Keynote Speakers

Registration Link: https://www.xcdsystem.com/IEOM/attendee/index.cfm?ID=hQrVh5k

March 7 (Tuesday) – Room 1 (Onsite)

10:00 am, Tuesday, March 7 – Welcome Address

Br. Bernard S. Oca FSC
President
De La Salle University

10:20 am, Tuesday, March 7 – Keynote I:

Professor Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Ph.D.

Professor of Operations Management
Head of the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement
College of Business, Law and Social Sciences
Derby Management School
University of Derby
Derby, United Kingdom (UK)

Prof. Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes is a Professor of Operations Management and Head of the Centre for Supply Chain Improvement at the College of Business, Law and Social Sciences, University of Derby, UK. He is actively involved in industrial projects where he combines his knowledge, expertise and industrial experience in operations management to help organisations achieve excellence in their internal functions and supply chains. He has also led and managed international research projects funded by the British Academy, British Council and Mexico’s National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). As a leading academic, he has published extensively in leading scientific journals, including the Int. Journal of Production Research, Int. Journal of Production Economics, Journal of Cleaner Production, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, TQM & Business Excellence, Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, etc., and a number of international conferences. Professor Garza-Reyes has also published four books in the areas of operations management and innovation, manufacturing performance measurement and quality management systems. He is Co-founder and current Editor of the Int. Journal of Supply Chain and Operations Resilience (Inderscience) and will lead the launch of the official IEOM’s journal Int. Journal of Industrial Engineering and Operations Management as its Editor-in-Chief. Professor Garza-Reyes has also led and guest edited special issues for Production Planning & Control, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Int. Journal of Lean Six Sigma, Int. Journal of Lean Enterprise Research, Int. Journal of Engineering Management and Economics, and Int. Journal of Engineering and Technology Innovation. Areas of expertise and interest for Professor Garza-Reyes include general aspects of operations and manufacturing management, business excellence, quality improvement, and performance measurement. He is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a certified Six Sigma-Green Belt, and has over eight years of industrial experience working as Production Manager, Production Engineer and Operations Manager for several international and local companies in both the UK and Mexico. He is also a fellow member of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and a member of the Institution of Engineering Technology (MIET).

11:00 am, Tuesday, March 7 – Keynote Speaker II:

Mynard Bryan R. Mojica
Deputy Director
Policy Development Group
Financial Inclusion Office
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Calabarzon, Philippines

11:40 am, Tuesday, March 7 – Keynote Speaker III:

Jorey Guzman
Regional Manager, Factory Automation South East Asia
Siemens
Singapore

12:20 pm, Tuesday, March 7 – Keynote Speaker IV:

Prof. Ts. Dr. Massila Kamalrudin
Vice Chancellor
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)
Hang Tuah Jaya, Durian Tunggal
Malacca, Malaysia

Born in Malacca, Prof. Ts. Dr. Massila Kamalrudin is a Doctor of Philosophy graduate from the University of Auckland, New Zealand in the field of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Her area of expertise is Software Engineering specifically in Software Requirements Engineering. She has also completed her postdoctoral in the field of Software Engineering – Requirements Engineering from Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia. She started her career as a tutor from 2004 at Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM). At a young age, Prof. Ts. Dr. Massila Kamalrudin was awarded the title of Professor at UTeM in August 2020 and was appointed as the Vice Chancellor of UTeM in March 2022. Prof. Ts. Dr. Massila received the Malaysian Young Women Scientist Award 2020 from MINDS Malaysia and in 2022 she received the Women Icon Award in the Innovative Academic Award category from Times Women and The World Women Council.

March 8 (Wednesday) – Room 1 (Onsite)

10:00 am, Wednesday, March 8 – Conference Chair Remarks

10:20 am, Wednesday, March 8 – Keynote V:

Professor Charles Mbohwa, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Past Pro-Vice Chancellor Strategic Partnerships and Industrialisation
University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Professor Charles Mbohwa is a Pro-Vice Chancellor Strategic Partnerships and Industrialisation at University of Zimbabwe and an affiliated Professor in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment. He is an established researcher and professor in the field of sustainability engineering and energy. He was the Chairman and Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zimbabwe from 1994 to 1997 and was Vice-Dean of Postgraduate Studies Research and Innovation in the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment at the University of Johannesburg from 2014 to 2017. He has published more than 350 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, 10 book chapters and three books. He has a Scopus h-index of 11 and Google Scholar h-index of 14. Upon graduating with his BSc Honours in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Zimbabwe in 1986, he was employed as a mechanical engineer by the National Railways of Zimbabwe. He holds a Masters in Operations Management and Manufacturing Systems from University of Nottingham and completed his doctoral studies at Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology in Japan. He was a Fulbright Scholar visiting the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, a Japan Foundation Fellow, is a Fellow of the Zimbabwean Institution of Engineers and is a registered mechanical engineer with the Engineering Council of Zimbabwe. He has been a collaborator in projects of the United Nations Environment Programme. He has also visited many countries on research and training engagements including the United Kingdom, Japan, German, France, the USA, Brazil, Sweden, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mauritius, Austria, the Netherlands, Uganda, Namibia and Australia. He has had several awards including British Council Scholarship, Japanese Foundation Fellowship, Kubota Foundation Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship.

