Dr. Vedpal Arya

Research Fellow

Project Lead and Researcher

Years of Experience

  • 6 Years

Education

  • PhD (Industrial Engineering) and Master of Technology (Industrial Engineering).
  • Certificate course in digital twin development, Certificate programme in warehouse management.

Skills and Expertise

    • Core Competencies: Domain knowledge in ports and smart maritime logistics, digital twin, resilience, sustainability, supply chain end to end decisions, contributed actively in product development from concept until commercialization realizing market fit products, crafting research grants proposals and scientific research writing.
    • Technical Skills: Simulation modeling, decision support methodologies covering multiple domains, product development, predictive modeling, FTOP
    • Soft Skills: lead multi disciplinary teams, a learner with empathy, compassion & integrity
    • Languages: English, Hindi, Sanskrit.

Achievements and Contributions

  • Major Accomplishments:
    (1) Project: Filed NUS IP under the development entitled ‘Benchmarking container ports’ encompassing smartness, greenness and resilience.
    (2) Co-authored research articles in the stated domain.
  • Innovations/Improvements: Port benchmarking (unique platform demonstration), 5 Year service award, NUS.

Professional Development

  • Training Completed: System design workshop, O2DES, Flex Term Open Platform.
  • Future Learning Goals: Dive deeper into simulation, Agentic AI and integration in simulation domain, continue to lead and contribute in projects and research KPIs.
  • Mentorship Activities: Guided three internships, co-guided master’s thesis NUS Undergraduate projects, Mentored NSWS students, trained masters student.