Professional Service

Editorship

External examiner

Invited talk

Service to professional bodies

Referee for journal

Referee for conference

Session/Track chair

Special session/track organizer

Conference committee

Editorship

1. Associate Editor, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

2. Area Editor, Manufacturing Systems, International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management

3. Editorial Board Member, Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application, An International Journal

4. Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Internet Manufacturing and Services

5. Editorial Board Member, Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers

External examiner

1. MEng Thesis, Web based do-it-yourself design using virtual prototype, University Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia (June 2003)

2. Ph.D Thesis, Real-Time Generic Hospital Capacity Estimation under Emergency Situations, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA (December 2004)

3. Ph.D Thesis, Supply chain inventory control for the iron and steel industry, University of Vaasa, Finland (September 2006)

4. MPhil Thesis, Product Architecture Network: Representing Modular Product Families for Mass Customization, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong (December 2005)

5. M.Eng Thesis, The Effect of Communication and Problem-solving Pattern on Collaborative Product Development Performance, National University of Singapore (October 2007)

6. External Reviewer, Petro-Canada Young Innovator Awards Program, Concordia University, Canada (September 2006)

Invited talk

1. Keynote Speech, SAP Business One Forum for SMEs, Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore (July 2007)

2. Keynote Speech, Workshop on Supply Chain Management and Logistics, The Finnish Ministry of Transport and Communications, EGLO program, Helsinki, Finland (November 2005)

3. Keynote Speech, The 7^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Beijing, China (2000)

4. Keynote Speech, The 8^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Tianjin, China (2001).

5. Tutorial on Customer-Driven Enterprising, The 11^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering, Beijing, China (July 2004)

6. Technical talk on Mass Customization, Beijing Jiao Tong University, Beijing, China (May 2001)

7. Technical talk on Global Manufacturing & Supply Chain Management, Nokia Mobile Phones Corporation, Salo, Finland (November 2003)

8. Technical talk on Global Supply Chain Management, Teleste Corporation, Turku, Finland (November 2003)

9. Technical talk on Coordinating Customer, Product, Process and Logistics Decisions in Global Manufacturing Supply Chains, ABB Corporate Research Center, Vaasa, Finland (June 2005)

10. Technical talk on Global Manufacturing Supply Chain Management, Logistics Program, Department of Production Economics, University of Vaasa, Finland (June 2005)

11. Technical talk on Product Family Configure-to-order Platforms, School of Mechanical Engineering, Xi’an Jiao Tong University, China (September 2005)

12. Technical talk on Extended Product Family Platforms, School of Mechanical and Energy Engineering, Zhejiang University, China (December 2005)

13. Technical talk on Coordinating Product, Process and Logistics Decisions in Mass Customization Production, Australian National University, Australia (May 2006)

14. Technical talk on Global Manufacturing Management, Northeastern University, China (June 2006)

15. Technical talk on Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, Tianjin University, China (June 2006)

16. Technical talk on Coordinated Design, Production and Supply Chain Decision Making in Global Manufacturing, Peking University, China (June 2006)

17. Technical talk on Product Family Design, Industrial Workshop on Mass Customization, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taipei, Taiwan (June 2006)

18. Technical talk on Product Family Design and Platform-Based Product Development, Southern Taiwan Innovation and Research Park, Tainan, Taiwan (July 2006)

19. Technical talk on Extended Product Family Platforms for Global Manufacturing Enterprise, Cambridge University, UK (July 2006)

