Director of Center

吳侃 / Kan Wu

Professor of Department of Industrial and Business Management

Director of Business Analytics Research Center

Tel: +886-3-2118800 #5412
Email: kan@gap.cgu.edu.tw

Education

PhD (Industrial & Sys Eng) Georgia Institute of Technology
MSc (IEOR) University of California at Berkeley
MEng (Nuclear Eng) University of California at Berkeley
BEng (Nuclear Eng) National Tsinghua University

Research Interests

Smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0
Manufacturing system performance
Queueing theory
Productivity enhancement
Planning, scheduling and dispatching
Supply chain management

Experience

TEFEN USA, Industrial Engineering and System Analysis
Industrial Engineering Consultant (6/1996 – 6/1998)

Cycle time reduction and WIP management for semiconductor fabs
Capacity planning and productivity improvement
New fab ramp-up schedule control and layout design

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC)

Senior Engineer (6/1998 – 8/2001)
Central Planning & Production Control Departments

Demand analysis and allocation plan
Tape out plan management
Production control and MPS plan

Manufacturing Information Technology Division (MITD)

Consultant Team of Operational Excellence (9/2001 – 7/2003)

Supply chain management
Fab scheduling and dispatching system design
Simulation model development
Internal training for production control and scheduling

Inotera Memories

Manager in Industrial Engineering Department (7/2003 – 8/2005)

New Fab layout design and ramp-up schedule control
Capacity planning and productivity improvement
Simulation model development
Budget control for Fab expansion

Sensor Analytics, Inc.
CTO and Founding Team Member (1/2010 – 12/2010)

Cycle time and yields optimization for inspection tools
Senior Researcher under NSF Grant 0956911

Nanyang Technological University
Assistant Professor at School of Mechanical &Aerospace Engineering (12/2010 – 11/2020)

Division of Systems & Engineering Management

Service

Reviewer:
IIE Transactions, EJOR, POM, IJPR, DEDS, EJIE, ANOR, ADVEI, IEEE TASE, and IEEE TSM

Editorship:
Associate editor of APJOR
Associate editor of IEEE CASE 2014

Others:
Area Expert in the Steering Committee of the Industry 4.0 in the Future of Manufacturing, Singapore
IEEE Technical Committee of Semiconductor Manufacturing Automation
IEEE Technical Committee of Sustainable Production and Service Automation
Organizer of a Special Session in IEEE CASE 2014
Chair of the 11th Modeling and Analysis of Semiconductor
Manufacturing Conference, 2015, Huntington Beach, CA, USA
Organizer of a Special Session in IEEE ICIT 2016
Co-organizer of a Special Session in IEEE CASE 2017

Visiting Consultant of Health Sciences Authority, Singapore (6/2018 - )

Honors and Awards

Silver Medal of Taiwan Continuous Improvement Award (with UMC), 2018
Best Paper Award of International Symposium on Semiconductor Manufacturing Intelligence, 2016
Excellent Paper Award of International Conference on Computers Industrial Engineering (CIE 46), 2016
The 3rd Place of IIE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 2010
Dissertation: New results in factory physics – insights from the underlying structures of manufacturing systems
National Scholarship for Overseas Study, Taiwan, 2005
TSMC MITD Excellent Employee Award, 2002
TSMC e-Operations Symposium’s Best Paper Award, 2002
TSMC MITD Patent Star, 2002

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