The SMU PhD programmes provide opportunities to our students to deepen their research expertise by collaborating with academics from within and outside the SMU community. Over the years, our students have published papers which have contributed towards the pool of academic knowledge. Our students’ research has been listed according to their fields of specialisation. Some of their papers have achieved international recognition through awards.
A Bayesian Chi-Squared Test for Hypothesis Testing
Yong LI, Siao-Bin LIU and Jun YU
Paper published in Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 189(1), pp. 54-69, (DOI:10.1016/j.jeconom.2015.06.021).
View PaperA Characterization of Single-Peaked Preferences via Random Social Choice Functions
Shurojit CHATTERJI, Anurava SEN, and Huaxia ZENG
Paper published in Theoretical Economics, Vol. 11, pp. 711-733 (DOI:10.3982/TW1972).
View PaperA Comparison of Fundamental Network Formation Principles Between Offline and Online Friends on Twitter
Felicia NATALI and Feida ZHU
Paper published in Advances in Network Science: 12th International Conference and School NetSci-X 2016, pp. 169-177, 11-13 January 2016, Wroclaw, Poland.
View PaperA Creative Destruction Approach to Replication: Implicit Work and Sex Morality Across Cultures
Warren TIERNEY, Jay H. HARDY III, Charles R. EBERSOLE, Keith LEAVITT, Domenico VIGANOLA, Elena Giulia CLEMENTE, Michael GORDON, Anna DREBER, Magnus JOHANNESSON, Thomas PFEIFFER, Jason L. HUANG Leigh Ann VAUGHN, Kenneth DeMARREE, Eric R. IGOU, Hanah CHAPMAN, Ana GANTMAN, Matthew VANAMAN, Eric Luis UHLMANN. (Contributed by: Theodore Charles MASTERS-WAAGE)
Paper published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 93. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104060).
View PaperA Hassle-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Method Using Instance Similarity Features
Jianfei YU and Jing JIANG
Paper published in Proceedings of the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 7th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (short papers), pp. 168-173. 26-31 July 2015, Beijing, China.
View PaperA Meditation Toolkit for Business Leaders
Theodore Charles MASTERS-WAAGE, Eva Katharina PETERS, Jochen REB
Article published in Asian Management Insights magazine.
A Meditation Toolkit for Business Leaders
Theodore Charles MASTERS-WAAGE, Eva Katharina PETERS, Jochen REB
Paper published in Asian Management Insight.
A Study on Singapore Haze
Bing Tian DAI, Kasthuri JAYARAJAH, Ee-Peng LIM, Archan MISRA, and Shriguru NAYAK
Paper presented at the 1st International Workshop on Understanding Situations Through Multimodal Sensing (uSitu'16), 4 January 2016, Singapore.
A Time for Creativity: How Future-oriented Schemas Facilitate Creativity
Angela K. Y. LEUNG & Brandon KOH Yuan Rui
Published in Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 2019
Across the Great Divides: Gender Dynamics Influence how Intercultural Conflict Helps or Hurts Creative Collaboration
Mengzi JIN and Roy CHUA
Paper published in Academy of Management Journal, 2019
View PaperActive Semi-Supervised Approach for Checking App Behavior Against Its Description
Siqi MA, Shaowei WANG, David LO, Robert DENG, and Cong SUN
Paper presented at the 39th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference (COMPSAC 2015), 1-5 July 2015, Taichung, Taiwan.
Advertising and Firm Value: Examining the Risk Perspective
Sungkyun MOON, Kapil R. TULI, and Anirban MUKHERJEE
Presented at the Theory and Practice in Marketing (TPM) in Asia, 24 June 2016, Seoul, South Korea
Age Matters: The Effect of Onset Age of Video Game Play on Task-Switching Abilities
Andree HARTANTO, W.X. TOH, and YANG Hwajin
Paper published in Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 2016, Vol 75, pp. 240 -134 (DOI:10.1016/s13414-016-1068-9).
Ambivalent Bosses: An Examination of Supervisor Expressed Emotional Ambivalence on Subordinate Task Engagement
Jiahui LIM, Kenneth TAI, Maryam KOUCHAKI
Paper published in Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes.
An Empirical Study of Mobile Network Behavior and Application Performance in the Wild
Shiwei ZHANG, Weichao LI, Daoyuan WU, Bo JIN, Rocky K. C. CHANG, Debin GAO, Yi WANG, and Ricky K. P. MOK
Paper presented at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS 2019), 24-25
View PaperAn Initial Examination of State and Longitudinal Effects of Loving-Kindness Practice on Affective and Motivational States at Work
Theodore Charles MASTERS-WAAGE, Jochen REB, William TOV, U BANDARA.
