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.
Yazhe WANG
Data Scientist
Tiktok, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2015
Research Interests
Social Network Analysis, Data Mining
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Baihua ZHENG (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Hwee Hwa PANG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Kyriakos MOURATIDIS, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Cong GAO
- Nanyang Technological University
Yingjie DONG
Assistant Professor, Business School
University of International Business and Economics, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2015
Research Interests
Financial Econometrics, High-frequency Financial Data Analysis
Dissertation
Essays on High-frequency Financial Data Analysis
Committee MembersProfessor Yiu Kuen TSE (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Jun YU, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Anthony TAY, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Aurobindo GHOSH
- LKCSB, SMU
