TANG Loon Ching

TANG LOON CHING, Ph.D

TANG Loon Ching is a Professor at the Department of Industrial Systems Engineering & Management (ISEM) in National University of Singapore (NUS). He has served as the Director of Temasek Defence Systems Institute from 2014 to 2020 and the Head of Department of ISEM from 2008-2015. He has been appointed as a honorary adjunct professor of the Harbin Institute of Technology from 2018-2022. He has also been elected as the Region Vice President (Asia) for the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE) from 2012-2015.

LC Tang obtained his PhD in the field of operations research from Cornell University in 1992 under the NUS Overseas Scholarship. Prior to that, he graduated with a BEng (first class honors) in mechanical engineering and MEng (ISE) from NUS. He has published widely in many leading international journals in the field of Industrial Engineering & Operations Management (IEOM). He was presented the IISE Transactions 2010 Best Application Paper Award and the prestigious Ralph A. Evans/P.K. McElroy Awards for the best paper presented at 2011 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. Both awards were the first time that they went to authors who are Singapore-based researchers while the latter was also the first time that the award went to authors affiliated to an Asian University in its 58-year history. He has been named 2014 IEOM Outstanding Educator by the IEOM Forum. He is a Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management.

LC Tang is the Editor-in-Chief of Quality and Reliability Engineering International, an international journal devoted to practical engineering aspects of quality and reliability; and has been on the editorial review board of the Journal of Quality Technology, which is the flagship journal of American Society for Quality, since 2006, among others. He is the main author of the book: Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts (which is the winner of the inaugural Masing Book Prize by International Academy of Quality); and a co-author of Markov-Modulated Processes and Semiregenerative phenomena.  He is one of the founding members of Global Ports Research Alliance, IIE Asian Network and the steering committee of Logistics and Maritime Systems Conference Series; and has served as the General Chair of these conference series during their formation years. In recent years, he has focused his research on systems resilience and is a principal investigator of the Future Resilient systems programme (phase I and II) funded by the National Research foundation. He has frequently been invited as a keynote speaker for international conferences in the field of industrial engineering and reliability.

Besides being active in the forefront of research in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, LC Tang has also been engaged as consultant/trainer by many government agencies and MNCs in their enterprise transformation initiatives. He has served on the advisory board of DSTA Academy (2015-2020) and also served on the advisory board of Singapore Innovation and Productivity Institute (2011-2015). To-date, he has trained and mentored more than 100 Master Black Belts and provided training to thousands of data analysts, engineers and managers, from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Israel, China, USA, Indonesia, India and the Philippines in the areas of Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, Engineering Asset Management, Operations Research and Reliability Engineering.

 

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简历

董润楨于1992年获颁美国康乃尔大学运筹学博士，目前是新加坡国立大学工业系统工程与管理系正教授，同时也是哈尔滨工业大学的荣誉兼职教授。曾于2008-2015年间任该系系主任，并于2014-2020年间出任淡马锡国防系统所所长，当选为国际工业与系统工程师协会2012-2015年间的亚太区副主席，也受邀成为国际工程资产管理协会会士。

董博士于1987年毕业自新加坡国立大学机械工程系（一等荣誉学位）并受聘留校当高级助教，在1988年八月赴美深造前完成工业与系统工程系的工程硕士学位。1992年七月博士毕业后回国任职，至今从事教育、科研、行政、咨询及培训工作近三十年，对运筹、统计与概率的理论及应用融会贯通，善于数据分析及建模优化，且能付诸实践，并将之融入软件开发，常能为企业取得事半功倍的效果。近年来从事的研究包括系统韧性工程、质量与可靠性工程、物流及系统优化等, 在国际刊物发表百多篇这几方面的文章。近年常受邀于相关的国际会议做主题报告，曾获颁2011年度国际可靠性与维修工程年会最佳文章奖、2010年度IIE Transactions最佳应用文章奖、2004年国际可靠性学会最佳技术性文章奖。自2006年起受委美国质量学会旗舰国际期刊Journal of Quality Technology 编委，2016年起受委为国际期刊Quality & Reliability Engineering International主编。十几年前总结在质量及可靠性工程与管理（六西格码）的心得, 撰写“Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belt and Master Black Belt” (John Wiley) 一书，出版后即获颁2007年国际质量学会(International Academy for Quality)的首届书籍奖(Masing Book Prize)；另合著有关随机过程理论专书 “Markov-Modulated Processes and Semiregenerative Phenomena”。在咨询及培训方面，董博士曾为多家本地机构与跨国企业如内政部、国家电网、国家生产力与标准局、国防科技局、希捷、菲力浦、惠普、宏腾国际等服务，并在中国、馬来西亚、泰国及其他东南亚国家为多间跨国企业培训出数千名学员，和上百名六西格码黑带大师。获颁2014年度工业工程与运营管理杰出教育工作者奖，并曾受委为国家创新与生产力所（2011-15）以及国防科技局培训学院（2015-20）的咨询委员。

Education

• BEng (1987) 1^st class honours Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore;
• MEng (1989) Industrial & Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore;
• MSc (1991) Operations Research; Cornell University, USA.
• PhD (1992) Operations Research with minors in Statistics and Civil Engineering, Cornell University, USA.

