SMU’s first PhD programme was launched in 2006 and we had our first graduate in 2011. Till-date, we have over 200 academic research PhD graduates who have secured good placements at prestigious international academic institutions and industry organisations.
Our graduates have successfully found placements as faculty members and academic researchers (in universities and the industry) around the world. Several academic institutions our graduates have joined include Bocconi University, Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Chinese University of Hong Kong, Peking University and Tilburg University. Several industry organisations where our graduates have been appointed to include A*STAR (Singapore), DSO National Laboratories (Singapore), Google Switzerland GmbH and Twitter, Inc. (USA). Our graduates have indeed been successful in advancing their careers. You can view details of SMU’s PhD graduates’ placements.
Naqun HUANG
Assistant Professor
Nanjing Audit University, China
SMU PhD in Economics, 2017
Research Interests
Real estate economics, urban economics and health economics
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Jing LI (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Jun YU, SOE, SMU
Professor Sock Yong PHANG, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Amanda ROSS
- Economics, Finance & Legal Studies, University of Alabama
Pavneet Singh KOCHHAR
Data Scientist II
Microsoft, CanadaSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Empirical Software Engineering, Software Testing, Mining Software Repositories
Dissertation
Testing and Debugging: A Reality Check
Committee MembersAssociate Professor David LO (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Lingxiao JIANG, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Youngsoo KIM, SIS, SMU
Dr Nachiappan NAGAPPAN
- Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Peng LIU
Assistant Professor
School of Economics and Management
East China Normal UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2017
Research Interests
Mechanism design, microeconomic theory
Dissertation
On Random Assignment Problems
Committee MembersProfessor Shurojit CHATTERJI (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Takashi KUNIMOTO, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Jingyi XUE, SOE, SMU
Professor William THOMSON
- Department of Economics, University of Rochester
Peter TAY Kay Chai
Assistant Professor
Singapore Institute of TechnologySMU PhD in Psychology, 2017
Research Interests
Adaptive Cognition and Well-being
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Norman LI (Chair), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Hwajin YANG, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Grace PARK, SOSS, SMU
Dr Peter K JONASON, Senior Lecturer in Personality or Individual Differences
- Western Sydney University
Samantha SIM Su-Hsien
Assistant Professor
Management Department
Nova School of Business and Economics,
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, PortugalSMU PhD in Business, 2017
Research Interests
Compassion at Work, Mindfulness at Work, Organisational Justice
Dissertation
Understanding the Depleting and Replenishing Effects of Compassion on Resources and Stress Recovery
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jochen REB (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Michael BASHSHUR, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Ronald BLEDOW, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor William TOV
- SOSS, SMU
Sili ZHOU
Assistant Professor in Finance
Fanhai International School of Finance, Fudan UniversitySMU PhD in Business, 2017
Research Interests
Corporate Finance, Market Microstructure, Innovation, Policy Uncertainty
Dissertation
Essays on Corporate Finance
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jeremy GOH (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Sheng HUANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Aurobindo GHOSH, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jerry CAO
- Sun Yat-sen University
Sougata SEN
Assistant Professor
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa, IndiaSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Wearable computing, mobile sensing, activity recognition, pervasive computing, IoT
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Archan MISRA (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Rajesh BALAN, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Youngki LEE, SIS, SMU
Professor Andrew Thomas CAMPBELL
- Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA
Su Mon KYWE
Security Manager
National Healthcare Group, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Mobile Security
Dissertation
Techniques for Identifying Mobile Platform Vulnerabilities and Detecting Policy-violating Applications
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yingjiu LI (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Professor Robert Huijie DENG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Xuhua DING, SIS, SMU
Dr Tieyan LI
- Head of Mobile Security, Security & Privacy Lab
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd
Van Minh Tuan LE
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
New Mexico State University, New MexicoSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Topic models, Visualization, Dimensionality reduction, Embedding and generative models.
