President

Dr. Ying-Chyi Chou
Distinguished Professor,
Department of Business Administration, Tunghai University, Taiwan.

Dr. Ying-Chyi Chou served as a distinguished professor in Department of Business Administration, Tunghai University, Taiwan. She received a Ph.D. in Business and Management from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. She was a visiting scholar at Paris Descartes University (PDU), Broca hospital, France, 2022, at Rhode Island University, 2014 and at Florida State University, 2008. In 2023, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to conduct research at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Her publications have appeared in International Journal of Business & Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Science Education International, Management and Applied Economics, Energy Efficiency, Quality & Quantity, among others. She has received the International Collaboration Research Award in Service Science presented by the Service Science Society of Taiwan and The Sayling Wen Cultural & Educational Foundation in 2014, and the Lu Feng Zhang Memorial Award for contribution in management practice by the Chinese Management Association in 2015. Dr. Chou served as the Vice Dean for the Office of Academic Affairs and the Chair of Department of Business Administration at Tunghai University.
Dr. Chou’s research focuses on Human Resource Management, Decision Science, Healing/Friendly Environment, and Performance Management, Service Management. She was received external funding from nonprofit organization, governments, and industries, including Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Ministry of Education, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. Currently, Dr. Chou is a director of Center for Healing Environment Administration and Research (HEAR), Tunghai University. She is a reviewer for several professional journals.

Vice President

Dr. Varadraj Gurupur
Full professor,
School of Health Management and Informatics,
University of Central Florida (UCF), USA

Varadraj Gurupur, PhD is currently working as a tenured Full Professor with the School of Health Management and Informatics and has a joint appointment with the Department of Computer Science, and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering with the University of Central Florida (UCF). He is also the founding member and Director of the Center for Decision Support Systems and Informatics at UCF. Dr. Gurupur received his Doctoral degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2010. Dr. Gurupur is a recipient of two international awards, two national awards, and several regional and institutional awards. This includes the prestigious AHIMA Research Award in the year 2017, and the AHIMA Triumph Award for Innovation in 2021. Additionally, he is also the recipient of the prestigious Joseph M. Biedenbach Outstanding Engineering Educator Award from IEEE Region 3 and the recipient of FHIMA Literary Award in 2016. His core research is focused on software engineering decision support systems for healthcare and education. Dr. Gurupur is also someone who has worked in the healthcare industry for several years. Based on this work experience and academic training he is involved in discovering innovative solutions to difficult problems associated with Electronic Health Records. Dr. Gurupur has more than 100 publications which include: edited books, book chapters, journal articles, conference papers, abstracts, and published reviews. Additionally, he has been involved in many research projects funded by the United States Federal government agencies such as National Science Foundation, and National Institutes of Health.

Vice President

Dr. Mey Goh
Full professor,
Transdisciplinary Design Engineering at the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK

Dr Mey Goh is a Professor of Transdisciplinary Design Engineering at the Wolfson School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK. She earned a BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from Universiti Tenaga Nasional, Malaysia, in 2001 and completed her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol, UK, in 2005. Dr Goh serves as Associate Director of the Intelligent Automation Centre, a multidisciplinary research centre advancing robotics and digital automation. She is also Centre Lead for the Made Smarter Innovation Centre on People-Led Digitalisation – a collaborative initiative between universities and industry aimed at improving the adoption of digital technologies.
Dr Goh’s research aligns closely with the human-centricity pillar of Industry 5.0, advancing knowledge, processes, and methods for designing effective, human-centred industrial systems and technologies. A recognised scholar in transdisciplinary design engineering, her work tackles critical challenges at the intersection of people, technology, and organisational transformation. She has made pioneering contributions to user-centred digital twins, human–robot interaction, and explainable AI (XAI) designed with user needs at its core.
Dr Goh is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Integrated Design and Process Science since 2023. She holds leadership positions within professional bodies, serving on the Committee of the Consortium of UK University Manufacturing and Engineering (COMEH) and the Board of the International Society of Transdisciplinary Engineering (ISTE), and currently acting as Vice President of the Society of Design and Process Science (SDPS).

Executive Director

Dr. Ching-Hua Lu
Assistant Professor , Department of Business Administration at National Taichung University of Science and Technology (NTUST), Taiwan

Dr. Ching-Hua Lu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Business Administration at National Taichung University of Science and Technology (NTUST), where he also serves as the College Secretary. He earned his Ph.D. in Management Science from National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, and specializes in decision sciences, performance evaluation, green enterprise evaluation models, and dementia care models. Dr. Lu teaches courses including Calculus, Management Mathematics, Business Simulation and Decision Analysis, and Economics. His professional background includes postdoctoral research appointments at Shih Chien University and Tunghai University, as well as roles in research and teaching across academia and healthcare settings. He has presented at international conferences, delivered keynote talks abroad, and contributed to interdisciplinary research and academic service activities. Dr. Lu’s research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and reflects his commitment to both rigorous scholarship and real-world applications in management and care systems.

