Faculty Profile

Education

Current Position(s) Held

Awards, Recognition and Honors

Professional Activities

Teaching Interests

Research Interests

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.

• 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. 

Research Advisor/Co-Research Advisor To

• SUN Yujie, PhD in Business (Operations Management)
• WANG Xiangdong, (xd.wang.2020@sjdba.smu.edu.sg), SJTU-SMU DBA
• GU Jie, (jiegu.2021@sjdba.smu.edu.sg), SJTU-SMU DBA
• WANG Feng, (fengwang.2019@ckdba.smu.edu.sg), CKGSB-SMU DBA
• ZHANG Yanhong, (zhangyh.2019@ckdba.smu.edu.sg), CKGSB-SMU DBA
• ZHANG Yong, (yong.zhang.2016@ckdba.smu.edu.sg), CKGSB-SMU DBA

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