PhD (Industrial & Systems Eng.), Georgia Institute of Technology, 2005

MS (Industrial Engineering), Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001

MS (Computational Science), National University of Singapore, 1998

BS (Physics), National Central University, 1996

Academic Positions Held

Current Appointment:

Assistant Professor, Singapore Management University, 2005-Present

Other Positions

Engineer / Senior Engineer, Kent Ridge Digital Labs, 1998–2000

Editorial & Conference Activities

Cluster Chair, INFORMS 2009, San Diego, California, USA

Stream Chair, IFORS 2008, Sandton, South Africa

Honours & Awards

Dean's Teaching Honour List, Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU, 2006-2008

IIE Doctoral Colloquium Fellow, Institute of Industrial Engineers, 2004

Graduate Tutorship, National University of Singapore, 1997–1998

Excellent Academic Performance Award, Overseas Chinese Affairs Commission, 1996

Courses Taught in SMU

Business Processes

High Performance Warehousing and Fulfillment

Advanced Business Processes

Selected Consulting Activities

Maxden, Singapore (featured in Lianhe Zaobao, Oct 16, 2008)

A major distributor of service parts in North America, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Changi International Airport, Singapore

Research Areas

Production and Supply Chain Management

Self-Organizing Systems (Bucket Brigades)

Warehousing and Fulfillment in Supply Chains

Revenue Management

Current Projects

Dynamic pricing for hotels considering multiple-day stays, with Q. Ding and K.K. Yang, submitted.

A linear storage-retrieval policy for robust warehouse management, with M. Ang and M. Sim, submitted.

Cellular bucket brigades.

Self-organizing logistics systems in a container terminal.

Supply chain contracts for a single capacitated retailer and multiple manufacturers, with Y. Wang.

Order-picking optimization, with J.J. Bartholdi, III.

Selected Book, Journal & Other Publications

J.J. Bartholdi, III, D.D. Eisenstein, and Y.F. Lim (2009), “Deterministic chaos in a model of discrete manufacturing”, Naval Research Logistics, forthcoming.

Y.F. Lim and K.K. Yang (2009), “Maximizing throughput of bucket brigades on discrete work stations”, Production and Operations Management, forthcoming.

J.J. Bartholdi, III, D.D. Eisenstein, and Y.F. Lim (2006), “Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly networks”, European Journal of Operational Research, 168(3), 870–879.

M. Henz, R.H.C. Yap, Y.F. Lim, S.C. Lua, J.P. Walser, and X.P. Shi (2004), “Solving hierarchical constraints over finite domains with local search”, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, 40(3–4), 283–301.

Y.F. Lim, K. Chen, and C. Jayaprakash (2002), “Scale-invariant behavior in a spatial game of prisoners’ dilemma”, Physical Review E, 65, 026134.

Y.F. Lim and K. Chen (1998), “Dynamics of dry friction: a numerical investigation”, Physical Review E, 58(5), 5637–5642.