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Academic Position

Singapore Management University
  • Associate Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems
    January 2015 to present
  • Urban Fellow, Urban Institute
    August 2023 to present
  • Deputy Director (Research), Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering Corp Lab
    October 2014 to September 2020
    • A S$27m research lab jointly funded by Fujitsu (Japan) and National Research Foundation (Singapore).
    • Focus on research with real-world impact in urban mobility, logistics, and crowd management.
  • Assistant Professor, School of Computing and Information Systems
    December 2006 to December 2014

Education

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • B.S.E., Department of Mechanical Engineering
    September 1993 to June 1997

Other Experience

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  • Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
    January 2006 to April 2006
    • Teaching assistant for IOE 310: Introduction to Optimization Methods.
  • Graduate Student Research Assistant, January 2006 to April 2006
    • Member of Strategic Reasoning Group (PI: Michael P. Wellman).
    • Member of Dynamic Systems Optimization Lab (PI: Robert L. Smith).
OLE Technology Corp
  • Research Engineer, Department of Mechanical Engineering
    July 1999 to June 2001
    • Software startup company on Product Life Cycle Management system.
Compulsory Military Service
  • Lecturer, Second Lieutenant, Taiwan Army
    July 1997 to June 1999

Research Interests

  • Urban computing and sustainable urban operations
  • Mobility-on-demand systems
  • Mobile crowdsourcing
  • Last-mile logistics
  • Agent-based modeling and simulation
  • Large-scale optimization models and computational methods

Honors and Awards

Sponsored Research

  • PI: "Enabling Sustainable Point-to-Point Transport Service via Behavioral Game Theory".
    Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 1, January 2024 - December 2025, S$124,990.
  • Co-PI: "The Impacts of On-demand Platforms under Individual Choice Endogeneity" (with Ying Xu (SUTD) as PI).
    Ministry of Education Academic Research Fund Tier 2, 2023 - 2025, S$382,187.
  • PI: "Learning by Doing in the Age of Big Data".
    Ministry of Education Social Science Research Thematic Grant, Aug 2021 - Jul 2024, S$579,318.
  • PI: "Smart Barrier-Free Access (SmartBFA) 2.0".
    Mercurics, May 2021 - Apr 2022, S$50,000.
  • Co-PI: "Not for Girls?: Gender Imbalance in STEM and Its impact on Female Students' Creative Performance" (with Chi-Ying Cheng).
    Ministry of Education Tertiary Education Research Fund, June 2021 - May 2023, S$192,673.
  • PI: "Intelligent Taxi Queue Management".
    Changi Airport Group, Oct 2019 - Sep 2021, S$200,000.
  • Co-Lead PI: Fujitsu-SMU Urban Computing and Engineering Lab (with Hoong Chuin Lau).
    Jointly funded by Fujitsu and National Research Foundation, Nov 2014 - Oct 2019, S$27,000,000.
  • Co-PI: "Context-Aware Large-Scale Mobile Crowd-Sourcing" (with Archan Misra).
    Xerox Research Center India (XRCI), July 2013 - July 2016, USD$150,000
  • Co-PI: "Coordinating Automated Para-Transit Service Operations" (with Hoong Chuin Lau).
    Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Jan 2011 - Dec 2015, S$482,515.
  • PI: "Optimizing Taxi Fleet Operations".
    Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology Centre, Nov 2010 - Aug 2011, S$46,211.
  • PI: "Commodity Trading Simulation".
    The Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, Oct 2010 - Mar 2011, S$4,589 (equivalent credit).
  • Co-PI: "Policy Implications of Position Limits: An Agent-based Analysis" (with Bernard Lee and Annie Koh).
    The Institute for Financial Markets, May 2010 - Sep 2010, USD$15,000.
  • PI: "Creating a Better Commodity Trading Simulation - A Multi-Agent Approach".
    SMU International Trading Institute, July 2008 - June 2009, S$37,350.
  • PI: "Exploring Agent-based Computational Models".
    Wharton-SMU Research Centre, May 2008 - May 2009, S$39,050
  • PI: "Market-Based Approaches for Dynamic Resource Allocation Problems".
    SMU Office of Research, Mar 2007 - Feb 2008, S$30,100.
  • PI: "Designing the Market Game for a Commodity Trading Simulation".
    International Enterprise Singapore, Feb 2007 - Jan 2008, S$47,266.

Publications & Presentations

Complete Listing.

