About | SYLim

Education

2013-2018

University of Texas, Austin

Ph.D. in Information Systems, McCombs School of Business

Dissertation: Entrepreneurial Design of a Digital Health Business

Committee: Sirkka Jarvenpaa (chair), Hüseyin Tanriverdi, Diane Bailey, Douglas Hannah and Edward Anderson Jr.

2005-2007

Yale University

Master of Public Health (MPH)

Health Management Concentration in conjunction with

Yale School of Management

2002-2005

University of California at Berkeley

B.A. in Molecular and Cell Biology (Immunology) and Economics

Thesis: Model of cancer incidence associated with living near Superfund sites.

Advisor: Kenneth Chay

2009-2011

Johns Hopkins Singapore International Medical Center, Singapore

Assistant Director/Acting Director, Operations

Manager, Patient Services and Medical Records

2007-2009

Johns Hopkins Health System, Baltimore, MD, USA

Analyst, Clinical Decision Support/ Operations Integration

2006-2007

Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, USA

Administrative Resident

2006

National University Hospital, Singapore

Summer Associate

2006

World Health Organization, Venice, Italy

Summer Fellow, Office for Investment for Health & Development

MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1 grant: Exploring the Evolution of Entrepreneurs’ Ideas in Nascent Ventures: SGD$ 219,027, 2023
NUS Inauguration Grant, MOE’s Singapore Teaching and Academic Research Talent Scheme (START), SGD $200k, August 2019
MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1 grant: Understanding the Basis of Generativity: SGD $180k, 2020
MOE Startup grant: Entrepreneurial Design and Strategy of Digital Health Businesses: SGD$180k, 2018
IROM 2016 PhD Research Symposium, First Runner Up
Bonham Grant: The University of Texas at Austin: 2014- 2017
Dean’s Fellowship: The University of Texas at Austin: 2014- 2018
Supply Chain Management Supplemental Travel Grant: The University of Texas at Austin: 2014, 2015, 2016
Dean’s Scholarship: Yale University: 2005-2007

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