Lee Kong Chian Professor of Operations Management
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University
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Last updated: Oct 15, 2026
e-Commerce and Marketplace Analytics
Online Retailing (Supply Chains and Fulfillment)
Online Platforms (Business Model Innovations)
Sustainable Urban Systems and Smart Cities
Flexible Workforce and Resource Management
Lim YF, Hu K (2022) Online Business and Marketplaces. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
Lim YF, Wang C (2017) Inventory management based on target-oriented robust optimization. Management Science 63(12): 4409-4427. (PDF)
Ang M, Lim YF, Sim M (2012) Robust storage assignment in unit-load warehouses. Management Science 58(11): 2114-2130. (PDF) (Supplemental materials)
Ang M, Lim YF (2019) How to optimize storage classes in a unit-load warehouse. European Journal of Operational Research 278(1): 186-201. (PDF)
Qiu R, Sun M, Lim YF (2017) Optimizing (s, S) policies for multi-period inventory models with demand distribution uncertainty: Robust dynamic programming approaches. European Journal of Operational Research 261(3): 880-892. (PDF) (Supplemental materials)
Ramakrishna KS, Sharafali M, Lim YF (2015) A two-item two-warehouse periodic review inventory model with transshipment. Annals of Operations Research 233(1): 365-381. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
- Finalist, The Best Student Paper Competition of The POMS-HK International Conference 2022
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. (PDF)
- CSAMSE Annual Conference Best Paper Award (Honorable Mention) 2015
Gao G-X, Fan Z-P, Fang X, Lim YF (2018) Optimal Stackelberg strategies for financing a supply chain through online peer-to-peer lending. European Journal of Operational Research 267(2): 585-597. (PDF)
de Koster R, Roy D, Lim YF, Kumar S (2025) IoT in intralogistics: Applications and emerging research. Production and Operations Management 34(11): 3343-3363. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
- Featured by SMU Engage, Mar 13, 2025
- Featured by Financial Times as a top patent article showing positive impact of business school insights on innovation 2024
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. (PDF)
Wang P, Lim YF, Loke GG (2026) Joint capacity allocation and job assignment under uncertainty. Operations Research 74(2): 1047-1069. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
Lim YF (2017) Performance of cellular bucket brigades with hand-off times. Production and Operations Management 26(10): 1915-1923. (PDF)
Lim YF, Wu Y (2014) Cellular bucket brigades on U-lines with discrete work stations. Production and Operations Management 23(7): 1113-1128. (PDF)
Lim YF (2011) Cellular bucket brigades. Operations Research 59(6): 1539-1545. (PDF)
Lim YF, Yang KK (2009) Maximizing throughput of bucket brigades on discrete work stations. Production and Operations Management 18(1): 48-59. (PDF)
Lim YF, Zhang Y, Wang C (2015) A quay crane system that self-recovers from random shocks. Flexible Services and Manufacturing Journal 27(4): 561-584. (PDF)
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. (PDF)
Bartholdi JJ III, Eisenstein DD, Lim YF (2010) Self-organizing logistics systems. Annual Reviews in Control 34: 111-117. (PDF)
- A keynote paper in INCOM 2009, Moscow, Russia
Bartholdi JJ III, Eisenstein DD, Lim YF (2009) Deterministic chaos in a model of discrete manufacturing. Naval Research Logistics 56(4): 293-299. (PDF)
Bartholdi JJ III, Eisenstein DD, Lim YF (2006) Bucket brigades on in-tree assembly network. European Journal of Operational Research 168(3): 870-879. (PDF)
Henz M, Yap RHC, Lim YF, Lua SC, Walser JP, Shi XP (2004) Solving hierarchical constraints over finite domains with local search. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence 40: 283-301. (PDF)
Lim YF, Chen K, Jayaprakash C (2002) Scale-invariant behavior in a spatial game of prisoners’ dilemma. Physical Review E 65: 026134. (PDF)
Lim YF, Chen K (1998) Dynamics of dry friction: A numerical investigation. Physical Review E 58(5): 5637-5642. (PDF)
Senior Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2021-present
Associate Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2020-present
Guest Editor, Production and Operations Management, 2020
- Special Issue on Managing Autonomous and IoT-driven Intralogistics Operations
Guest Editor, Naval Research Logistics, 2019
- Special Issue on Analytics and Operations of Online Retailing
Ruijie ZHANG (PhD, 2018-2023)
– Assistant Professor, School of Entrepreneurship and Management, ShanghaiTech University
– First Prize, The Best Student Paper Competition of The POMS-HK International Conference 2022
– Winner, Presidential Fellowship 2021 and PhD Student Life Award 2021
Linqiu LI (Postdoc, 2021-2022)
– Associate Professor, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China
– Joint work: MSOM 2023
– Finalist, The Best Student Paper Competition of The POMS-HK International Conference 2022
Peng WANG (PhD, 2016-2021)
– Assistant Professor, School of Business, Singapore University of Social Sciences
– Joint work: OR 2026, POM 2022
– Winner, Presidential Fellowship 2020 and PhD Student Life Award 2019
Qiyuan DENG (PhD, 2015-2020)
– Assistant Professor, School of Management and Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen)
– Joint work: MSOM 2024, POM 2021
– Finalist, The Best Student Paper Competition of The POMS-HK International Conference 2020
Song JIU (Postdoc, 2016-2019)
– Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Southwest Jiaotong University
– Joint work: MSOM 2021
Chen WANG (Postdoc, 2012-2015)
– Data Science Manager, Meta
– Joint work: MS 2017
Yue WU (MSc, 2009-2011)
– Associate Professor, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
– Joint work: MSOM 2015, POM 2014
– 2nd Prize, The MIT Sloan’s 7th Annual Operations Simulation Competition 2011
Yanhong ZHANG (CKGSB-SMU DBA, graduated 2024)
– Executive Director and Deputy General Manager, Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group 执行董事与副总经理, 山东魏桥创业集团
Feng WANG (CKGSB-SMU DBA, graduated 2024)
– Chairman, Linglong Group 董事长, 玲珑集团
Nanjing LI (SJTU-SMU DBA, graduated 2022)
– Managing Director, Kingfa Sci. & Tech. Co. Ltd 董事总经理, 金发科技股份有限公司
Dong YU (CKGSB-SMU DBA, graduated 2021)
– Chairman, Bona Film Group 董事长, 博纳影业集团