JOEL GOH

Professor, Department of Analytics and Operations, NUS Business School
Director, J.Y. Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre
Deputy Director, NUS Global Asia Institute
PhD Program Director, NUS Institute of Operations Research and Analytics

BRIEF BIO

My primary research agenda centers around three applied research domains: healthcare analytics, supply chain analytics, and the operations of service platforms. My work in healthcare analytics falls into four separate themes: (a) preventing, detecting, and treating health conditions, (b) incentives in healthcare, (c) workplace stressors and health, and (d) hospital operations. In the domain of supply chain analytics, I’m primarily interested in understanding how new business models, enabled by digital technology, can be harnessed to unlock hidden efficiencies in supply chains. Finally, I am interested in understanding how service platforms can operate more effectively, which can be achieved through changes in operating policies or different forms of information provision. I also have secondary research interests in methodologies for optimal decision-making and co-created Robust Optimization Made Easy (ROME), a software package for modeling robust optimization problems.

I currently serve as an Associate Editor at Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Service Science, and Health Care Management  Science, as well as a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management.

Previous academic appointments:
2020-2025: Dean’s Chair Associate Professor, NUS Business School
2017-2020: President’s Assistant Professor, NUS Business School
2017-2022: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School
2014-2017: Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School


SELECTED HONORS

2023Best MBA Teaching (core), NUS Business School
2023Wickham Skinner Teaching Innovation Award, Production and Operations Management Society
2021NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award, National University of Singapore
2021Best MBA Teaching (core), NUS Business School
2021Teaching Excellence Award, NUS Business School
2020MBA Professors to look out for, BusinessBecause
2020Early Career Research Excellence Award, NUS Business School
2020Teaching Excellence Award, NUS Business School
202040 Under 40 Best MBA Professors, Poets & Quants
2019Finalist, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Society
20193rd Place, JFIG Paper Competition, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group
2018Teaching Excellence Award, NUS Business School
2014Finalist, George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, INFORMS
2014Winner, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Society
2012Finalist, Best Student Paper Competition, POMS College of Supply Chain Management
2012Finalist, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Society
2001Gold Medal, XXXII International Physics Olympiad