20. Technical talk on Product Recreation – A Systems Realization Perspective, Georgia Tech, USA (April 2007)

21. Technical talk on Mass Customization, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (December 2007)

Service to professional bodies

1. President, IEEE Engineering Management Society (Technology Management Council), Singapore Chapter (2007 – Present)

2. Secretary, IEEE Engineering Management Society, Singapore Chapter (2005 – 2006)

3. Treasurer, IEEE Engineering Management Society, Singapore Chapter (2002 – 2004)

4. Founding member, International Institute of Mass Customization and Personalization (2003 – Present)

Referee for journal

1. Advanced Engineering Informatics

2. AIEDAM

3. ASME Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering

4. ASME Journal of Mechanical Design

5. Computers & Industrial Engineering

6. Computers in Industry

7. Concurrent Engineering: Research and Application

8. Decision Support Systems

9. Engineering with Computers

10. Enterprise Information Systems

11. European Management Journal

12. IBM Journal of Research and Development

13. IEEE Communications Magazine

14. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering

15. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management

16. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics

17. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans

18. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews

19. IIE Transactions

20. Information Sciences

21. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering

22. Integrated Manufacturing Systems

23. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology

24. International Journal of Computer Applications in Technology

25. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing

26. International Journal of Integrated Supply Management

27. International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management

28. International Journal of Innovation and Technology Management

29. International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

30. International Journal of Manufacturing Technology & Management

31. International Journal of Production Research

32. International Journal of Production Economics

33. International Journal of Operations and Production Management

34. International Journal of Operations Research

35. International Journal of Services Operations and Informatics

36. International Journal of Services Technology and Management

37. International Journal of Simulation and Process Modeling

38. International Journal of Systems Science

39. Journal of the Chinese Institute of Industrial Engineers

40. Journal of Engineering Design

41. Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing

42. Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management

43. Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology

44. Management Research News

45. Production and Operations Management

46. Research in Engineering Design

47. Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory

Referee for conference

1. ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (USA, 2008)

2. The 2nd International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (Spain, 2008).

3. IIE Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (Vancouver, Canada, 2008)

4. IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (China, 2008)

5. ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (Atlanta, USA, 2007)

6. The 12th IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (Patras, Greece, 2007)

7. The 5th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (Vienna, Austria, 2007)

8. The 2007 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference (Vancouver, Canada, 2007

9. ASME 33rd Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (USA, 2007)

10. The 32^nd ASME Design Automation Conference (USA, 2006)

11. The 18^th ASME International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (USA, 2006)

12. The 26^th ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (USA, 2006)

13. The 13^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (France, 2006)

14. The 4^th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (Singapore, 2006)

15. The 9^th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (Singapore, 2006)

16. IEEE International Conference on Management and Innovation and Technology (Singapore, 2006)

17. The 31^st ASME Design Automation Conference (USA, 2005)

18. The 17^th ASME International Conference on Design Theory and Methodology (USA, 2005)

19. The 25^th ASME Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (USA, 2005)

20. The 12^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (USA, 2005)

21. IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (Singapore, 2004)

22. The 11^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (China, 2004)

23. The 10^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Portugal, 2003)

24. The 2^nd World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Germany, 2003)

25. ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences (Canada, 2002)

26. International Conference on Project Management (Singapore, 2002)

27. International CIRP Design Seminar (Hong Kong, 2002)

28. The 1^st World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2001)

29. International Conference on Integrated Logistics (Singapore, 2001)

30. ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences (USA, 2000)

Session/Track chair

1. IIE Annual Industrial Engineering Research Conference (Vancouver, Canada, 2008)

2. The World Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization (MIT, USA, 2007)

3. The 9th IEEE International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (Singapore, 2006)

4. The 13th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (France, 2006)

5. The 4th International IEEE Conference on Industrial Informatics (Singapore, 2006)

6. The 16th CIRP International Design Seminar (Canada, 2006)

7. INFORMS 2006 International Conference (Hong Kong, 2006)

8. The 3^rd Interdisciplinary World Congress of Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2005)

9. IEEE Conference on Cybernetic and Intelligent Systems (Singapore, 2004)

10. The 9^th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering – Theory, Applications and Practice (Auckland, 2004)

