Andrew Y C Nee is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He received his PhD and DEng from Manchester and UMIST respectively. He was elected a Fellow of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP) in 1990 and served as its president in 2012. He is the first ethic Chinese to be elected President since CIRP’s formation in 1951. He is an elected Fellow of the US Society of Manufacturing Engineers (SME) and its Gold Medal recipient in 2014. He is Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Manufacturing. Major research awards include: IEEE Kayamori Award (1999), IJPR Norman Dudley Award (2003) , IMechE Joseph Whitworth Prize (2010). He has graduated 48 PhD and 46 MEng, with GS citation of 11,130 and H-Index 57.