Zia Zaman is a technology executive, board director, and writer. His work has appeared in CHANCE (American Statistical Association), Rotman Management Magazine, the Harvard Business Review, the Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Hackwriters, and early-2000s litzines including Seeker, Wilmington Blues, Cherry Bleeds, Rivative, and Undershorts. He is the author of four books: Losing Oneself in Remote Asia (Tangerine Press, 2003), Falling Off the Chair at Logan Airport (2014), Locked Down and Other Stories (2021), and Regression (Books One–Three).

BOOKS

1.       Losing Oneself in Remote Asia — travel stories (Asia). Tangerine Press, 2003, 164 pp. ISBN 0973288302. Also on Ingram. Received a critical review: Leonard Ng, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, Vol. 3 No. 2, Jan 2004.

2.       Falling Off the Chair at Logan Airport — memoir of a father and his son Alex (Sturge-Weber Syndrome). Self-published via IngramSpark, 2014; 2nd printing 2021. ISBN 978-981-14-9966-1.

3.       Locked Down and Other Stories — ten pandemic stories in ten forms. Self-published, 2021. ISBN (via Ingram). singaporelockeddownbook.com

4.       Regression — Books One–Three, speculative fiction. Self-published via IngramSpark, ISBNs.

PEER-REVIEWED & PRACTITIONER ARTICLES

5.       Zaman, Z. (2001). "Coach Markov Pulls Goalie Poisson." CHANCE (American Statistical Association), 14(2), 31–35. Sole author. (Archived at iastate.edu hilites142.html.)

6.       Zaman, Z., & Tan, H. (2020). "A Modification to Pull the Goalie that Takes the State of Play into Account: Coach Markov Returns." CHANCE. DOI: 10.1080/09332480.2020.1726113. (Co-author Hong Ming Tan, Institute of Operations Research and Analytics, NUS.)

7.       Atkins, A., Seitchik, M., & Zaman, Z. (2016). "So You Think You Can Innovate?" Rotman Management Magazine, Sep 2016; Harvard Business Review reprint ROT310. Co-author; sidebar box authored by Zia.

8.       Gavetti, G., Zaman, Z., Posen, H., & Siderius, J. (2026). "AI Won't Kill the Strategy Star." Harvard Business Review — in editorial review. Full co-author, second only to Giovanni Gavetti.

9.       Zaman, Z. (2026). Abundance in an Era of Penury — chapter, Verve Research (obstructions, transitions, and variable-geometry cooperation).

10.   Zaman, Z. (forthcoming). Chapter in Professor Virginia Cha's book, NUS Press.

RESEARCH REPORTS (Gartner, lead author)

11.   "Growth Through M&A Is Not a Panacea." Gartner, c. 2004–2005. (Client-paywalled; exact date not publicly indexed.)

12.   "Get Set for M&A Activity as Asian IT Players' Brand-Buying Changes Global Markets." Gartner, c. 2004–2005. (Same caveat.)

ACADEMIC THESES (MIT)

13.   S.B. thesis, Electrical Engineering, MIT, 1991 — "Prescriptive Applications of the Queue Inference Engine."

14.   S.M. thesis, Operations Research, MIT, 1993 — "More Prescriptive Applications of the Queue Inference Engine."

LITERARY PERIODICALS & LITZINES

Live venues:

●        QLRS (Quarterly Literary Review Singapore) — "Vanity in Vietnam," Vol. 1 No. 3, Apr 2002. Live at qlrs.com. (The venue where Leonard Ng's review of Losing Oneself in Remote Asia also ran.)

●        Hackwriters (hackwriters.com) — seven pieces live (27th year of publication): Vanity in Vietnam (Vietnam.htm), Inkaland / Peru (Inkaland.htm), City of Mysore (Mysore.htm), Visiting Grandma / Malaysia (Zia5.htm), Elvis the Pilot / Danny Desai (DannyDesai.htm), War Alchemy Animism / Myanmar (Burma.htm), Cape Cod Fantasies (CapeCod.htm).

●        CHANCE (American Statistical Association) — see peer-reviewed list; institutional credit in statistics.

Defunct venues (Wayback-documented, legitimate early-2000s online lit magazines):

●        Seeker (seekermagazine.com) — "Geometry of Angkor."

●        Wilmington Blues (wilmingtonblues.com) — "Geometry of Angkor."

●        Cherry Bleeds (cherrybleeds.com/words/guest/zia.html) — "Hell Hole" (2000–2010, Literary Underground scene).

●        Undershorts (undershorts.net) — "Take the Stairs" (Wayback-verified); "Voices" placed 2nd, Undershorts Print Edition Spring 2002 Fiction Contest.

●        Rivative (rivative.net) — "Danny Desai" (Wayback-verified 2002–2003).

●        Novelists Abroad — "Danny Desai" (featured writer page, Wayback-verified).

Own platform (archival): unusualday.com (2001–2003, Wayback) — early fiction, travel writing, reviews, science writing, including "Bhutan Is" and early drafts of "Cape Cod Fantasies."

REVIEWS OF ZIA'S WORK

●        Leonard Ng, review of Losing Oneself in Remote Asia, QLRS Vol. 3 No. 2, Jan 2004. (The only surviving public critical response; QLRS is where Singapore literary reviewing happens.)

Contact

Zia Zaman

Singapore

Email:  zia.zaman@gmail.com
WhatsApp:  +65 98207072
X: @zzaman
LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/zia-zaman-05b8463b2