all aspects of operations research work in MINDEF as Head Ops Analysis Dept in the Chief Defence Scientist Office for many years and was concurrently the Head of Planning for the Defence Technology Group (now called Defence Science & Technology Agency) for about 2 years. In this role, he was heavily involved in developing planning policies and processes to continuously renew the organisation and better its position for the future. Prior to his studies in the US, he was serving his PSC bond in the Naval Logistics Department as a Naval Architect where he was involved in hovercraft, condition-monitoring, and computer-aided drawing projects.

He is also a Past President of the Operations Research Society of Singapore, and a member of INFORMS (US-based OR professional society). He was appointed Adjunct Professor at Zhejiang University Ningbo Institute of Technology from Jun 2009 to May 2011 and was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Institute of System Science – National University of Singapore and the Singapore Civil Service College. He served on the Scientific Advisory Committee for National Research Foundation’s Future Resilient Systems research programme. He also teaches Analytics in Industry 4.0 in NUS to familiarize organizations with the technologies driving digital transformation and the issues arising from such efforts. His areas of expertise include logistics and supply chain planning, strategic planning, and manpower planning. He was a member of the Life-Cycle Management project team in MINDEF which compiled the manual providing policy and process guidance on how systems are planned, acquired, maintained and retired.