Paper published in Mindfulness.
An Integrative Approach to Investigating Bilingual Advantages in Cognitive Decline: The Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Wei Xing TOH, Andree HARTANTO, Joanne Qin Ying TAN & Hwajin YANG
Published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2018
View PaperAngry faces are more resistant to forgetting than are happy faces: directed forgetting effects on the identity of emotional faces
Peter Kay Chai TAY, and Hwajin YANG
Paper published in Journal of Cognitive Psychology, 2017, pp.1-11 (DOI:10.1080/20445911.2017.1323907 )
AnswerBot: Automated Generation of Answer Summary to Developers' Technical Questions
Bowen XU, Zhenchang XING, Xin XIA and David LO
Paper published in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering , pp.706 - 716, 30 October - 3 Novemeber 2017, Illinois, USA. (DOI: 10.1109/ASE.2017.8115681)
View PaperAre Bilinguals Full-time Translators? The Evidence of Implicit Automatic Translation in Indonesian-English Bilinguals
Andree HARTANTO, Lidia SUAREZ, and Lai Teng Yvonne YEN
Poster presented at National Psychology Graduate Students Conference, March 2015, Singapore.
Are Disagreements Agreeable? Evidence from Information Aggregation
Jiangyuan LI, Liyao WANG, Dashan HUANG
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcominig.
View PaperAspect-Based API Review Classification: How Far Can Pre-Trained Transformer Model Go?
Chengran YANG, Bowen XU, Junaed Younus KHAN, Gias UDDIN, Donggyun HAN, Yang ZHOU, David LO
Paper presented at the The 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANEER 2022), (Virtual), 15 March- 18 March 2022, Honolulu, Hawaii.
View PaperAssessing Generalizability of CodeBERT
Xin ZHOU, DongGyun HAN, David LO
Paper presented at 37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2021), 27 September-1 October 2021, Luxembourg.
Assessing Regulatory Focus Differences in Creative Ideation: An Examination of Prevention and Promotion Mindsets on Novelty and Usefulness
Meurzec, R. W., Brandon KOH Yuan Rui, Koronis, G., Kang, J., Yogiaman, C., Silva, A.
Poster presented at the International Conference on Engineering Design, 5-8 August 2019, Delft, The Netherlands
Assessing the Generalizability of code2vec Token Embeddings
Hong Jin KANG, Tegawende F. BISSYANDE, and David LO
Paper presented at the 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019), 24-25 June 2019, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Asymptotic Distribution and Finite Sample Bias Correction of QML Estimators for Spatial Error Dependence Model
Shew Fan LIU and Zhenlin YANG
Paper published in Econometrics, Vol. 3(2), pp. 376-411, (DOI:10.3390/jeconometrics3020376).
View PaperAudioSense: Sound-based Shopper Behavior Analysis System
Amit SHARMA and Youngki LEE
Paper presented at the 4th International Workshop of Ubiquitous Mobile Instrumentation (UbiMI 2017), September 2017, Maui, Hawaii.
AutoFocus: Interpreting Attention-based Neural Networks by Code Perturbation
Duy Quoc Nghi BUI and Yijun YU and Lingxiao JIANG
Paper presented at 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2019), 10-15 November 2019, San Diego, California, USA.
View PaperBackers’ Hidden Network in Crowdfunding: Revealing the Presence and Role of Central Backers on Funding Success
Yee Heng TAN, and Srinivas K. REDDY
Presented at the 38th ISMS Marketing Science Conference, 16-18 June 2016, Shanghai, China.
Balancing Exploration and Exploitation through Principal-agent Interaction
Zheng LEI, Pascale CRAMA and Kannan SRIKANTH
Presented at the Theoretical Organizational Models (TOM) Conference, 29-30 June 2018, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
Basket-Sensitive Personalized Item Recommendation
Duc-Trong LE, Hady W. LAUW and Yuan FANG
Paper presented at the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 17), August 2017, Melbourne, Australia.
View PaperBeyond Support and Confidence: Exploring Interestingness Measures for Rule-Based Specification Mining
Bui Tien Duy LE and David LO
Paper presented at the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2015), 2-6 March 2015, Montréal (QC), Canada.
