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.
Shuyu XUE
Assistant Professor
School Of Finance
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2020
Research Interests
Empirical Corporate Finance
Dissertation
Essays on Corporate Finance
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Fangjian FU (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Rong WANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Hao LIANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Wei ZHANG
- School of Law, SMU
Tanvi VERMA
Research Scientist
Institute of High Performance Computing
A* STAR, SingaporeSMU PhD in Computer Science, 2020
Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning; Multi-agent Systems; Game Theory
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Hoong Chuin LAU (Co Chair/Co Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Shih-Fen CHENG, SIS, SMU
Professor Sarit KRAUS
- Bar-llan University
Tengjian ZOU
Assistant Professor
Zhejiang University, ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2020
Research Interests
Status, Social Networks, Learning
Dissertation
How Does Status Affect Peformance and Learning from Failure? Evidence from Online Communities
Committee MembersProfessor Gokhan ERTUG (Chair/ Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Ilya CUYPERS, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Reddi KOTHA, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Gianluca CARNABUCI
- ESMT Berlin
Tingting LANG
Assistant Professor
Renmin University of ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2020
Research Interests
Entrepreneurship; High Reliability Organisation; Social Networks
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jochen REB (Chair/ Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Marko PITESA, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Thomas MENKHOFF, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Ravi S. KUDESIA
-Temple University
Wenqi LIAN
SMU PhD in Business, 2020
Research Interests
R&D Management, Innovation Management
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Pascale CRAMA, (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Onur BOYABATIL, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Niyazi TANERI
-National University of Singapore
Ximing LIU
Data Scientist
Shopee, SingaporeSMU PhD in Computer Science, 2020
Research Interests
User Authentication, System Security, Mobile Security
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yingjiu LI (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Robert DENG Huijie (Co-chair/Co-supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Debin GAO, SIS, SMU
Tieyan LI
- Head of AI Security, Huawei Singapore Research
Xin YI
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
School of Economics
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
International Trade and Regional Economics
Dissertation
Three Essays on International Trade Policies
Committee Members
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Jungho LEE, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor of Economics Bingjing LI
- National University of Singapore
Xin ZHENG
Assistant Professor
Sun Yat Sen University, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
Econometrics
Dissertation
Three Essays on Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Liangjun SU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yichong ZHANG, SOE, SMU
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Qu FENG
- Nanyang Technological University
Xiongwei WU
Research Fellow
Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC)
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Computer Science, 2020
Research Interests
Deep Learning & Computer Vision
Dissertation
Deep Learning for Real-world Object Detection
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Steven HOI (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Guosheng LIN
- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University
Yanbo LIU
Assistant Professor
Shandong University, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
Econometrics, Network Economics
Dissertation
Essays on Nonstationary Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Jun YU, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yichong ZHANG, SOE, SMU
Professor Junye LI
- ESSEC Business School
Yijie FEI
Assistant Professor
Hunan University, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
Time Series Analysis and Financial Econometrics
Dissertation
Essays on Time Series and Financial Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Jun YU (Chair/Supervisor), Professor, SOE, SMU
Professor Peter C.B. Phillips, Professor, SOE, SMU
Assistant Profesor Yichong ZHANG, Assistant Professor, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Xiaohu WANG
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Yiu Lim LUI
Assistant Professor in Economics
Institute for Advanced Economic Research
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
Time Series Econometrics, Financial Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Jun YU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS, SOE, SMU
Professor Thomas J. SARGENT, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Weilin XIAO
- School of Management, Zhejiang University
Yuchuan LIU
SMU PhD in Business, 2020
Research Interests
Leadership, Inequality and Social Mobility
Dissertation
Followers’ Reactions to Leader Differentiation
Committee MembersProfessor Gary J GREGURAS (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Michael Ramsay BASHSHUR LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Marko Pitesa LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Christian TROSTER
-Kuhne Logistics University
Yuhong XU
SMU PhD in Economics, 2020
Research Interests
Spatial Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Zhenlin YANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Anthony TAY, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Jing LI, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Wen-Chi LIAO
- National University of Singapore
Yunshi LAN
Postdoctoral Fellow
Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC)
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Computer Science, 2020
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing
Dissertation
Using Knowledge Bases for Question Answering
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jing JIANG (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Feida ZHU (Co Chair/Co Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU
Associate Research Professor Lun-Wei KU
- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica
Abhishek SHARMA
Machine Learning Engineer
Veracode, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Software Engineering, Software Analytics, Mining Software Repositories
Committee MembersAssociate Professor David LO (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW, SIS, SMU
Nachiappan NAGAPPAN
- Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research
Agus SULISTYA
Vice Rector of Support
Telkom Institute of Technology, IndonesiaSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Committee MembersAssociate Professor David LO (Chair/Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Ee-Peng LIM (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jiang LIANG, SIS, SMU
Christoph TREUDE
- Senior Lecturer and ARC DECRA Fellow, University of Adelaide
Camellia ZAKARIA
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USASMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Mobile Systems, Social Computing, Psychology, Organizational Behavior
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN (Chair/Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Youngki LEE (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Kenneth GOH, SIS, SMU
Professor Archan MISRA, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Julie KIENTZ
- University of Washington
Daoyuan WU
Research Assistant Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong KongSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Mobile Security, Program Analysis, and Crowdsourcing
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Debin GAO (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Robert DENG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Yingjiu LI, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Rocky K.C. CHANG
- Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Di SIMA
Assistant Professor
Institute for Social and Economic Research, Nanjing Audit UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2019
Research Interests
Political Institution and Economic Growth/Development; Economic Structure Transformation and Income Distribution; Education and Innovation
Committee Members
Associate Professor Fali HUANG (Chair), SOE, SMU Associate Professor Madhav S.ANEY, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Jungho LEE, SOE, SMU Associate Professor Haoming LIU, - Department of Economics, National University Singapore