Course Taught

  • CS603: Multi-agent Systems (Postgraduate), 2018 - now
  • CS426 (formerly IS418): Agent-based Modeling & Simulation, 2017 - now
  • COR-IS1702 (formerly IS103): Computational Thinking, 2013 - now
  • IS418: Intelligent Business Gaming, 2010 - 2017
  • IS102: Computer as an Analysis Tool, 2007 - 2013
  • Commodity Trading Simulation, 2007 - 2011
  • IS418: Intelligent Agent Design & Applications, 2007 - 2008
  • Quantitative Finance Workshop: Introduction to C++, 2007 - 2009
  • Computational Optimization with Python, 2022 (for Singapore Data Science Consortium)

Thesis Chair (PhD)

  • Jian Bin Liew, August 2023 - now
  • Pang Jin Tan, August 2021 - now
  • Qian Shao, August 2020 - now
    • Thesis Title: Real-world Considerations in Human Decision Making
    • Awarded SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2023.
  • Mengyu Ji, August 2019 - July 2023
    • Thesis Title: Analyzing Taxi Drivers' Decision-making and Recommending Strategies for Enhanced Performance: A Data-driven Approach
    • Assistant Professor, Luoyang Institute of Science and Technology, China.
  • Chung-Kyun Han, January 2016 - December 2020
    • Thesis Title: Efficient Algorithms for Trajectory-Aware Mobile Crowdsourcing
    • Awarded SMU Presidential Doctoral Fellowship, 2020.
    • Engineering Manager, LG Display.
  • Larry Lin (co-supervised with Hoong Chuin Lau), January 2014 - December 2018
    • Thesis Title: Modeling Movement Decisions in Networks: A Discrete Choice Model Approach
    • Data Scientist, Grab.
  • Cen Chen (co-supervised with Hoong Chuin Lau), January 2013 - June 2017
    • Thesis Title: Recommending Personalized Schedules in Urban Environments
    • Associate Professor, School of Data Science and Engineering, East China Normal University.
  • Jiali Du (co-supervised with Hoong Chuin Lau), July 2012 - June 2017
    • Thesis Title: Proactive and Reactive Strategies to Handle Surges in Urban Crowds
    • Data Scientist, Booking.com.

Thesis Chair (EngD)

  • Asyikeen Azhar (co-supervised with Aldy Gunawan), Aug 2020 - now
    • Thesis Title: Enabling Sustainable Mining via AI-based Approaches

Thesis Chair (Master)

  • Duc Thien Nguyen (co-supervised with Hoong Chuin Lau), March 2011 - July 2014
  • Long Foong Liow (co-supervised with Hoong Chuin Lau), August 2009 - June 2012

Thesis Committee Member (PhD)

  • Dexun Li (Chair: Pradeep Varakantham)
  • Jingfeng Yang (Chair: Hoong Chuin Lau)
  • Joe Waldy (Chair: Hoong Chuin Lau)
  • Rajiv Kumar (Chair: Pradeep Varakantham)
  • Meghna Lowalekar (Chair: Pradeep Varakantham)
  • Tanvi Verma (Chair: Pradeep Varakantham & Hoong Chuin Lau)
  • Pritee Agrawal (Chair: Pradeep Varakantham)
  • Na Fu (Chair: Hoong Chuin Lau)

Professional Activities

  • Senior Program Committee membership:
    • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2023, 2024
    • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS): 2018, 2019, 2023, 2024
    • AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP): 2022
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2020, 2024
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Special Track on AI for Social Impact: 2024
  • Program Committee membership:
    • International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS): 2021-2023
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI): 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2021-2023
    • AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Special Track on AI for Social Impact: 2020-2023
    • AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP): 2019-2021
    • International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI): 2013, 2016, 2017, 2020
    • 26th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS World Congress): 2019
    • International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS): 2011, 2013-2017
    • Winter Simulation Conference (WSC): 2018
    • International Workshop on Agents in Traffic and Transportation (ATT): 2012 @AAMAS, 2014 @AAMAS, 2016 @IJCAI, 2018 @IJCAI
    • ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (ACM SAC): 2015, 2016, 2018
    • IEEE International Conference on Agents (ICA): 2016, 2017
    • Duke Forest Conference 2016
    • International Conference on Principles of Practice in Multi-Agent Systems (PRIMA): 2009-2015
    • International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC): 2012, 2013
    • International Workshop on Data-Oriented Constructive Mining and Multi-Agent Simulation @ IAT-13 (2013)
    • Annual IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE): 2010
    • International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security: 2008
  • Editorial Board membership:
    • Senior Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2019 - Now
    • Associate Editor, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, 2013 - 2019
  • Member, 2019 President's Science Awards Selection Committee, 2019
  • Associate Editor, 21st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2018 (ITSC 2018)
  • Demo Chair, Fifteenth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2016 (AAMAS 2016)
  • Chair, IAT-15 Special Session on Agents in Urban Computing and Engineering
  • Publication Chair, 14th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2012
  • Publication Chair, 16th Annual International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC), 2014
  • Member of:
    • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
    • Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
    • Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
  • Reviewer for Springer book proposal on transportation, 2005.
  • Ad hoc referee for:
    • ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology
    • Applied Mathematical Modeling
    • Computational Intelligence
    • Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
    • Discrete Applied Mathematics
    • Electronic Commerce Research and Applications
    • European Journal of Operational Research
    • Geoinformatica
    • IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
    • IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
    • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
    • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
    • IISE Transactions
    • International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
    • International Conference on Information Systems
    • International Journal of Geographical Information Science
    • Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
    • Journal of Global Optimization
    • Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • Operations Research
    • Transportation Research Part A
    • Transportation Research Part C
    • Transportation Science
    • Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
    • Winter Simulation Conference

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