Curriculum Vitae Associate Professor Leong Thin Yin
UniSIM College
Tel
: +65 6248 0157
Education Qualifications
1985 - 1990 Ph.D. in Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Dissertation on Production Planning Under Stochastic Yield and Substitutable Demand:
Applications in Manufacturing and Service
Major in Operations Management / Operations Research
1977 - 1981 Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours), National University of Singapore
Major in Mechanical and Production Engineering
Academic and Professional Experience
2012 - 2013 Associate Professor (Education), School of Information Systems, Singapore
Management University
2008 - 2010 Associate Dean (Strategic Planning & Initiatives), School of Information Systems,
Singapore Management University
2003 - 2011 Associate Professor (Practice), School of Information Systems, Singapore Management
University
Consultancy
• St. Luke’s Hospital: Enterprise Risk Management workshop
• PSA Corporation Ltd: Business Spreadsheet Modeling workshop
• IDS Logistics International Ltd: Total Landed Cost study
• John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd: Support work for Asia/Australia version of a management textbook
• Singapore Cruise Centre: Operations Analysis and Capacity Evaluation study
• Y3/YCH: Supply Chain Restructuring study
• EADS Singapore: Logistics R&D Landscape study
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Membership and Professional Activities
• Refereed and reviewed articles for Operations Research, Interfaces, Journal of Manufacturing and
Operations Management, Sloan Management Review, Decision Science Institute Conference, Naval
Research Logistics, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Asia-Pacific Journal of Management,
and the Institute of Engineers Singapore Journal
• Life Member of the Operational Research Society of Singapore. Served as an Associated Editor in
the Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Contributing Editor of the International Abstracts in
Operations Research
Research Interests
• Spreadsheet as an exploratory modeling and decision-support tool
• Conceptual design of complex IT, service delivery, and manufacturing systems
• Applications of OR and IT in manufacturing, supply chain, logistics, and other service operations
Selected Publications
Journal Articles (Refereed)
“Multi-party Multi-period Supply Chain Coordination”, by Thin Yin LEONG and Lee Fong, Michelle CHEONG,
2012, 10, 3, International Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Inderscience, 300-318, United
Kingdom.
“Inkjet Printer Pricing”, by Thin Yin LEONG and Nang Laik MA, 2011, 11, 3, pg 132-137, INFORMS
Transactions on Education, United States Of America.
“Spreadsheet Modeling to Determine the Optimum Hotel Room Rate for a Short High-Demand Period”, by
Thin Yin LEONG and Wee Leong LEE, 09/2010, 11, 1, INFORMS Transactions on Education, 35-42,
United States Of America.
“Spreadsheet Modeling of Hotel Room Sales and Demand Distribution Estimation”, by Thin Yin LEONG
and Michelle LF CHEONG, 2009, Vol. 7, 1, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education, Decision
Sciences Institute, 89-97, United States of America.
Conference Papers (Refereed):
“Multi-period combinatorial auction mechanism for distributed resource allocation and scheduling”, by Hoong
Chuin LAU, Shih-Fen CHENG, Thin Yin LEONG, Jong Han PARK, and Zhengyi ZHAO, 11/2007, 407-
411, IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-07), San Jose, USA
“Bidirectional Flow Shop Scheduling with Multi-Machine Capacity and Critical Operations Sequencing”,
by ZhengYi ZHAO, Thin Yin LEONG, Shushi Sam GE, and Hoong Chuin LAU, 10/2007, 8, IEEE Multi-
Conference on Systems and Control, Singapore .
Book:
Business Modeling With Spreadsheets: Problems, Principles and Practice, 3rd edition, by Thin Yin LEONG
ad Lee Fong, Michelle CHEONG, 978-981-4595-15-5, McGraw-Hill, Singapore, 2015.
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Working Papers:
“The Future of Logistics and Transportation Hubs: An Analytic Evaluation”, by Thin Yin LEONG, 1995, Faculty
of Business Administration Working paper, N.U.S.
“Analytic Benchmark Ratios for Logistics Operations Auditing”, by Thin Yin LEONG, 1995, Faculty of Business
Administration Working paper, N.U.S.
“Project Evaluation with Fallibility: Decision Framework and Characterization”, by Thin Yin LEONG and
Winston T H KOH, 1995, Faculty of Business Administration Working paper, N.U.S.
Updated 28 September 2015
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