Data Science and Decision Making

Kwan Hui Lim

Fellow, SUTD Academy
Assistant Professor at SUTD

Kwan Hui LIM is an Assistant Professor at the Information Systems Technology and Design Pillar, Singapore University of Technology and Design, and leads the Social and Urban Analytics Lab. Previously, he was a Research Fellow at the School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Melbourne, Research Engineer at the Living Analytics Research Centre, Singapore Management University, Research Intern at IBM Research – Australia, and various visiting appointments. He received his PhD from the University of Melbourne, and MSc (Research) and BCompSci (1st Class Honours) from the University of Western Australia.

He is a recipient of the 2016 Google PhD Fellowship in Machine Learning. His research interests are in Data Mining, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Social Network Analysis, and Social Computing.

Lauri Saarinen

Assistant Professor
Aalto University School of Science

Lauri Saarinen serves as Assistant Professor of Operations Management, Aalto University School of Science, Finland. He is an expert in data analytics-based operations management, process improvement and planning of operations. He focuses in research and teaching on value creating analytical applications to companies’ operational data and has specialized on questions related to value of local production, international supply chains and process improvement. Lauri engages actively with industry with a goal to understand the edge of developing operations management and process improvement in practice. Before joining the academia, Lauri worked in supply chain management, inventory and production planning optimization. He has continued this work and is currently involved in developing tools to make analytics and optimization more accessible for companies to use in their decision making.