Faculty Profile

LIM Yun Fong

Full-time Faculty

Professor of Operations Management

Lee Kong Chian School of Business LKCSB

Education

2005	Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology
1998	M.S. in Computational Science National University of Singapore
1996	B.S. in Physics National Central University

Current Position(s) Held

2023 - Now	Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2022 - 2024	Academic Director, Blended MSc in Management (BMiM) Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2020 - 2023	Academic Director, MSc in Management (MiM) Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2017 - 2020	Program Coordinator, PhD in Business (Operations Management) Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2015 - 2017	Area Coordinator of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2013 - 2023	Associate Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University
2005 - 2013	Assistant Professor of Operations Management Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Awards, Recognition and Honors

Featured by Financial Times for a top patent article showing positive impact of business school insights on innovation, 2024

ISCOM Conference Best Paper Award (2nd Prize), 2022

Supervised Winner, The DSI Annual Conference Best Student Paper Award, 2022

Supervised Finalist, The Best Student Paper Competition of POMS-HK International Conference, 2022

Supervised Finalist, The Best Student Paper Competition of POMS-HK International Conference, 2020

CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention), 2015

MPA Research Fellow, 2020-2021, 2022-2023

Chang Jiang Chair Professor (长江学者讲座教授), 2016-2019

Lee Kong Chian Fellow, 2017-2018

Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) Fellow, 2012-2014

SMU Teaching Excellence Innovative Teacher Award, 2010

Dean's Teaching Honour List - Top Faculty Members, 2006-2024
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Professional Activities

Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2021 - present

Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2020 - present

Guest Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2020 (Special Issue: Managing Autonomous and IoT-driven Intralogistics Operations)

Guest Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2019 (Special Issue: Analytics and Operations of Online Retailing)

Member, Governing Board, NOL Fellowship Program, 2018-present

Chair, Conference on Next Generation Retail Operations 2016, Singapore

Program Committee Member, MSOM 2019, Singapore

Program Committee Member, CSAMSE 2019, Chengdu, China

Program Committee Member, POMS-HK International 2016, Macau

Program Committee Member, POMS International 2014, Singapore

Cluster Chair of Workforce Management, INFORMS 2009, 2011, 2012

Teaching Interests

Online Business and Marketplaces (MiM, MBA)

High Performance Warehousing and Fulfillment (BBM)

Research Interests

e-Commerce and Marketplace Analytics

Online Retailing (Supply Chains and Fulfillment)

Online Platforms (Business Model Innovations)

Sustainable Urban Systems

Flexible Workforce and Resource Management

Selected Journal Articles (Refereed)

Deng Q, Li X, Lim YF, Liu F (2024). Optimal policies and heuristics to match supply with demand for online retailing. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 26(5): 1925-1944.
Chen S, Yan Z, Lim YF (2024) Managing the personalized order-holding problem in online retailing. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 26(1): 47-65.
Jin Z, Wang Y, Lim YF, Pan K, Shen Z-JM (2023) Vehicle rebalancing in a shared micromobility system with rider crowdsourcing. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 25(4): 1394-1415.
Li L, Fang X, Lim YF (2023) Asymmetric information of product authenticity on C2C e-commerce platforms: How can inspection services help? Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 25(2): 631-647.
- Finalist, The Best Student Paper Competition of The POMS-HK International Conference 2022
Wang P, Pan K, Yan Z, Lim YF (2022) Managing stochastic bucket brigades on discrete work stations. Production and Operations Management, 31(1): 358-373.
Lim YF, Jiu S, Ang M (2021) Integrating anticipative replenishment allocation with reactive fulfillment for online retailing using robust optimization. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 23(6): 1616-1633.
Deng Q, Fang X, Lim YF (2021) Urban consolidation center or peer-to-peer platform? The solution to urban last-mile delivery. Production and Operations Management, 30(4): 997-1013.
- Featured by Financial Times as a top patent article showing positive impact of business school insights on innovation, Nov 08, 2024
Lim YF, Lu B, Wang R, Zhang W (2020) Flexibly serving a finite number of heterogeneous jobs in a tandem system. Production and Operations Management 29(6): 1431-1447.
Lim YF, Wang C (2017) Inventory management based on target-oriented robust optimization. Management Science 63(12): 4409-4427.
Lim YF (2017) Performance of cellular bucket brigades with hand-off times. Production and Operations Management 26(10): 1915-1923.
Lim YF, Wang Y, Wu Y (2015) Consignment contracts with revenue sharing for a capacitated retailer and multiple manufacturers. Manufacturing and Service Operations Management 17(4): 527-537.
- CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention), 2015
Lim YF, Wu Y (2014) Cellular bucket brigades on U-lines with discrete work stations. Production and Operations Management 23(7): 1113-1128.
Ang M, Lim YF, Sim M (2012) Robust storage assignment in unit-load warehouses. Management Science 58(11): 2114-2130.
Lim YF (2011) Cellular bucket brigades. Operations Research 59(6): 1539-1545.
Lim YF, Yang KK (2009) Maximizing throughput of bucket brigades on discrete work stations. Production and Operations Management 18(1): 48-59.
Bartholdi JJ III, Eisenstein DD, Lim YF (2009) Deterministic chaos in a model of discrete manufacturing. Naval Research Logistics 56(4): 293-299.
Bartholdi JJ III, Eisenstein DD, Lim YF (2006) Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly network. European Journal of Operational Research 168(3): 870-879.

Selected Book Chapters (Refereed)

Wang C, Lau HC, Lim YF (2015) A rolling horizon auction mechanism and virtual pricing of shipping capacity for urban consolidation centers. Corman F et al. eds. Computational Logistics. ICCL 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9335, 422-436, Springer, Cham.
Lim YF (2012) Order-picking by cellular bucket brigades: A case study. Manzini R ed. Warehousing in The Global Supply Chain (Springer-Verlag, London), 71-85.

Selected Grants

General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Project Title: Data-Driven Risk-Averse Operations for Autonomous Electrified Mobility Systems, Award Amount: S$109,081 (HKD 630,491), 2024-2026.
General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Project Title: Data-Driven Resilience Design for Integrated Grid and Mobility Systems, Award Amount: S$129,283 (HKD 760,493), 2022-2025.
General Research Fund, Research Grants Council of Hong Kong, Project Title: Data-Driven Planning for Smart-Vehicle-Grid Integration Systems, Award Amount: S$120,053 (HKD 667,500), 2020-2023.
Key Program of National Natural Science Foundation, Project Title: Theories and Methods of New Retail Operations Management, Award Amount: S$465,334, 2020-2024.
MOE Tier 1 Academic Research Fund, Project Title: Integrating Inventory Management and Order Fulfillment for Online Retailing, Award Amount: S$135,840, 2017-2019.
A*STAR - SERC Grant, Project Title: Market Mechanisms for Multi-Party Coordination of Urban Logistics Operations, Award Amount: S$578,400, 2013-2015.
Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) Fellowship, Project Title: Robust Warehouse Management, Award Amount: S$140,000, 2012-2014.

Former Graduate Students/Postdocs

Ruijie ZHANG (PhD, 2018-2023), Assistant Professor, School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University.
Linqiu LI (Postdoc, 2021-2022), Assistant Professor, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China.
Peng WANG (PhD, 2016-2021), Assistant Professor, School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences.
Dong YU (CKGSB-SMU DBA, 2015-2021), Chairman, Bona Film Group 博纳影业集团.
Qiyuan DENG (PhD, 2015-2020), Assistant Professor, School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen).
Yue WU (MSc, 2009-2011), Associate Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh.