SMA Faculty

Expertise: Multi-functional Spintronic Materials and Devices, Magnetic Nanostructures, Spin Dependent Transport in Nanostructures, Nanofabrication Techniques
Webpage: http://www.ece.nus.edu.sg/stfpage/eleaao/

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Ph.D. - Brown University 1975 Anand studies the theory and practice of constitutive modelling of materials deformation, deformation processing, interface friction, powder deformation, MEMS, and computational modelling of crystalline mechanical behaviour. With several years of research experience at the US Steel Research Laboratory, Anand bridges the gap between science and practical applications. A number of material models co-developed by Anand have been incorporated into major commercial codes that are used internationally. Anand's rate-dependent plasticity model is the standard viscoplasticity model implemented in the commercial finite element programme ANSYS, and his friction models for forming applications - implemented in the finite element programme ABAQUS - have been used heavily by ALCOA and Sandia National Laboratories since 1993. Anand has developed several new subjects in Mechanical Engineering, and he heads the departments curriculum revision and new textbook efforts.

Expertise: Mechanics and materials: micromechanics of inelastic deformation and failure of metals, polymers and powders at macro and microscales; shape-memory and nanocrystalline materials.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering, MIT
Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering - Brown University 1975 Anand studies the theory and practice of constitutive modelling of materials deformation, deformation processing, interface friction, powder deformation, MEMS, and computational modelling of crystalline mechanical behaviour. With several years of research experience at the US Steel Research Laboratory, Anand bridges the gap between science and practical applications. A number of material models co-developed by Anand have been incorporated into major commercial codes that are used internationally. Anand's rate-dependent plasticity model is the standard viscoplasticity model implemented in the commercial finite element programmes ANSYS, and his friction models for forming applications - implemented in the finite element programmes ABAQUS - have been used heavily by ALCOA and Sandia National Laboratories since 1993. Anand has developed several new subjects in Mechanical Engineering, and he heads the department's curriculum revision and new textbook efforts.

Expertise: Continuum mechanics, plasticity, mechanical behavior of materials, deformation processing of metals and polymers.

Expertise: Continuum mechanics, plasticity, mechanical behavior of materials, deformation processing of metals and polymers
Webpage: http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/?id=3

Expertise: MOSFET device physics and technology
Webpage: http://www-mtl.mit.edu/~daa/

Boeing Professor of Operations Research, MIT
Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics and Operations Research - MIT 1988
Ph.D. - University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) 1973 Bertsimas studies the theory and practice of optimisation, as well as the performance, analysis, and control of large-scale stochastic systems. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his work, including the Erlang Prize and the SIAM Optimisation Prize, both in 1996. Bertsimas is the co-author, with John Tsitsiklis, of Introduction to Linear Optimisation (Athena Scientific, 1997) and co-author, with Robert Freund, of the forthcoming Data, Models, and Decisions (Southwestern College Publishing). While much of Bertsimas' work is mathematical in nature, he is also keenly interested in operations research applications in a variety of contexts, including finance, revenue management, supply chain management, and transportation. Currently, he is working on optimising large portfolios, the revenue streams of airlines, and the operations at Panama Canal.

Expertise: Optimization, finance, revenue management, data mining and stochastic control.

Expertise: Optimization, finance, revenue management, data mining and stochastic control
Webpage: http://web.mit.edu/dbertsim/www/

Associate Professor, Nanyang Business School, NTU
Ph.D. - McGill University 1994 Bhatnagar's research encompasses global supply chains, multi-plant coordination, logistics alliances, manufacturing system simulation, shop floor coordination and lead-time management. His studies of benchmarking competitiveness of global supply chains (1995) and the impact of location variables on the performance of global supply chains have been funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education's Applied Research Fund. Bhatnagar was an Assessor for the Singapore Quality Award for 1996, 1997 and 1998, and is a referee for several international journals. As Programme Director of the MBA in Management of Technology at NTU, Bhatnagar developed a graduate course known as the

Associate Professor, Nanyang Business School, NTU
Ph.D. - McGill University 1994 Bhatnagar's research encompasses global supply chains, multi-plant coordination, logistics alliances, manufacturing system simulation, shop floor coordination and lead-time management. His studies of benchmarking competitiveness of global supply chains (1995) and the impact of location variables on the performance of global supply chains have been funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education's Applied Research Fund. Bhatnagar was an Assessor for the Singapore Quality Award for 1996, 1997 and 1998, and is a referee for several international journals. As Programme Director of the MBA in Management of Technology at NTU, Bhatnagar developed a graduate course known as the

Associate Professor,
NTU, Nanyang Business School, Division of Information Technolgy and Operations Management
Ph.D. - McGill University 1994 Bhatnagar's research encompasses global supply chains, multi-plant coordination, logistics alliances, manufacturing systems simulation, shop floor coordination and lead-time management. His studies on benchmarking competitiveness of global supply chains and the impact of location variables on the performance of global supply chains have been funded by the Singapore Ministry of Education's Applied Research Fund. Bhatnagar was an Assessor for the Singapore Quality Award for 1996, 1997 and 1998, and is a referee for several international journals.

Expertise: Location and coordination issues in global supply chains, Multi-plant coordination, Logistics alliances, Simulation of Manufacturing Systems, Shop floor coordination and lead-time management.