About
Hello! My name is Hong Ming. I'm an operations researcher particularly interested in stochastic modeling. I work on stuff like antibiotics resistance to ice hockey to pilot training. I currently hold a joint appointment which fulfills my passion for teaching and research together.
In my free time, I am a father of one adorable boy. My initials happen to be short for 'theorem', and it has always been my dream to have a 'THM's thm'.
Lecturer
Department of Analytics & Operations, NUS Business School
National University of Singapore
Research Fellow
Institute of Operations Research and Analytics
National University of Singapore
- City (current): Singapore
- Email: thm at nus dot edu dot sg
- Office: BIZ1-08-72
- Degree: PhD Operations Research and Analytics
I teach analytics in undergraduate and graduate courses, as well as in analytics executive education programs at NUS. I have won several teaching awards. I was previously a lecturer at Temasek Polytechnic and have co-authored three textbooks
Currently, I am leading two industry research projects. The first is on field studies of pilot training for a major airline carrier, and the second is on forecasting possible quality issues and optimal responses to the forecasts for a leading global medical device company. Please check out my research section for my other Work-In-Progress.
I was at MIT as a visiting student of Professor David Simchi-Levi from Jan 2020 to Feb 2020. My visit was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Research Interests
Includes, but not limited to
Decision making under uncertainty
Information Economics
Sports Analytics
Stochastic Control
Research
Published Papers
- Zaman, Z., & Tan, H. M. (2020).
- A Modification to Pull the Goalie that Takes the State of Play into Account: Coach Markov Returns.
- CHANCE, 33(1), 10-15.
Working Papers
- Smart City Investments under Dynamic Information Acquisition (June 23, 2020)
- Jussi Keppo, Hong Ming Tan, and Zhou Chao
- Calibrating Airline Sales Forecast in Volatile Environments: Changepoint Detection and Applications
- Changchun Liu, Hong Ming Tan, Ek Hong Lim, and Chung-Piaw Teo
Work-In-Progress
- Learning and Earning with Offline Data
- Jussi Keppo, Hong Ming Tan, Chung-Piaw Teo, and Minglong Zhou
- Competency and Incompetency in Pilot Training: the Andragogical Approach
- Industry project with SIA Corp Lab
- Optimal Detection of Faulty Batches
- Industry project with global medical device company
- Modelling Antibiotic Resistance
- Depression Forecasting and Stress Staging
Errata
- Owen, D. B. (1980). A table of normal integrals: A table. Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation, 9(4), 389-419.
- While trying to solve some integrals, I found an error with the integral 110 in TABLE I (page 9).
The integral is missing a “b” in the term G(x sqrt(1+b^2) + a/ sqrt(1+b^2)).
It should be G(x sqrt(1+b^2) + ab/ sqrt(1+b^2)).
Teaching
Awards
- Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Award
- 2018/2019
- Letter of Commendation for Graduate Tutor
- 2016/2017
Pedagogy Courses Attended
- Training Programme for Teaching Assistants
- 2016, NUS
- Teaching in Higher Education Certificate (THEC)
- 2014, Temasek Polytechnic
- All
- Graduate
- Undergraduate
- Executive
Testimonials
I'm proud to have touched many people's lives through my teaching.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
PhD Operations Research and Analytics
2017 - 2021
Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, National University of Singapore
Master of Science by Research
2015 - 2017
Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Bachelor of Science (Hons)
2009 - 2013
Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore
Applied Mathematics (Primary Major)
Economics (Second Major)
Professional Experience
Learning Facilitator
2020 - Present
Emeritus Institute of Management
- Business Analytics for Strategic Decisions
- Python for Analytics
Lecturer
2013 - 2015
Mathematics and Statistics Division, Temasek Polytechnic
- Collaborated with NUS Pharmaceutical Science to create interactive webpages using HTML5 elements and Javascript
- Co-authored three textbooks
- Coordinated Online Student Evaluation of Teaching Effectiveness system for the School of Applied Science
- Subject Leader for the subject "Statistics for Applied Science"
- Completed Teaching in Higher Education Certificate
- Completed Data Analytics in Healthcare course
- Completed WSQ 3D Printing for Rapid Product Development course
Professional Development
Appointments
- NUS Teaching Assistant
- MA1105, 16/17 Sem 1
- MA1101R, 16/17 Sem 2
- DSC5101, 18/19 Sem 1, 19/20 Sem 1
- DAO1704/DSC1007, 18/19 Sem 2, 20/21 Sem 2
- NUS Instructor/Lecturer
- DBA5101, 20/21 Sem 1
- Temasek Polytechnic Lecturer
- Subject Leader
- 2013-2015
- Analytics for X Conference 2021
- Local Organising Committee
- MSOM 2019 Conference and SIG Meeting
- Local Organising Committee
Courses Attended
- R Programming Workshop
- 2017, Dr Ben Charoenwong, NUS
- WORKSHOP ON EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGIES
- 2017, NUS
- WSQ 3D Printing for Rapid Product Development
- 2015, NTU
- Data Analytics in Healthcare
- 2015, Dr KC Lun, GATEWAY CONSULTING PTE LTD
Conferences
# denotes presentation by co-author- 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting
- Investment Valuations and Falling Cost of Information, MC29a
- INFORMS-APS 2019
- Equity Valuation and Falling Cost of Data Analytics, Session 3.6
- MSOM 2019 Conference and SIG Meeting
- Investment Valuations and Falling Cost of Information, Session F10
- 2018 INFORMS INTERNATIONAL MEETING
- Investment Decisions and Falling Cost of Data Analytics, Technical Sessions - TD11
- 2018, INFORMS
- 5th NUS-USPC Workshop on Machine Learning and FinTech
- # Investment Decisions and Falling Cost of Data Analytics
- 2017, CQF
- 2017 INFORMS ANNUAL MEETING
- # Investment Decisions and Falling Cost of Data Analytics, Technical Sessions - TE55
- 2017, INFORMS
- Eleventh Annual Risk Management Conference
- # Investment Decisions and Falling Cost of Data Analytics - Working Paper for Scientific Program
- 2017, RMI
Contact
Office:
Mochtar Raidy Building, BIZ1-08-72, !5 Kent Ridge Drive, Singapore 119245
Email:
thm at nus dot edu dot sg