Secretary & Treasurer

Dr. Fan Xiong

KLA, Milpitas, CA

Deputy Executive Director

Dr. Hsin-Chueh Chen
Doctoral-level Researcher in the Department of Business Administration at Tunghai University, Taiwan

Dr. Hsin-Chueh (Lily) Chen is a Doctoral-level Researcher in the Department of Business Administration at Tunghai University, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from the Graduate Institute of Science Education, National Taiwan Normal University, and completed her M.S. in Zoology and B.S. in Life Sciences at National Taiwan University.
Her research focuses on human-centered learning and decision-making contexts, with particular emphasis on Inquiry-Based Learning, Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), and the integration of Artificial Intelligence in science education and care-related settings. She served as a Visiting Researcher at the University of Twente (the Netherlands), where her work examined how AI can support learners’ and users’ understanding, collaboration, and decision-making in complex, real-world contexts.
In 2025, her work was awarded Second Prize at the SDPS Doctoral Symposium, recognizing its contribution to human-centered and transdisciplinary research. She has also received multiple competitive national and international honors and research mobility grants, including the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) Dragon Gate Program grant (2023), overseas research and mobility scholarships supported by Taiwan’s Ministry of Education (MOE) and NSTC, along with grants for international academic conference participation.
Beyond her research, Dr. Chen contributes to international academic exchange and public engagement. She served as an event host for Research Day events in the Netherlands and Luxembourg, supporting the coordination of interdisciplinary academic activities. She is also the host of a dementia care–focused podcast, dedicated to translating research insights into accessible knowledge for caregivers and the wider public. In addition, she has contributed to the development and technology transfer of a lifelong service-learning mapping system, reflecting experience in bridging research and applied educational practice.

Assistant Treasurer

Cara Li

Amador Valley High School, Pleasanton, CA

Senior Advisor

Stan Gatchel

Mr. Garchel has served as the Senior Advisor for SDPS for over 10 years. He previously served as Secretary and Treasurer of the Society.

Mr. Gatchel earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Texas Arlington in 1969. It proved a difficult course of study, with only 10% of the original freshmen class graduating.

Following graduation, he worked for Bell Helicopter Textron in Fort Worth for over five years as a dynamicist specializing in the system stability of tiltrotor aircraft designs, including complex computer analysis, software development, and wind tunnel testing.

He subsequently attended The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in State College, Pennsylvania, where he earned a Master of Science degree in Engineering Mechanics from the Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, an honors program within Penn State's Department of Engineering.

He then went to work for Structural Dynamics Research Corporation, an engineering consulting firm in Cincinnati, Ohio.  For two years, he performed structural analysis on a wide array of diverse machine designs from heavy construction machinery to high speed rotary compressor units.

The next fifteen years were spent at University Computing Company (UCC) in Dallas, Texas. UCC offered a diverse group of engineering analysis software on their worldwide computer timesharing service, including finite element software, circuit design, piping systems design, CAD/CAM, simulation software, computer graphics, and much more. Mr. Gatchel was part of a support group helping customers use these offerings. He later became the manager of this group and went on to become Marketing Manager for the company. During this time he traveled the world meeting with customers to help with all kinds of engineering problems. He also developed the company's software quality assurance (SQA) program to allow UCC's software in the nuclear power industry.

Following UCC, he worked for a small consulting company in Dallas. For two years, he consulted with one of the largest electric utilities in Texas to develop a software quality assurance program, which passed a stringent government audit.

The next four years he worked as a consultant for a small company that Professor Murat Tanik and he formed,  named Process Sciences Laboratory (PSL). As a consultant, Mr. Gatchel worked for a start-up telecom company where he assisted in process improvement, procedure development, and the implementation of a myriad of software applications and databases needed to provision new telecom customers.

Mr. Gatchel next formed a new telecom marketing company called 14UCC, Inc. As agents for various provider firms, 14UCC marketed their specialized telecom services directly to new customers. This company provided the extra time for Mr. Gatchel to devote a great deal of effort to SDPS, which was very useful, following the significant changes in leadership in 2008. This company was dissolved in 2024, following Mr. Gatchel's retirement.

Of note, Mr Gatchel joined a special transdisciplinary PhD program at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas in 2006. He spent two years completing all required coursework, but quit in 2008 without completing his dissertation, due to the demands of SDPS.

In 2002, he had loosely started writing a special paper on his own. While gathering thoughts through the years, he continued to work as time permitted. In 2012, the writing began in earnest until it was at last completed in late 2024---23 years of working in what spare time he had available. This unpublished document may be considered his final work.

Director of IT

Mohan Qiao

Mohan Qiao serves as the Director of IT. He received a B.Sc. with a joint major in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University. Following his undergraduate studies, he entered the Master’s program in Quality Systems Engineering at Concordia University, from which he accelerated directly into the Ph.D. program in Information & Systems Engineering, where he is currently a doctoral student. Mr. Qiao began his research career focusing on innovative approaches to Cyber-Physical Security in IoT infrastructures, where he compiled comprehensive datasets to support machine learning applications. He subsequently collaborated on advanced research involving UAVs and remote sensing technologies for environmental monitoring and forest fire detection. Mr. Qiao also served as a co-lead researcher for the PISA Canada English research group for the OECD PISA 2025 Creative Thinking Assessment Project, where he designed the PRISM cross-platform assessment system to support standardized evaluation. Currently, his work integrates topology and psychology into the fields of spatial statistics and data science. Additionally, he is engaged in the development of ontological knowledge abstraction for aviation systems.

SES President

(To be announced)

SES Vice President

Dr. David E. Robbins

Samford University

SES President and SDPS Vice President for South America

Dr. Fuad Sobrinho

Stan Gatchel