Prof. TANG Loon Ching,
National University of Singapore, Singapore
TANG Loon Ching, Professor, Director of Temasek Defence Systems Institute and Head of Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, obtained his Ph.D degree from Cornell University in Operations Research in 1992. He has published extensively and has been presented with a number of best paper awards including the IIE Transactions 2010 Best Application Paper Award and 2012 R.A. Evans/P.K. McElroy Best Paper Award. Prof Tang is the main author of the award-winning book: Six Sigma: Advanced Tools for Black Belts and Master Black Belts. Besides being active in the forefront of quality research, in the last 20 years, Prof Tang has served as consultant of many organizations on a wide range of problems that demand innovative applications of optimization, probability and statistics; as well as projects aiming at improving operational efficiency. He is currently on the editorial board of the Journal of Quality Technology, the flagship journal of ASQ; and the advisory board of Singapore Innovation and Productivity Institute. He is also the elected Region VP (Asia) of Institute of Industrial Engineers.