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Hady W. LAUW (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Wee Sun LEE
- School of Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
Wei XIE
Data Scientist
Gojek, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Social Media Mining, and Machine Learning
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Feida ZHU (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG, SIS, SMU
Professor Ee-Peng LIM, SIS, SMU
Professor Ke WANG
- School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Weng Sam MOK
SMU PhD in Economics, 2017
Research Interests
Labour Market, Match & Searching Frictions, News-driven Business Cycles, and DSGE models
Committee MembersProfessor Hian Teck HOON (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Ismail BAYDUR, SOE, SSMU
Assistant Professor Jianhuan XU, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor of Economics, Wai Mun CHIA
- Nanyang Technological University
Yang Ting ANG
Lead Research Manager (Public Sector & Applied)
Institute of Service Excellence (ISE), SMUSMU PhD in Business, 2017
Research Interests
Emotional Labour
Committee MembersProfessor Gary GREGURAS (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Abhijeet VADERA, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Kenneth TAI, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Michael DANIELS
- University of British Columbia
Yi Wen TAN
Associate Lecturer
Singapore Institute of ManagementSMU PhD in Psychology, 2017
Research Interests
Gender, diversity, identity integration, negotiations, judgement and decision making, creativity
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG (Chair), SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Guihyun Grace PARK, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Jennifer TONG, SOSS, SMU
Professor Don FERRIN
- LKCSB, SMU
Ying DING
Software Engineer
Google, California, USASMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Natural language processing, text mining, machine learning
Dissertation
Aspect Discovery from Product Reviews
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jing JIANG (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Hady W. LAUW, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU
Yulan HE
- Reader, Aston University
Yuan TIAN
Assistant Professor
School of Computing
Queen's University, CanadaSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2017
Research Interests
Software engineering, data mining
Dissertation
Mining Bug Repositories for Automatic Software Bug Management: From Bug Triaging to Patch Backporting
Committee MembersAssociate Professor David LO (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Lingxiao JIANG, SIS, SMU
Dr Julia LAWALL
- Senior Research Scientist, INRIA/LIP6
Bingqiao LI (Lena)
Lecturer in Finance
Singapore Institute of Technology, SingaporeSMU PhD in Business, 2016
Research Interests
Corporate Finance
Dissertation
Essays in Corporate Finance
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jeremy GOH (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Aurobindo GHOSH, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Jerry CAO, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Gary CATON
- Montana State University
Huaxia ZENG
Associate Professor (Tenure Track)
Shanghai University of Finance and EconomicsSMU PhD in Economics, 2016
Research Interests
Microeconomics Theory, Mechanism Design
Dissertation
Three Essays on Random Mechanism Design
Committee MembersProfessor Shurojit CHATTERJI (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Takashi KUNIMOTO, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Jingyi XUE, SOE, SMU
Professor Arunava SEN
- Indian Statistical Institute
Jun LIU
Data Scientist
NTUC Enterprise Co-operative, Limited, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2016
Research Interests
Information Systems and Management, Economics & Finance, Data Analytics, Digital Banking, Financial Information Systems & Technology, High Frequency Trading, Mobile Banking, Technology Ecosystem Evolution, and Multi-sided Technology Platforms
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Dan MA (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Robert KAUFFMAN, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Mei LIN, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Beibei LI
- Carnegie Mellon University
Liang JIANG
Assistant Professor
Fanhai International School of Finance
Fudan UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2016
Research Interests
Financial Econometrics, Real Estate Economics
Dissertation
Three Essays on Financial Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Jun YU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Sock Yong PHANG, SOE, SMU
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS, SOE, SMU
Professor Kian Guan LIM
- LKCSB, SMU
Shew Fan LIU
Senior Lecturer in Statistics
School of Economics, SMUSMU PhD in Economics, 2016
Research Interests
Spatial Econometrics, Theoretical Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Zhenlin YANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Yiu Kuen TSE, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Anthony TAY, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Qu FENG
- Division of Economics, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
