Geoffrey Chua

Dr Geoffrey Chua is Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He is also Academic Director for the Nanyang Executive MBA (EMBA) program. He received his PhD in management with specialization in decision sciences from the National University of Singapore.

His research interests are in the areas of supply chain management, humanitarian operations and the interface between operations and marketing. He has published in leading academic journals such as Operations Research, Production and Operations Management (POM), European Journal of Operational Research, Naval Research Logistics and Operations Research Letters. He currently serves on the editorial board of POM, and was on the editorial board of Computers & Operations Research from 2016 to 2019. He was awarded the Research Excellence Award by NBS in 2015 and 2011. He was also awarded a MOE Tier 2 research grant (2016-2019) to study coordination of humanitarian operations for disaster management in Asia.

Dr Chua has taught operations management, supply chain management, service operations, and management science at the PhD, EMBA, PMBA, MBA, MSc and undergraduate levels. He received the Teaching Excellence Award from NBS in 2014 and was nominated for the NBS Teacher of the Year award three times (2019, 2018, 2014). He also actively consults for organizations such as Hewlett-Packard, OCBC Bank, ST Engineering, Alstom, Royal Golden Eagle Group, UPS Singapore, Jacobs Douwe Egberts, Ministry of Health, and Singapore Red Cross.

He is Fellow of the Renaissance Engineering Programme (REP) since 2016 and Senator of the NTU Academic Council since 2020. He was previously Deputy Director for REP (2018-2019) and Honorary Treasurer of the Operational Research Society of Singapore (2017-2019). In 2015, he was selected for The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) award by Junior Chamber International (JCI) Philippines.

Education

• PhD National University of Singapore (2004 — 2009)
• MS University of the Philippines (2000 — 2004)
• BS Ateneo de Manila University (1994 — 1998)

Companies

• Associate Professor Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2016)
• Academic Director, Nanyang Executive MBA Nanyang Technological University (2020 — 2021)
• Deputy Director, Renaissance Engineering Programme Nanyang Technological University (2018 — 2019)
• Assistant Professor Nanyang Technological University (2009 — 2016)
• Research Scholar National University of Singapore (2004 — 2009)
• Lecturer/Program Director Ateneo de Manila University (2000 — 2004)

Publications

• Hub and Chain: Process Flexibility Design in Non-Identical Systems Using Variance Information, with Shaoxiang Chen and Zhiguang Han, European Journal of Operational Research, Forthcoming.
• Market Structure and the Value of Overselling Under Stochastic Demands, with Wei Shi Lim and Wee Meng Yeo, European Journal of Operational Research, 252(3): 900-909, 2016
• Unsold versus Unbought Commitment: Minimum Total Commitment Contracts with Nonzero Setup Costs, with Quan Yuan, Xing Liu and Youhua Frank Chen, Production and Operations Management, 24(11): 1750-1767, 2015.
• On the Effect of Demand Randomness on Inventory, Pricing and Profit, with Yan Liu, Operations Research Letters 43(5): 514-518, 2015.
• On the Performance of Sparse Process Structures in Partial Postponement Production Systems, with Mabel Chou and Huan Zheng, Operations Research 62(2): 348-365, 2014.
• Process Flexibility Revisited: The Graph Expander and Its Applications, with Mabel Chou, Chung‐Piaw Teo and Huan Zheng, Operations Research 59(5): 1090‐1105, 2011
• On Range and Response: Dimensions of Process Flexibility, with Mabel Chou and Chung‐Piaw Teo, European Journal of Operational Research 207(2): 711‐724, 2010.
• Design for Process Flexibility: Efficiency of the Long Chain and Sparse Structure, with Mabel Chou, Chung‐Piaw Teo and Huan Zheng, Operations Research 58(1): 43‐58, 2010.

Awards & Recognition

• Finalist, ITOM Division Teaching Excellence Award, NTU 2012, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020
• Nominee for NBS Teacher of the Year (TOY) Award, NTU 2014, 2018, 2019
• Participant, Harvard Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, Harvard Business School 2017
• The Outstanding Young Men (TOYM), Philippines 2015
• Nominee for Nanyang Education Award (School), NTU 2015
• ITOM Division Research Excellence Award, NTU 2011, 2015
• ITOM Division Teaching Excellence Award, NTU 2014
• Finalist, ITOM Division Research Excellence Award, NTU 2014
• Participant, Emerging Scholars Program, POMS 2012
• NUS Research Scholarship 2004 – 2009
• President’s Graduate Fellowship, NUS 2006, 2007
• Best Theoretical Paper, APORS Conference 2006
• Young Scholar Award, APORS Conference 2006
• Study Fellowship, Hong Kong Baptist University 2001
• University Scholar, University of the Philippines 2000 – 2001
• Honorable Mention, Ateneo de Manila University 1998