The Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

Starting in 2001, I worked my way from senior lecturer to full professor at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. I obtained my tenure in 2004 and am presently Chair Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) and Coordinator of IEM Research Group. I was Deputy Dean in Research and Postgraduate Graduate Affairs (2006-2007 and 2009-2012) of the Faculty of Engineering and served as the Campus Coordinator (2012-2015) of the School for Graduate Studies and Research. Before joining UWI, I held academic positions at The City University of Hong Kong, and worked in industry as operations executive, researcher, engineer, and consultant, in Hong Kong and the United Kingdom.

My research interests include industrial engineering, engineering management, performance measurement, quality, and innovation. I have more than 400 publications comprising journal articles, technical papers, reports, and teaching aids, and completed 24 research projects funded by UWI and other overseas universities and governments. I have supervised 11 MPhil/PhD and 155 MSc and am presently supervising seven (7) MPhil/PhD and 5 MSc at UWI. As of 23 June 2026, there were more than 7,470 citations, and the ‘h-index’ was 45 and the ‘i10-index’ was 79 (source: http://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=gPix5mkAAAAJ).

I have received several recognitions of my research and professional accomplishments, including the 2008 Vice-Chancellor's Award for Excellence (Teaching and Research) and the 2012 ‘Most Outstanding Researcher Award’ (Engineering) recognised by the University. I also received the IEOM Outstanding Service Award 2015, the 2018 R.V.S. Aleong Award for Sterling Service to APETT, the 2021 APETT’s Career of Excellence in Engineering Award, the 2022 Hummingbird Gold Medal Award, the 2022 SCIE Nationally Recognised Industrial Engineer Award, the 2023 Most Outstanding Faculty Researcher - UWI-Faculty of Engineering and the IEEEtt Section Award in 2025, as well as Top Scholar by ScholarGPS in 2024-2026.