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.
Duc Thien NGUYEN
Data Scientist
OCBC Bank, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
AI & Machine Learning
Committee MembersProfessor Hoong Chuin LAU (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Akshat KUMAR (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, SIS, SMU
Qin ZHENG
- Deputy Department Director, Senior Scientist, Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR
Duc Trong LE
Lecturer (Assistant Professor)
University Of Engineering and Technology, Vietnam National University, HanoiSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Preference Learning, Recommender Systems, Social Network Mining
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hady W. LAUW (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan FANG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Siu Cheung HUI
- National Technological University
Hao CHENG
Research Engineer (Associate)
GIC Private Limited, SingaporeSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Empirical Asset Pricing
Dissertation
Three Essays on Credit Default Swaps
Committee MembersProfessor Kian Guan LIM (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Fangjian FU, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jun TU, LKCSB, SMUAssociate Professor Ying CHEN
- Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore
Hoang Phuong Que VU
Adjunct Faculty
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2019
Research Interests
Macroeconomics Theory Growth Economics Monetary and Fiscal Policy Financial Economics
Committee Members
Professor Hian Teck HOON (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Jungho LEE, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Ismail BAYDUR, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Wai Mun CHIA
- SOE, Nanyang Technological University
Jianfei YU
Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Engineering,
School of Artificial Intelligence,
Nanjing University of Science and Technology (NJUST), ChinaSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing, Sentiment Analysis, Information Extraction, Question Answering, Text Classification
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jing JIANG (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Hady W. LAUW (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Feida ZHU, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Sinno PAN Jialin
- Nanyang Technological University
JinGi HA
Head of Research Department
Heritage Capital Management Pte Ltd, SingaporeSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Market microstructure, Institutional trading, Mutual fund governance, Institutional management
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Jianfeng HU (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Ekkehart BOEHMER, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Roger LOH, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Gennaro BERNILE
- University of Miami
Kasthuri JAYARAJAH
Research Fellow
Living Analytics Research Centre (LARC)
Singapore Management University, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing, Collaborative Sensor Networks, Edge Computing
Committee MembersProfessor Archan MISRA (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN, SIS, SMU
Professor Ee-Peng LIM, SIS, SMU
Shili XIANG
- Scientist II, Data Management and Optimization Lab Head, Data Analytics Department
Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR
Professor Ramayya KRISHNAN
- Heinz College, Carneige Mellon University
Professor Anind DEY
- iSchool, University of Washington
Kenny CHOO Tsu Wei
Senior Lecturer
Singapore University of Technology and DesignSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Empathetic Computing, Mobile Sensing, Context Monitoring
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Rajesh Krishna BALAN (Chair/Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Youngki LEE (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Archan MISRA, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor JeongGil KO
- Ajou University
Kraivin Paripont CHINTAKANANDA
Assistant Professor of Management
Faculty Of Business Administration
University of Macau, MacauSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Organizational ethics, leadership, and workplace emotions
Dissertation
Flexible Moral Behavior in the Workplace
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Michael BASHSHUR (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Gary GREGURAS, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Marko PITESA, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Eric UHLMANN
- INSEAD, Singapore
Larry LIN Junjie
Lead Data Scientist
Grab, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Shih-Fen CHENG (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Hoong Chuin LAU (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, SIS, SMU
Professor Kathleen Mary CARLEY
- Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Li GUO
Assistant Professor
Fudan University, ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Empirical Asset Pricing, Behaviour Finance, FinTech
Dissertation
Information Diffusion and Market Friction
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jun TU (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Rong WANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Dashan HUANG, LKCSB, SMUProfessor Hai LU
- University of Toronto
Maksim TKACHENKO
Advisor, Data Science & Operations Research
FedEx, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing, Text Mining, Data Mining, Information Extraction, Graphical Models
Dissertation
Comparison Mining from Text
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hady W. LAUW (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Baihua ZHENG, SIS, SMU
Xiaoli LI
- Department Head, Data Analytics, Institute for Infocomm Research, A*STAR
Mengzi JIN
Assistant Professor
Peking University, Guanghua School of ManagementSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Creativity, Innovation, Diversity in the Workplace
Committee MembersProfessor Roy CHUA (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Ronald BLEDOW, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Kenneth TAI, LKCSB, SMUAssociate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG
- SOSS, SMU
Pooja MISHRA
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Indian School of Business, IndiaSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Diversity and inclusion in organizations. Her current research projects focus on how women, people from lower-class backgrounds, and older workers fare in organizations. These projects seek to understand how organizations can be designed to be inclusive t
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Marko PITESA (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Nina SIROLA, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Michael SCHAERER, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Remus ILIES
- National University of Singapore
Roy LEE Ka Wei
Assistant Professor
Singapore University of Technology and DesignSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Data Science, Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Machine Learning, Social Computing, Social Network Analysis
Committee MembersProfessor Ee-Peng LIM (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Baihua ZHENG (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU
Loo Nin TEOW
- Head of Laboratory (Cognition & Fusion Lab), DSO National Laboratories
Shuohang WANG
Researcher
Microsoft, USASMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Natural Language Processing
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jing JIANG (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Baihua ZHENG (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Wei LU
- Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Sung Kyun MOON
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Bocconi University, ItalySMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Financial Implications of Marketing Actions and the Disclosure of Marketing Information; Implications of Marketing Executives in the Top Management Team of a Firm; Marketing Strategy
Dissertation
Financial Market Implications of Marketing Actions and the Disclosure of Marketing Information
Committee MembersProfessor Kapil TULI (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Srinivas K. REDDY, LKCSB,SMU
Professor Jin K. HAN, LKCSB, SMUVisiting Assistant Professor Anirban MUKHERJEE
- INSEAD University
Professor Rajdeep GREWAL
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Tran Bao Phuong NGUYEN
Research Fellow
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMUSMU PhD in Economics, 2019
Research Interests
International Economics
Committee Members
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair), SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Amanda JAKOBSSON, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Tian LIN, - INSEAD
Wanshan SONG
Assistant Professor
Shanghai University Of Finance And Economics, ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Market Microstructure, short selling, retail investors, ETFs
Dissertation
Essays in Asset Pricing
Committee MembersProfessor Ekkehart BOEHMER (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhe ZHANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Jianfeng HU, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Ashish TIWARI
- University of Iowa
Xiaoxiao TANG
SMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019
Research Interests
Mobile Application and System Security
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Debin GAO (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Robert DENG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Xuhua DING, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Zhenkai LIANG
- National University of Singapore
