NEW MDC - Judges - TigerGraph

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We’ve assembled a distinguished panel of experts from across different domains to judge your submission. The breadth and depth of knowledge of the judging team is truly impressive and we are thankful for their participation.

TIGERGRAPH EMPLOYEE JUDGES

James Pang Yan, PhD

Co-Director, Master of Science in Business Analytics at National University of Singapore

Dr. James Pang is currently an Associate Professor at the NUS Business School at National University of Singapore. He is also the Co-Director of NUS Business Analytics Center and oversee the centre operations and industry collaboration. His research focuses on Business Analytics, BlockChain, modelling methodology and algorithm development. He has rich multi-industry experience in Manufacturing, Supply Chain/Logistics, Finance, Healthcare, and Retail sectors, and has been working in analytics and optimization areas in the last 15 years. Prior to the current role, he was the Client Technical Advisor (Chief Architect) in Analytics and Optimization at IBM, and led the IBM technical solution design in ASEAN Public Sector. Previously, he was also a Lead Architect and Senior Manager at IBM R&D Labs in charge of analytics and optimization product development. Before joining IBM, Dr. Pang was a Research Scientist at Motorola Labs and focused on development and implementation of Operations Research models and methods to solve problems in supply chains and manufacturing systems. Dr. Pang is the recipient of a number of prestigious industry and academic awards, including IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award (OTAA), IBM Invention Plateau Award, Motorola Annual Performance Award, Finalist of the Andrew Fraser Prize 2007 (best PhD Thesis) of IMechE (Institute of Mechanical Engineers), etc. Dr. Pang is also sitting on several industry advisory board, including Singapore Computer Society (Business Analytics Chapter), China 12th five-year development advisory board (IT chapter), China Cloud System Pioneer Strategic Alliance, Singapore Tourism Board (STB) Data Advisory Panel, Luxemburg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), IBM BAO (business analytics and optimization) architecture board, IBM SDE (software defined environment) architecture board, IBM AP Invention Disclosure Review Board, Singapore BlockChain Foundation, etc.

Dr. Pang filed and published a number of patents and papers in analytics, optimization, supply chain management, healthcare analytics and cloud computing areas. Dr. Pang holds a Ph.D. from National University of Singapore (NUS) jointly with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Master and Bachelor from Zhejiang University (ZJU), China.

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