SUTD SENIOR MANAGEMENT PROFILES PROFESSOR RAKESH NAGI Head of Pillar, Engineering Systems and Design Director, Aviation Studies Institute Professor Rakesh Nagi is the Head of the Engineering Systems and Design Pillar and the Director of the Aviation Studies Institute (ASI) at SUTD, having joined in August 2023. Prof Nagi is also Donald Biggar Willett Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). At UIUC, he previously served as the Department Head of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering from 2013 to 2019 and as the Interim Director of the Illinois Applied Research Institute from 2016 to 2018. He holds affiliate faculty positions in Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Computational Science and Engineering, and Discovery Partners Initiative at UIUC. Before joining UIUC, he was Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) from 2006 to 2012. He earned his PhD and MSc degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1991 and 1989, respectively, and his BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Roorkee (now Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee), India, in 1987. During his studies, he also worked at the Institute for Systems Research and INRIA, France. Prof Nagi has received numerous accolades, including the IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2022), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Koopman Award from the Military Application Society (2021, 2018), and the Defense Agencies Research Program Agency’s (DARPA) Graph Challenge Champion (2020). He has been recognised with the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) Fellow Award (2010), and his papers have been published in top journals such as IIE Transactions, International Journal of Production Research, and Management Science. His research focuses on applied/military operations research, production and manufacturing systems, with interests in Big Graphs, high-level information fusion, facility design, production management, and agile manufacturing. ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DARIO POLETTI Head of Cluster, Science, Mathematics and Technology Associate Professor Dario Poletti is the Head for the Science, Mathematics and Technology (SMT) cluster at SUTD. Prior to this, Assoc Prof Poletti was the Associate Head leading SMT Graduate programmes and research. Being one of the early faculty members who joined SUTD’s Freshmore curriculum team in July 2012, Assoc Prof Poletti has actively contributed to SUTD’s pedagogy as well as research. In 2015, he was named in Asia Pacific MIT Technology Review’s Innovators under 35 list, and in 2017 the Institute of Physics (IOP) Outstanding Referee Award for New Journal of Physics. He obtained his joint PhD in Physics from NUS and the Australian National University, for which he received the Medal of Material Research Society of Singapore for the best PhD thesis in NUS Physics Department in 2010. Before that he earned a Master of Engineering (Nuclear Engineering) from Politecnico di Milano and Master of Engineer (Applied Physics) from Ecole Centrale Paris. His research areas focus on Complex Quantum Systems, including the topics of Quantum Transport, Quantum Thermodynamics, Quantum Chaos, Quantum Computing. He also develops advanced classical numerical methods to study quantum systems and machine learning applications. He has more than 100 publications appearing in journals, including Nature, Nature Quantum Information, Physical Review Letters and Review of Modern Physics. p. 22 SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN
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