Melvyn Sim

Melvyn Sim is a Professor and Provost’s Chair in the Department of Analytics & Operations at the NUS Business School, National University of Singapore. He holds affiliations with the Institute of Operations Research and Analytics (IORA), NUS Risk Management Institute, and Singapore-MIT Alliance. His research focuses on decision-making and optimization under uncertainty, with applications in healthcare, finance, supply chain, and engineered systems. He is a prominent figure in robust optimization and has received multiple accolades including the NUS Outstanding Young Researcher Award (2009) and INFORMS JFIG Best Paper Competition (2007).

Dr. Sim earned his PhD in Operations Research from MIT (2004), S.M. in Computational Engineering from Singapore-MIT Alliance (2000), and degrees in Electrical Engineering from NUS (1995-1996). He has held academic roles including Deputy Head of the Department of Decision Sciences (2009–2011) and Dean’s Chair (2009–2012). His editorial roles include associate editorships for Operations Research, Management Science, and Mathematical Programming Computations.

His research interests emphasize robust optimization frameworks addressing ambiguity in decision models, with practical applications such as healthcare resource allocation and supply chain resilience. He has pioneered methodologies like RSOME (Robust Stochastic Optimization Made Easy), enabling tractable robust decision-making models.

• Awards: Multiple NUS Researcher Awards, Nicholson and JFIG paper competitions, and Singapore-MIT Alliance Fellowships.
• Grants & Labs: Leads IORA, advancing operations research and analytics for national priorities like the Smart Nation initiative.