11:00 am, Wednesday, March 8 – Keynote Speaker VI:

Mr. Jeremy Lim
Business Process Transformation Vice-President
Robotic Process Automation (RPA) and Workflow Program Lead
Robinsons Bank Corporation
Manila, Philippines

11:40 am, Wednesday, March 8 – Keynote Speaker VII:

Dr. Marcelo Ang
Professor of Control & Mechatronics
National University of Singapore
Singapore

12:20 pm, Wednesday, March 8 – Keynote Speaker VIII:

Dr. Fitra Lestari
Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in Faculty of Science and Technology
Professor in Industrial Engineering Department
Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim Riau
Riau, Indonesia

IEOM Student Chapter UIN SUSKA Riau Presentation

March 9 (Thursday) – Room 1 (Onsite)

10:00 am, Thursday, March 9 – Conference Chair Remarks

10:20 am, Thursday, March 9 – Keynote Speaker IX:

Joyce Ramos
Senior Vice President
Head of Country and Business Development
LF Logistics Philippines
Manila, Philippines

11:00 am, Thursday, March 9 – Keynote Speaker X:

Ir. Rosnani Ginting, MT, Ph.D, IPU, ASEAN Eng.
Head of Graduate Program of Industrial Engineering
Department of Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Engineering
Universitas Sumatera Utara
Indonesia

Ir. Rosnani Ginting is a professor and Head of Graduate Program of Industrial Engineering, Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Sumatera Utara, Indonesia. She is a Ph. D from Universiti Sains Malaysia. The areas of her specialization are Production System, Product Design and Planning, Machine Scheduling, Manufacturing System Plan, Decision Support System and Enterprise Resource Planning. She is active as Her published books Production Systems, Machine Scheduling, Product Planning, Industrial Engineering Plan, Decision Support System, Questionnaire, and QFD. She has published numerous international papers. Her papers with title “TRIZ or DFMA Combined with QFD as Product Design Methodology: A Review”, and also title “Integration of quality function deployment and value engineering: A case study of designing a Texon cutting tool” indexed on SCOPUS. Her book chapter has also published in Intechopen Publisher with title “Integrated Model of Product Design Methods“.

11:40 am, Thursday, March 9 – Keynote Speaker XI:

Dominic “Doc” Ligot
Founder, CEO and CTO
CirroLytix Research Services
anila, Philippines

Data analyst, researcher, software developer, entrepreneur and technologist. Advocate for data literacy, data ethics and social impact from data. His current work focuses on human rights, public health, food security, political risk and fighting disinformation and infodemics through the use of computational social science, social listening, remote sensing, artificial intelligence and data engineering.

Dominic founded CirroLytix, a social impact AI company and co-founded Data Ethics PH, an online community focused on social issues such as data privacy, data security, AI-driven discrimination, data liabilities, data ownership rights, and data poverty. Doc also cofounded the Analytics Association of the Philippines (AAP) and is a Board of Trustees member of the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism (PCIJ).

Doc’s teams are back-to-back global winners in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge for data-driven dengue surveillance and COVID-19 global pandemic response monitoring and also the Global Winner of the Technology Award in the EO Dashboard Hackathon for mobility and air quality.

12:20 pm, Thursday, March 9 – Keynote Speaker XII:

Dr. Mohammad T. Khasawneh, Ph.D.
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Chair, Systems Science and Industrial Engineering
Director, Watson Institute for Systems Excellence
Director, Healthcare Systems Engineering Center
Graduate Program Director, Executive Master of Science in Health Systems
Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science
State University of New York at Binghamton
Binghamton, New York 13902, U.S.A.

