JOEL GOH
Professor, Department of Analytics and Operations, NUS Business School
Director, J.Y. Pillay Comparative Asia Research Centre
Deputy Director, NUS Global Asia Institute
PhD Program Director, NUS Institute of Operations Research and Analytics

BRIEF BIO
My primary research agenda centers around three applied research domains: healthcare analytics, supply chain analytics, and the operations of service platforms. My work in healthcare analytics falls into four separate themes: (a) preventing, detecting, and treating health conditions, (b) incentives in healthcare, (c) workplace stressors and health, and (d) hospital operations. In the domain of supply chain analytics, I’m primarily interested in understanding how new business models, enabled by digital technology, can be harnessed to unlock hidden efficiencies in supply chains. Finally, I am interested in understanding how service platforms can operate more effectively, which can be achieved through changes in operating policies or different forms of information provision. I also have secondary research interests in methodologies for optimal decision-making and co-created Robust Optimization Made Easy (ROME), a software package for modeling robust optimization problems.
I currently serve as an Associate Editor at Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Service Science, and Health Care Management Science, as well as a Senior Editor at Production and Operations Management.
Previous academic appointments:
2020-2025: Dean’s Chair Associate Professor, NUS Business School
2017-2020: President’s Assistant Professor, NUS Business School
2017-2022: Visiting Scholar, Harvard Business School
2014-2017: Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
SELECTED HONORS
| 2023 | Best MBA Teaching (core), NUS Business School |
| 2023 | Wickham Skinner Teaching Innovation Award, Production and Operations Management Society |
| 2021 | NUS Annual Teaching Excellence Award, National University of Singapore |
| 2021 | Best MBA Teaching (core), NUS Business School |
| 2021 | Teaching Excellence Award, NUS Business School |
| 2020 | MBA Professors to look out for, BusinessBecause |
| 2020 | Early Career Research Excellence Award, NUS Business School |
| 2020 | Teaching Excellence Award, NUS Business School |
| 2020 | 40 Under 40 Best MBA Professors, Poets & Quants |
| 2019 | Finalist, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Society |
| 2019 | 3rd Place, JFIG Paper Competition, INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group |
| 2018 | Teaching Excellence Award, NUS Business School |
| 2014 | Finalist, George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition, INFORMS |
| 2014 | Winner, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Society |
| 2012 | Finalist, Best Student Paper Competition, POMS College of Supply Chain Management |
| 2012 | Finalist, Pierskalla Best Paper Award, INFORMS Health Applications Society |
| 2001 | Gold Medal, XXXII International Physics Olympiad |