NG Kien Ming

Education

• Ph.D. in Management Science and Engineering
  Stanford University
• M.S. in Engineering-Economic Systems and Operations Research
  Stanford University
• B.Sc.(Hons) in Mathematics
  National University of Singapore

Research Interests

• Discrete and Nonlinear Optimization
• Scheduling and Routing
• Timetabling
• Operations Research Methods in Military

Selected Publications

1. Ng, K.M., Solayappan, M. and Poh, K.L. (2011), Global energy minimization of alanine dipeptide via barrier function methods, Computational Biology and Chemistry, 35(1), 19-23
2. Quan N., Yin J., Ng S.H., Lee L.H. (2012), Simulation Optimization via Kriging: A Sequential Search using Expected Improvement with Computing Budget Constraints. IIE Transactions, accepted to appear.
3. Tran, T.H. and Ng, K.M. (2011), A water flow algorithm for flexible flow shop scheduling with intermediate buffers, Journal of Scheduling, 14(5), 483-500
4. Prabhu Gaonkar, R.S., Xie, M., Ng, K.M. and Habibullah, M.S. (2011), Subjective operational reliability assessment of maritime transportation system, Expert Systems with Applications, 38(11), 13835-13846
5. Gunawan, A. and Ng, K.M. (2011), Applying two metaheuristics for the teacher assignment problem, International Journal of Information and Management Sciences, 22(1), 73-86