When Singapore’s largest public healthcare cluster, SingHealth, looked for ways to plan its future hospitals, a team of final-year students from NUS’s Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM) stepped up to the challenge. Their task: to build a tool that could help healthcare planners anticipate and prepare for the demands of Singapore’s evolving
As part of the activities to encourage discussions and raise awareness regarding challenges, solutions and issues relating to climate change in parallel with the annual climate talks in Brazil, AlterCOP was held in Singapore from 10-22 November 2025 at the Singapore Sustainability Academy. Dr Goh Tian from the ISEM Department conducted a workshop on 21
Congratulations to ISEM’s incoming Assistant Professor, Dr. Bo Lin, for achieving First place in the George B. Dantzig Dissertation Award at the INFORMS annual meeting this year! The George B. Dantzig Award is given for the best dissertation in any area of operations research and the management sciences that is innovative and relevant to practice.
We are proud to announce that five ESI Staff, including two of ISEM’s very own faculty staff, Professor Ang Beng Wah and Dr Su Bin, along with Professor Chou Siaw Kiang, Professor Lee Poh Seng, and Dr Roger Fouquet, are ranked in the top 2% of scientists in the world in a recent Stanford study
Our faculty member, Assistant Professor Cheung Wang Chi, has been featured in the latest edition of the CDE Research Newsletter. This issue is appropriately titled: AI+X, as it covers a topic that has impacted every facet of society: artificial intelligence. Asst Prof Cheung and his PhD student devised a new theoretical framework to lay the
During the June school holidays, NUS organized two runs of the 3-day Energy and Decarbonisation Youth Programme, which was held at the Education Resource Centre, University Town. It was facilitated by Prof Ang Beng Wah and Dr Goh Tian from the ISEM Department. Students from Yusof Ishak Secondary School, Bukit Merah Secondary School, Temasek Polytechnic
In 2022, ASEAN Cableship Pte Ltd gifted an expendable sum of S$15,000 to establish the ASEAN Cableship Prize to encourage and recognise our Master of Science (Maritime Technology and Management) graduates who have displayed excellence in their academic studies. This year, the ASEAN Cableship Award has been awarded to Ashref Afshin, our Master of Science
We are delighted to announce that two of our faculty staff members, Emeritus Professor Ang Beng Wah and Dr Su Bin, are ranked among the world’s Top Scientists in 2025 by Research.Com (https://research.com/). This 4th edition of the ranking contains the h-index, publications, and citation values collected on 27th November 2024. The 4th edition of Top
On 22 March 2025, the ISEM department hosted the Net Zero Emissions System Analysis Workshop as part of the College of Design and Engineering’s “Day in the Life – D&E Scholar” event. A total of 23 prospective students participated in the two-hour workshop, gaining insights into how industrial and systems engineering tools and analysis can
Congratulations to Dr. Goh Thong Ngee on receiving the Distinguished Professor Award from the IEOM (Industrial Engineering and Operations Management) Society International! Dr. Goh is currently an Emeritus Professor at the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering and Management (ISEM) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He was also Former Head of ISEM and