Dr. Mohammad Khasawneh is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Chair of Systems Science & Industrial Engineering at Binghamton University. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University, South Carolina, in August 2003, and his B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan, in 1998 and 2000, respectively. Dr. Khasawneh’s research is focused on healthcare systems engineering, operations management, and data science. Dr. Khasawneh currently serves as the Director for the Watson Institute for Systems Excellence (WISE), an institute for advanced studies that generates 3-4 million US$ in research funds annually. In addition, he currently serves as the founding director of the Healthcare Systems Engineering Center, an organized research center (ORC) at Binghamton University.

Since 2003, Dr. Khasawneh has been leading a wide spectrum of projects with U.S. hospital systems that focus on applied research in the area of healthcare systems engineering. More specifically, his research is focused on the novel application of systems engineering to transform healthcare systems into high-performance environments that produce better patient outcomes at lower costs. His work is applied in ways that lead to optimal healthcare, including more efficient use of hospital resources; better outpatient scheduling; streamlined patient flow; improved patient satisfaction; reduced hospital-acquired conditions (e.g., infections and patient falls) through predictive analytics; and improved clinical, operational and financial performance using advanced data science methods.

His health systems engineering center generates over one million dollars annually in sponsored research from various healthcare and hospital systems. Building on a successful research program and partnerships with health systems around the country and an academic concentration/minor, at the graduate/undergraduate levels, Dr. Khasawneh developed a 12-month Executive Master of Science with a Health Systems Concentration, which has been offered in Manhattan since 2013. He has also been instrumental in developing a new M.S. degree program in Healthcare Systems Engineering.

Over the years, Dr. Khasawneh presented his research at various national and international conferences, including China, India, Mexico, Jordan, Korea, Thailand, Japan, Turkey, Indonesia, and Canada. Dr. Khasawneh’s research activities thus far have led to 60+ refereed journal articles, 120+ conference articles, one patent, and three new invention disclosures. In addition, his sponsored research efforts thus far have resulted in over $15 million in external funding and over 39 million in software/equipment grants.

In 2006, Dr. Khasawneh received a U.S. Air Force Summer Faculty Fellowship to evaluate the use of multi-sensory cues to improve the landing of unmanned aerial vehicles. In 2009, he received another fellowship from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research to design ergonomic computer workstations for very large displays. Dr. Khasawneh received the State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2011, the University Award for Outstanding Graduate Director in 2015, the University Award for Excellence in International Education in 2016, and the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities in 2021. He is a member of the Alpha Pi Mu and Alpha Epsilon Lambda honor societies.

Dr. Khasawneh also holds the Diplomate status with the Society for Health Systems (SHS), a professional society within the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) that supports the industrial engineering profession and individuals involved with improving quality and productivity within healthcare. More recently, Dr. Khasawneh was also recently recognized as an IISE Fellow, the highest classification of the IISE membership. Dr. Khasawneh also holds an honorary visiting professor position with the Industrial Engineering Department at Hebei University of Technology in Tianjin, China, and Vellore Institute of Technology in Vellore, India.

8:00 – 8:40 am, Tuesday, March 7, 2023 – Virtual Room 6

Dr. M. Manzoor Hussain
Registrar
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University (JNTU)
Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Keynote Speakers

March 7 (Tuesday) – Room 1 (Onsite)

Br. Bernard S. Oca FSCPresidentDe La Salle University

Professor Jose Arturo Garza-Reyes, Ph.D.

Professor of Operations ManagementHead of the Centre for Supply Chain ImprovementCollege of Business, Law and Social SciencesDerby Management SchoolUniversity of DerbyDerby, United Kingdom (UK)

Mynard Bryan R. MojicaDeputy DirectorPolicy Development GroupFinancial Inclusion OfficeBangko Sentral ng PilipinasCalabarzon, Philippines

Jorey GuzmanRegional Manager, Factory Automation South East AsiaSiemensSingapore

Prof. Ts. Dr. Massila KamalrudinVice ChancellorUniversiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM)Hang Tuah Jaya, Durian TunggalMalacca, Malaysia

March 8 (Wednesday) – Room 1 (Onsite)

Professor Charles Mbohwa, Ph.D.Visiting Professor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa

Mr. Jeremy LimBusiness Process Transformation Vice-PresidentRobotic Process Automation (RPA) and Workflow Program LeadRobinsons Bank CorporationManila, Philippines

Dr. Marcelo AngProfessor of Control & MechatronicsNational University of SingaporeSingapore

Dr. Fitra LestariVice Dean for Academic Affairs in Faculty of Science and TechnologyProfessor in Industrial Engineering DepartmentUniversitas Islam Negeri Sultan Syarif Kasim RiauRiau, Indonesia