11. The 11^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Beijing, 2004)

12. The 4^th International Conference on Construction Project Management (Singapore, 2004)

13. International Conference on Service Systems and Service Management (Beijing, 2004)

14. The 7^th International Conference on Work With Computing Systems (Kuala Lumpur, 2004)

15. The 10^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Portugal, 2003)

16. The 2^nd International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Singapore, 2003)

17. The 3^rd International Conference on Electronic Business (Singapore, 2003)

18. The 2^nd World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Germany, 2003)

19. The 7^th Southeast Asian Ergonomics Society and 4^th Malaysian Ergonomics Conference (Malaysia, 2003)

20. The 4^th Asia-Pacific Conference on Industrial Engineering and Management Systems (Taiwan, 2002)

21. International CIRP Design Seminar (Hong Kong, 2002)

22. International Conference on Project Management (Singapore, 2002)

23. International Conference on Integrated Logistics (Singapore, 2001)

24. The 1^st World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2001)

25. IEEE International Conference on Management of Innovation and Technology (Singapore, 2000)

Special session/track organizer

1. The World Conference on Mass Customization and Personalization (MIT, USA, 2007)

2. ASME 33rd Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Las Vegas, USA, 2007)

3. ASME 32^nd Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Philadelphia, USA, 2006)

4. INFORMS 2006 International Conference (Hong Kong, 2006)

5. The 11^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Beijing, 2004)

6. The 10^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Portugal, 2003)

7. The 2^nd World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Germany, 2003)

8. The 1^st World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2001)

Conference committee

1. Chair of Program Committee, The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (Singapore, 2008)

2. Member of Organizing Committee, IEEE International Conference on Management and Innovation and Technology (Singapore, 2008)

3. Member of Technical Program Committee, The 2nd International Workshop on RFID Technology - Concepts, Applications, Challenges (Spain, 2008).

4. Member of Program Committee, The 4th World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (MIT, USA, 2007

5. Member of Program Committee, International CRM, CIS & Service Symposium (Hong Kong, 2007)

6. Member of Organizing Committee, ASME 33rd Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Las Vegas, USA, 2007)

7. Member of Program Committee, The 9th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, (Madeira, Portugal, 2007)

8. Member of Program Committee, The 2007 Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) International Conference (Vancouver, Canada, 2007)

9. Chair of Organizing Committee, The IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (Singapore, 2007)

10. Member of Program Committee, The 2nd International Conference on Mass Customization (Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 2006)

11. Member of Scientific Committee, The 1^st International Workshop on Systems and Complexity (Helsinki, Finland, 2006)

12. Member of Organizing Committee, ASME 32^nd Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Philadelphia, USA, 2006)

13. Member of International Program Committee, The 13^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (France, 2006)

14. Publicity chair, IEEE International Conference on Management and Innovation and Technology (Singapore, 2006)

15. Member of Organizing Committee, ASME 31^st Design Automation Conference, ASME Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (Long Beach, USA, 2005)

16. Member of technical committee, The 3^rd Interdisciplinary World Congress of Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2005)

17. Program co-chair, member of International Program Committee, The 11^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (China, 2005)

18. Member of International Program Committee, The 12^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Dallas, USA, 2005)

19. Member of technical committee, The 3^rd Interdisciplinary World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2005)

20. Treasurer, member of technical and organizing committees, IEEE International Engineering Management Conference (Singapore, 2004)

21. Member of International Program Committee, The 11^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Beijing, 2004)

22. Tutorial chair, member of organizing committee, The 7^th International Conference on Work with Computing Systems (Kuala Lumpur, 2004)

23. Member of International Scientific Committee, The 10^th ISPE International Conference on Concurrent Engineering (Portugal, 2003)

24. Member of technical committee, The 2^nd Interdisciplinary World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Munich, Germany 2003)

25. Member of organizing committee, International Conference on Project Management (Singapore, 2002)

26. Member of organizing committee, International CIRP Design Seminar (Hong Kong, 2002)

27. Member of technical and organizing committees, The 1^st Joint China-USA International Conference on Industrial Engineering & the 8^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (Tianjin, 2001)

28. Member of technical and organizing committees, The 1^st World Congress on Mass Customization and Personalization (Hong Kong, 2001)

29. Member of technical and organizing committees, The 7^th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (Guangzhou, 2000)

30. Conference general secretary, member of organizing committee, The 3^rd Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering Theories, Applications and Practice (Hong Kong, 1998)