Dynamic Business Planning & Modelling for Commercial Excellence

Brandon is currently an Associate in NUS-ISS. He completed his study in Computer Science, major in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence. Under the NUS full time research scholarship sponsored by The Logistics Institute - Asia Pacific, he did research in Intelligent Transportation System for his master study.

He used to work in various IT projects in different domains, namely e-government projects for taxation and e-services security, global wide e-payment gateway for online gaming, logistics system for global supply chain management, work flow and business process for investment, and etc.

Brandon has been a full time and adjunct lecturer for local IHL as well as several oversea universities. He taught subjects for courses in various areas, including Enterprise Application Development, Data Structure and Algorithm, Geospatial Information System and Technology for Mobility, Enterprise Resource Planning, Business Processes, System/Business Analysis and Design, Business Intelligence, Knowledge Management Techniques, Database, Cyber Forensic, and others.

Christine is currently a Principal Lecturer and Consultant with the NUS-ISS.

She has worked in both public and private sectors (including tourism, fast moving consumer goods, transport & logistics sectors, education etc) where she led commercial excellence and analytics as well as market research and consumer insights initiatives across the Asia Pacific region. Over the years, she has worked on diverse and challenging analytical problems in commercial excellence, marketing and salesforce effectiveness, strategic planning and communications etc. Her interests lie in the applications of econometrics, marketing and sales analytics, predictive modelling and optimization techniques to derive actionable insights for commercial effectiveness.

She graduated from National University of Singapore (NUS) with a Bachelor of Science (minor in Computer Programming and Applications). She also completed her Master of Business Administration and Master of Science (Statistics) with NUS. 

Dr Ashish Kumar is Principal Research Scientist in the Health Systems Design Lab. Prior to joining the team in January 2021, he was Principal Consultant, Economics and Operations at Bell Labs Consulting (part of Nokia Group, where he worked for a total of 21 years). He has served as Engagement Lead for strategy consulting projects of national importance in Singapore and Malaysia. He has sold, delivered and led consulting projects in more than ten countries. As a subject matter expert, he has consulted on market entry business cases and market forecasting, economic impact of new technology, business benchmarking, and enhancement of operations models. Ashish has applied system dynamics, network analysis and input-output analysis in his work.  He has co-authored a book and several research publications. He has a B.E. (industrial engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee (India), master’s degree from the National Institute of Industrial Engineering, Mumbai and Ph.D. in management from IIT Delhi. He is interested in applying systems thinking in health.