View PaperBilingualism Narrows Socioeconomic Disparities in Executive Functions and Self-regulatory Behaviors During Early Childhood: Evidence from The Early Childhood Longitudinal Study
Andree HARTANTO, Wei Xing TOH, & Hwajin YANG
Published in Child Development, 2018, (DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13032)
View PaperBilingualism Positively Predicts Mathematical Competence: Evidence from Two Large-scale Studies
Andree HARTANTO, Hwajin YANG, Sujin YANG
Published in Learning and Individual Differences, Vol. 61, pp. 216–227, (DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2017.12.007)
View PaperBiometric Authentication on iPhone and Android: Usability, Perceptions, and Influences on Adoption
Chandrasekhar BHAGAVATULA, Blase UR, Kevin IACOVINO, Mon Kywe SU, Lorrie FAITH CRANOR, and Marios SAVVIDES
Paper presented at 2015 Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium, 8-11 February 2015, San Diego (CA), USA.
View PaperBiometric Authentication on iPhone and Android: Usability, Perceptions, and Influences on Adoption 2
Chandrasekhar BHAGAVATULA, Blase UR, Kevin IACOVINO, Mon Kywe SU, Lorrie FAITH CRANOR, and Marios SAVVIDES
Paper presented at the Workshop on Usable Security (USEC-2015), 8-11 February 2015, San Diego (CA), USA.
View PaperBrain Drain: The Impact of Air Pollution on Firm Performance
Shuyu XUE, Bohui ZHANG, Xiaofeng ZHAO
Published in VoxChina, 12 February 2020.
View PaperBuilding Crowd Movement Model Using Sample-Based Mobility Survey
Larry LIN, Shih-Fen CHENG, and Hoong Chuin LAU
Paper presented at the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 015), 6-9 December 2015, Huntington Beach (CA), USA.
Can Identifier Splitting Improve Open-Vocabulary Language Model of Code?
Jieke Shi, Yang ZHOU, Junda He, Bowen Xu, David Lo
Paper presented at the The 29th IEEE International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution and Reengineering (SANEER 2022), (Virtual), 15 March- 18 March 2022, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Candy Crushing Your Sleep
Kasthuri JAYARAJAH, Meeralakshmi RADHAKRISHNAN, Steven HOI, and Archan MISRA.
Paper published in Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conferenceon Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, pp. 753-769. 149. 7-11 September 2015, Osaka, Japan.
View PaperCausal Nowcasting for Country-Pair Payment Flows When Disruptive Events Occur
Zhiyuan GAO, Zhiling GUO, Prof. Robert J. KAUFFMAN
Presented at the Fourteenth Symposium on Statistical Challenges in Electronic Commerce Research (SCECR 2018), 18-19 June 2018, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Center of Volume Mass: Does Aggregate Option Market Activity Predict Stock Returns?
Gennaro BERNILE, Fei GAO and Jianfeng HU
Paper presented at the 8th Conference on Financial Markets and Corporate Governance, 19 - 21 April, Wellington, New Zealand
CEO Effects on Female Director Appointment: Homophily and Power Perspectives
Qiwen YU and Toru YOSHIKAWA
Channel Integration Services in Online Healthcare Communities
Anqi ZHAO, Qian TANG
Paper presented at The 42nd International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2021) (Virtual), 12-15 December 2021.
Characterizing Silent Users in Social Media
Wei GONG, Ee-Peng LIM, and Feida ZHU
Paper published in Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, pp. 140-49. 26-29 May 2015, Oxford, England.
View PaperCharacterizing Silent Users in Social Media Communities
Wei GONG, Ee-Peng LIM, and Feida ZHU
Paper published in Proceedings of the Ninth International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, pp. 140-149.
View PaperCharitable Fundraising: Gaining Donors' Trust on Online Platforms
Deserina SULAEMAN
Paper presented at the 11th China Summer Workshop on Information Management (CSWIM) 2017, 24 - 25 June 2017, Nanjing, China.
Co-Embedding of Ordinal Data for Multi-Type Visualization
Duy Dung LE and Hady W. LAUW
Paper presented at the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 5-7 May 2016, Miami (FL), USA.
View PaperCode-Switching Patterns Differentially Shape Cognitive Control: Testing the Predictions of the Adaptive Control Hypothesis
Gilaine NG, Hwajin YANG
Published in Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. (DOI: 10.1017/S1366728921000754)
View PaperCognitive Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Older Adults
Jonathan Louis CHIA, Andree HARTANATO
Published in Frontiers in Medicine. (DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2021.756275)
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