PART OF IntechOpen Book Series: Industrial Engineering and Management
ISSN 3029-0511
Research Topic on Operational Excellence - always open for submissions, with an Annual Volume published each calendar year with a dedicated ISSN and ISBN.
Led by Topic Editor Dr. Stuart So and an international Editorial Board, all submissions are peer-reviewed and published immediately after acceptance.
University of Exeter, United Kingdom
Dr. Stuart So is a faculty member at the University of Exeter Business School (UEBS) and the Programme Director for both BSc Business Analytics and MSc Business Analytics. His teaching at the UEBS includes environmental analytics, operations analytics, capstone project and research methods. His research includes operations, supply chain, and information management focusing on sustainability for business operations and supply chains on the OM side, and smart cities modeling underpinned by blockchain, artificial intelligence (AI) and environmental analytics on the IM side. Stuart received his doctorate from Macquarie University and completed his fellowship at the City University of Hong Kong. Stuart has published more than 50 research articles in major peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He received two best paper awards and a research acknowledgment prize from the IEEE Conference, ANZAM Conference, and the University of Melbourne respectively. In addition, Stuart received his MSc in Psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. He studies pro-environmental attitudes and behaviours. This year Stuart will be focusing on sentiment analysis of public figures using NLP and related methods for studying pro-environmental behaviour in the UK. Professionally, Stuart provided consulting on supply chain decarbonization and lean management. He holds a Certified Carbon Auditor (CCA) qualification from Energy Institute (UK), and a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) from ISACA (USA). He is also an IRCA-certified ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems (EMS) Auditor and ISO22000 Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) Internal Auditor.