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.
Xin ZOU
Assistant Professor in Economics
Institute for Advanced Economic Research
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2019
Research Interests
Urban Economics; Industry Organisation & International Trade
Dissertation
Land Policy and Welfare
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Wen-Tai HSU (Chair), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU
Professor Zheng (Michael) SONG,
- Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xinrui DUAN
Assistant Professor
Shenzhen Audencia Business School
Shenzhen University, ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Asset Pricing
Dissertation
Essays on Anomalies in Asset Pricing
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Jun TU (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Dashan HUANG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhe ZHANG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Sheng HUANG
- China Europe International Business School
Yong Chin TAN
Assistant Professor
City University of Hong Kong, Hong KongSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Digital Marketing, Online and Offline Retail
Committee MembersProfessor Srinivas K. REDDY (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Sandeep CHANDUKALA, LKCSB,SMU
Professor Kapil TULI, LKCSB, SMUProfessor Sunil GUPTA
- Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Yubo TAO
Adjunct Faculty
SOE, Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2019
Research Interests
Financial Econometrics, Econometric Theory
Committee Members
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS (Chair), SOE, SMU Professor Jun YU, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yichong ZHANG, SOE, SMU Professor Anastasios MAGDALINOS, - SOE, University of Southampton
Yuting CHEN
Assistant Professor
College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
SMU PhD in Economics, 2019
Research Interests
International Trade, Industrial Organization
Dissertation
International trade, FDI and Agency Problems
Committee Members
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair), SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Amanda JAKOBSSON, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Bingjing LI, - Department of Economics, National University Singapore
Ze Ling NAI
Research Associate
Geriatric Education and Research Institute
Khoo Teck Puat Hospital
SingaporeSMU PhD in Psychology, 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
Committee Members
Associate Professor William TOV (Chair), SOSS, SMU Associate Professor Angela LEUNG, SOSS,SMU
Associate Professor Kenneth TAN, SOSS, SMU Assistant Professor Eddie TONG - SOSS, National University Singapore
Zhefei LI
Postdoctoral Fellow
Fudan University, ChinaSMU PhD in Business, 2019
Research Interests
Strategic Management, Corporate Strategy, M&A, Divestitures, and Behaviour Strategy
Dissertation
New Perspectives on M&A Research
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Ilya CUYPERS (Co-Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Heli WANG (Co-Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor David GOMULYA, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Mario SCHIJVEN
- University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign
Ai Phuong HOANG
Lecturer, School of Business & Management
RMIT University Vietnam (Saigon Campus)SMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Digital Marketing, Digital Entertainment, Data Analytics in Social Network, Financial Services, Fintech Innovations, Fusion Analytics, Econometrics and Machine-based Methods for Big Data
Committee MembersProfessor Robert J. KAUFFMAN (Chair/ Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Qian TANG, SIS, SMU
- LKCSB, SMU
Professor Ting LI
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
Amy LIM Jia Ying
Lecturer
Murdoch University, SingaporeSMU PhD in Psychology, 2018
Research Interests
Personality and Individual Differences, Social Identity Complexity (particularly in Gender-professional Identity Integration & Performance of Female Professionals), Dark Triad Personality (on Workplace Behaviours), Current Societal Issues
Committee Members
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG (Chair), SOSS, SMU Assistant Professor Jennifer Yuk-Yue TONG, SOSS, SMU Assistant Professor Serena WEE Ghin Hee, SOSS, SMU Associate Professor Roy CHUA - LKCSB, SMU
Andree HARTANTO
Assistant Professor of Psychology (Education)
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Psychology, 2018
Research Interests
Individual Differences in Cognitive Functions, Cognitive Development
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hwajin YANG (Chair/ Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Guihyun PARK, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Ming-Hong TSAI, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Sujin YANG
- Ewha Womans University
Chou Chuen YU
RESEARCH FELLOW
GERIATRIC EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE, SINGAPORESMU PhD in Psychology, 2018
Research Interests
Positive Emotions, Well-being, Organisational Health and Workplace Climate
Committee MembersProfessor David CHAN (Chair), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor William TOV, SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Albert LEE
- SOSS, College of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences,
Nanyang Technological University
Dinh Xuan Bach LE ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIASMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Programming Languages and Software Engineering
Committee Members
Associate Professor David LO (Chair/ Supervisor), SIS, SMU Associate Professor Lingxiao JIANG, SIS, SMU Assistant Professor Hady W. LAUW, SIS, SMU Professor Willem Conradie VISSER - Stellenbosch University
Doyen SAHOO
Senior Research Scientist
Salesforce, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Machine Learning, Data Mining, Online Learning, Deep Learning, Learning with Kernels, Portfolio Optimisation & Malicious URL Detection.
Dissertation
Online Learning with Nonlinear Models
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Steven HOI (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Hady W. LAUW, SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Akshat KUMAR, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Wee Sun LEE
- School of Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore
Fei GAO
Assistant Professor
Singapore Institute of TechnologySMU PhD in Business, 2018
Research Interests
Asset Pricing, Derivatives and ETFs, Risk Management
Dissertation
Essay on Asset Pricing
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Jianfeng HU (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Dashan HUANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Qing TONG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Gennaro BERNILE
- University of Miami Business School
Associate Professor Jie CAO
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Felicia NATALI
Post Doc Research Fellow, Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities
Singapore University of Technology and DesignSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Network Analysis
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Feida ZHU (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Ee-Peng LIM (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Robert J. KAUFFMAN, SIS, SMU
Professor Kathleen M. CARLEY
- Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University
Ferdian THUNG
Research Scientist, School of Information Systems
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Software Engineering, Data Mining, Machine Learning
Dissertation
Recommending APIs for Software Evolution
Committee Members
Associate Professor David LO (Chair/ Supervisor), SIS, SMU Associate Professor Lingxiao JIANG, SIS, SMU Assistant Professor Hady W. LAUW, SIS, SMU Juila LAWALL - Senior Research Scientist, Inria/ LIP6
Jing LU
Machine Learning Scientist
JD.com, Jingdong, ChinaSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Machine Learning
Dissertation
Scalable Online Kernel Learning
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Steven HOI (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Jing JIANG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU
Professor James KWOK
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jing REN
LECTURER, SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, SINGAPORESMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Data Analytics, Business Intelligence, Econometrics, Computational Social Science, Artificial Intelligence, Recommendation Systems, Fintech & Blockchain
Dissertation
Music Popularity, Diffusion and Recommendation in Social Networks: A Fusion Analytics Approach
Committee Members
Professor Robert J. KAUFFMAN (Chair/ Supervisor), SIS, SMU Associate Professor Zhiling GUO, SIS, SMU Assistant Professor Qiuhong WANG, SIS, SMU David R. KING - Advisor & Board Member, Teuvonet Technologies, LLC
Ke XU
Research Scientist, School of Information Systems
Singapore Management University, SingaporeSMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Mobile Platform Security and Privacy, Malware Detection
Dissertation
Advanced Malware Detection for Android Platform
Committee Members
Professor Robert Huijie DENG (Chair/ Supervisor), SIS, SMU Associate Professor Yingjiu LI (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU Associate Professor Debin GAO, SIS, SMU Tieyen LI - Head of Mobile / IoT/ AI Security, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd
Kustini LIM-WAVDE
Managing Editor
Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, SINGAPORESMU PhD in Information Systems, 2018
Research Interests
Data Analytics, Policy Analytics, Informedness and Environmental Sustainability
Committee MembersProfessor Robert J. KAUFFMAN (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Mei LIN, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Zhiling GUO, SIS, SMU
Assistant Research Professor Haibo ZHAI
- Carnegie Mellon University