Key Research Output/Awards

• IIE Transactions 2010 Best Application Paper Award: Tang LC et al, A reliability modelling framework for the hard disk drive development process”. IIE Transactions, 42 (4) 2010: 260-272.
• Ralph A. Evans/P.K. McElroy Awards for the best paper presented at 2011 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium (RAMS): Tang LC and Liu X, Spares provisioning for repairable systems under fleet expansion. This is by far the most prestigious award in the field of applied reliability.
• Stan Ofsthun Award presented by the Society of Reliability Engineers for the most outstanding technical papers in the 2004 Reliability and Maintainability Symposium.
• ANBAR Citation of Highest Quality Rating for the paper published in European Journal of Operational Research (1999).
• IEOM Outstanding Educator 2014 by the IEOM Forum

Research Interests

• Systems resilience and reliability;
• Quality management & Six Sigma;
• Industrial Statistics and Applied operations research;
• Competitiveness assessment of aviation and maritime industries

Selected Publications

1. Cassottana, B., Shen, L., Tang, L.C. Modeling the recovery process: A key dimension of resilience. (2019) Reliability Engineering and System Safety, in press.
2. Liu, X., Tang, L.C. Reliability analysis and spares provisioning for repairable systems with dependent failure processes and a time-varying installed base. (2016). IIE Transactions 48 (1), pp. 43-56.
3. Chong, Y.T., Teo, K.M., Tang, L.C. A lifecycle-based sustainability indicator framework for waste-to-energy systems and a proposed metric of sustainability. (2016) Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 56, pp. 797-809.
4. Ye, Z.-S., Tang, L.-C. Augmenting the Unreturned for Field Data With Information on Returned Failures Only. (2016) Technometrics, 58 (4), pp. 513-523.
5. Tang, L C, S W Lam, QY Ng and JS Goh, “A reliability modeling framework for the hard disk drive development process”. IIE Transactions, 42 (4) 2010: 260-272. (Best Application Paper Award 2010).
6. Tang, L C and X Liu, “Planning and inference for a sequential accelerated life test”. Journal of Quality Technology, 42, no. 1 (2010): 103-118.

Book Publications

1. Pacheco A, LC Tang and NU Prabhu (2008). Markov-Modulated Processes and Semiregenerative phenomena, 236pp, World Scientific.
2. Tang, LC; et al (2006). Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts, 410pp, John Wiley. (Inaugural Masing Book Prize in 2007).
3. EP Chew, LH Lee, LC Tang, Edit (2009). Advances in Maritime Logistics and Supply Chain Systems, 315pp. World Scientific.

Research Projects (Last 5 Years)

1. CREATE Future Resilient Systems 2 (2020-2024) with a total funding of S$25M: PI for Cluster 1, Cyber-physical systems resilience
2. CREATE Future Resilient Systems 1 (2015-2019) with a total funding of S$40M: PI for Energy Resilience.
3. CREATE Environment and Energy Sustainable Solutions (2013-2017) with a total funding of S$24M: PI for Supporting Platform 1.

Membership of Editorial Boards

• Editor-in-Chief, Quality and Reliability Engineering International (2016-present), an international peer-review journal focusing on translational research related to quality, reliability and maintenance (published by John Wiley)
• Member of Editorial Review Board for Journal of Quality Technology (2007-present); the flagship journal of American Society for Quality. This journal is widely recognized as one of the best in the field of quality engineering.

• Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Chinese Inst of Industrial Engineers (2011-present)
• Associate editor for Asia Pacific Journal of Operational Research (1997-2003)

Invited keynote presentations (with Sponsorship) at International Conferences (2015-2019)

1. Invited keynote speaker, The 4th International Conference on Systems Reliability & Safety, Rome, November 2019.
2. Invited keynote speaker, The 2nd International Conference on Healthcare Management, Taiwan, June 2019.
3. Invited keynote speaker, The 6^th International Conference Industrial Engineering & Applications, Tokyo, April 2019
4. Invited keynote speaker, The 3rd International Conference on Systems Reliability & Safety, Barcelona, November 2018.
5. Invited keynote speaker, The 8^th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Qingdao, August 2018
6. Invited keynote speaker, The 5^th International Conference Industrial Engineering & Applications, Singapore, April 2018.
7. Invited keynote speaker, The 2nd International Conference on Systems Reliability & Safety, Milan, December 2017.
8. Invited keynote speaker, World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, Brisbane, August 2017.
9. Invited keynote speaker, 2017 IEEE International Conference on Prognostic and Health Management, Harbin, July 2017.
10. Invited keynote speaker, The 2nd International Conference on Reliability Systems Engineering, Beijing, July 2017.
11. Invited keynote speaker, ETH Risk Center Dialogue Event, Zurich, January 2016.
12. Invited keynote speaker, The 5th International Conference on Quality, Reliability, Risk, Maintenance, and Safety Engineering, Beijing, July 2015
13. Invited panel speaker, APEC Forum on Supply Chain, Atlanta, June 2015
14. Invited keynote speaker, The 1st International Reliability Engineering Conference, Bali, April 2015
15. Invited keynote speaker, The 11^th International Industrial Engineering Conference, Tehran, Jan 2015.

Selected Industrial Engagements

Besides being active in the forefront of research in Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, LC Tang has also been engaged as consultant/trainer by many government agencies and MNCs in their enterprise transformation initiatives. To-date, he has trained and mentored more than 100 Master Black Belts and provided training to more than 3000 analysts, engineers and managers, from Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Israel, China, USA, Indonesia, India and the Philippines in the areas of Lean Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma, Engineering Asset Management, Operations Research and Reliability Engineering. In particular, he has been engaged as a consultant on system design, reliability and asset management programmes by PSB (1995-1998), RSAF (1996-97), Seagate (2000-07), United Premas (2002-08), Philips DAP (2004-05), Electra (2005-08), SP Power (2011-15), SCDF (2013-14), DSO (2016), ST Engineering (2017/8), and Ministry of Home Affair (2011-present).