Wai-Peng received her Ph.D degree from the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, National University of Singapore in 2009. She is currently an Associate Professor at the School of Information Technology (SoIT), Monash University,  Malaysia.  She was the recipient of the highly prestigious   British Academy Newton Advanced Fellowship 2017.  She has led and completed various research projects funded by the Malaysia’s Ministry of Higher Education, Motorola Technology Pte Ltd and Japan Sumitomo Foundation. She also serves on the editorial boards of several international journals. 

Research-in-progress includes feature selections for decision making in logistics supply chain using DEA and machine learning regression; the development of a diffusion innovation model for blockchain technology in agriculture supply chain. I am also keen on using machine learning and geospatial analytics in health epidemiology to predict occurrences of non-communicable diseases.