Faculty Profile

1987

Ph.D, Mathematics,
University of California, Santa Barbara, California

1984

M.A., Applied Mathematics,
University of California, Santa Barbara, California

1977

Bachelor of Science (Honors),
University of Manchester

Professor of Quantitative Methods
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Deputy Dean
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University

Member, Governing Board
NOL Fellowship Programme, National University of Singapore

Editor
Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal

• Awarded Public Administration Medal, 2013

• Awarded Lee Kong Chian School of Business Research Excellence Award , 2009

• Highlighted Research Paper, "Global soucing using local content tariff rules" was highlighted in Industrial Engineer, the professional magazine of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE), May 2007

• Awarded Lee Kuan Yew Award for Research Excellence (Honorable Mention) , 2004

• Recipient, Wharton-SMU Research Grant Awards , 2003 - 2005

• Awarded 2nd Prize in National Techno-Venture Business Plan Competition, 2002

• Awarded Certificate of Recognition for Public Service, Singapore Public Service, 1999

• Singapore Pre-University Scholarship Award for outstanding students, 1970 - 1971

• Heuristics

• Convex Optimisation

• Logistics

• Supply Chain Management

• "Quadratic Two-Stage Stochastic Optimization with Coherent Measures of Risk", by SUN J., Brian RODRIGUES and LIAO L., 2018, 168(1-2), Mathematical Programming, 599-613

• "A 3/2 - approximation algorithm for the multiple TSP with fixed number of depots", by Brian RODRIGUES and Z. XU, 2015, INFORMS Journal of Computing

• "An analysis of the extended Christofides heuristic for the k-depot Travelling Salesman Problem", by Brian RODRIGUES and Z XU, 2011, 39, 3, Operations Research Letters, 218-223

• "Pricing and inventory control for a perishable product", by Y. LI, A. LIM, and Brian RODRIGUES, 2009, 11, 3, Manufacturing and Service Operations Management, 538-542

• "Transportation procurement with seasonally-varying shipper demand and volume guarantees", by A. LIM, Brian RODRIGUES, and Z. XU, 2008 , 56 , 3, Operations Research, 758 - 772

• "Global sourcing using local content tariff rules", by Y. LI, A. LIM, and Brian RODRIGUES, 2007 , 39 , 5, IIE Transactions , 425-437

• "A local search using solution fragments for the 2-machine bi-criteria scheduling problem", by G. HUANG, A. LIM, and Brian RODRIGUES, 2007, 37, 2, Computational Optimization and Applications, 212-229

• "Manpower allocation with time windows and teaming constraints", by Y. LI, A. LIM, and Brian RODRIGUES, 2005, 55, 11, Naval Research Logistics, 1178 - 1186

• "A note on the optimal EOQ for announced price increases in the infinite horizon", by A. LIM and Brian RODRIGUES, 2005, 53, 4, Operations Research, 731-732

• "k-center problems with minimum coverage", by A. LIM, Brian RODRIGUES, F. WANG, and Z. XU, 2005 , 332 , 1-3, Theoretical Computer Science, pp. 1 -17

• "Meta-heuristics with local search for retail shelf allocation optimization", by A LIM, Brian RODRIGUES, and X. ZHANG, 2004, 50, 1, Management Science, 117 - 131

• "Port yard storage optimization", by P CHEN, Z. FU, and Brian RODRIGUES, 2004, 1, 1, IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 26-38

• “The open mapping and closed range theorems” Brian RODRIGUES, SIMONS S, 1989, 283, Mathematische Annalen, 87 – 95

• "Conjugate functions and subdifferentials in non-normed situations for operators with complete graphs", by Simons S, and Brian RODRIGUES, 1988 , 12 , 10, Nonlinear Analysis: Theory and Applications and Methods, 1069 – 1078

• "Reducing transportation costs in distribution networks", by X. LI, A. LIM, ZW. MIAO, and Brian RODRIGUES, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2006

• "A multi-exchange heuristic for a production location planning problem", by Y. GUO, A. LIM, and Brian RODRIGUES, Lecture Notes in Computer Science , 2005

• "Solving a crane scheduling problem using intelligent search schemes", by Brian RODRIGUES, A. LIM, and Z. XU, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, M. Wallace, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Volume 3258, 2004, pp. 747 - 751

• "Transshipments through crossdocks with inventory and time windows", by Brian RODRIGUES, A. LIM, Z. MIAO, and Z. XU, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Kyung-Yong Chwa, J. Ian Munro, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Volume 3106, 2004, pp. 122 - 126

• "k-center problems with minimum coverage", by Brian RODRIGUES, A. LIM, F. WANG, and Z. XU, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science , Kyung-Yong Chwa, J. Ian Munro, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg , Volume 3106, 2004, pp. 349 - 354

• "Approximation schemes for the crane scheduling problem", by Brian RODRIGUES, A. LIM, and Z. XU, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Torben Hagerup, Jyrki Katajainen, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Volume 3111, 2004, pp. 323 - 335

• "Integrated genetic algorithm with hill climbing for the bandwidth minimization problem", by Brian RODRIGUES, A. LIM, and F. XIAO, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, Volume 2724, 2003, pp. 1594 - 1595