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.
Optical Jackknife for Unit Root Models
Chen YE and Jun YU
Paper published in Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 99, pp. 135-142, (DOI:10.1016/j.spl.2014.12.014).
View PaperOwnership History and Experienced-based Decision Making
Xiao-Tian WANG, Lay See ONG, and Jolene H. TAN
Paper presented at the 25th Subjective Probability, Utility, And Decision Making Conference (SPUDM), 16-20 Aug 2015, Budapest, Hungary.
PACELA: A Neural Framework for User Visitation in Location-based Social Networks
Thanh Nam DOAN, Ee-Peng LIM
Presented at The 26th Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP 2018), 8-11 July 2018, Singapore
View PaperPanel Threshold Regression with Latent Group Structures
Ke MIAO, Liangjun SU, Wendu WANG
Paper published in the Journal of Econometrics, Vol. 214 (2), pp. 451-481. (DOI: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2019.07.006).
View PaperPervasive Physical Analytics Using Multi-Modal Sensing
Sougata SEN
Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on COMmunication systems and NETworkS (COMSNETS 2016), 5-9 January 2016, Bangalore, India.
View PaperPost2Vec: Learning Distributed Representations of Stack Overflow Posts
Bowen XU,Thong HOANG, Abhishek SHARMA, Chengran YANG, Xin XIA, David LO
Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. (DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2021.3093761).
View PaperPower and Negotiation: Review of Current Evidence and Future Directions
Michael SCHAERER, Laurel TEO, Nikhil MADAN, & Roderick I. SWAAB
Paper published in Current Opinion in Psychology , 2019
View PaperPower Versus Inequality: Which is the Proximate Predictor of Interpersonal Trust?
du Plessis, C., Schaerer, Hoang Bao My NGUYEN, M. H. B., Foulk, T.
Paper presented at International Association for Conflict Management (Virtual), 12-14 July 2021.
Paper presented at Academy of Management Annual Meeting (Virtual), 29 July-4 August 2021.
Predicting Bundles of Spatial Locations from Learning Revealed Preference Data
Truc Viet LE, Siyuan LIU, Hoong Chuin LAU, and Ramayya KRISHNAN
Paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS-15), 4-8 May 2015, Istanbul, Turkey.
Prediction of Sleep Quality in Live-Alone Diabetic Seniors Using Unobtrusive In-Home Sensors
Barry NUQOBA and Hwee-Pink TAN
Paper presented at ITAP: 7th International Conference on Human Aspects of IT for the Aged Population (Part of the 23rd HCI International Conference, HCII 2021) (Virtual), 24-29 July 2021, Washington DC, USA.
Prediction of Venues in Foursquare using Flipped Topic Models
Wen Haw CHONG, Bing Tian DAI, and Ee-Peng LIM
Paper presented at the 37th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2015), 29 March-2 April 2015, Vienna, Austria.
Privacy at Work: A Review and a Research Agenda for a Contested Terrain
Devasheesh P. BHAVE, Laurel TEO, & Reeshad S. DALAL
Paper published in Journal of Management, 2019
View PaperPrivacy-Preserving and Verifiable Data Aggregation
Ngoc Hieu TRAN, Robert DENG, and HweeHwa PANG
Paper presented at The Singapore Cyber-Security Conference (SG-CRC) 2016, 14 - 15 January 2016, Singapore
Proactive and Reactive Coordination of Non-dedicated Agent Teams Operating in Uncertain Environments
Pritee AGRAWAL, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM and William YEOH
Paper presented at the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 17), August 2017, Melbourne, Australia.
View PaperProbabilistic Inference Based Message-Passing For Resource Constrained DCOPs
Supriyo GHOSH, Akshat KUMAR, and Pradeep VARAKANTHAM
Paper presented at the 24th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2015), 25-31 July 2015, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
View PaperProbabilistic Verification of Neural Networks Against Group Fairness
Bing SUN, Jun SUN, Ting DAI, Lijun ZHANG
Paper presented at The 24th International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM2021) (Virtual), 20-26 November 2021, Beijing, China.
View PaperPsychological Science of Multiculturalism
Angela K. Y. LEUNG & Brandon KOH Yuan Rui
Published in the Handbook of Cultural Psychology (2nd edition), 2019
View PaperQuieting the Storm: Mindfulness Amplifies Moral Emotions yet Muffles Punitive Responses towards Corporate Deviants
KAY, A, Masters-Waage, Theodore. C., VLACHOS, P., REB, J.
Paper presented at the 19th annual Trans-Atlantic Doctoral Conference, 29 May- 1 June 2019, Washington DC, USA and The 79th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, 9-13 August 2019, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
View PaperR3: Reinforced Reader-Ranker for Open-Domain Question Answering
Shuohang WANG, Mo YU, Xiaoxiao GUO, Zhiguo WANG, Tim KLINGER, Wei ZHANG, Shiyu CHANG, Gerald TESAURO, Bowen ZHOU, Jing JIANG
Presented at The Thirty-Second AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-18), 2-7 February 2018, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
View PaperReal-Time Detection of Seat Occupancy and Hogging
Huy Hoang Huy NGUYEN, Nakul GULATI, Youngki LEE, and Rajesh Krishna BALAN
Paper published in Proceedings of the 2015 International Workshop on Internet of Things towards Applications (IoT-App 2015), pp. 29-34. 1 November 2015, Seoul, South Korea.
View PaperRecent Advances in Deep Learning for Object Detection
Xiongwei WU, Doyen SAHOO and Steven C. H. HOI
Published in Neurocomputing, In press. (DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2020.01.085).
Refusal to Believe that One has been Deceived: Persistence of Placebo Effects after Debriefing
Brandon KOH
Poster presented at the 27th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2015, New York (NY), USA.
Registered Replication Report: Dijksterhuis and van Knippenberg (1998)
Nadhilla Velda MELIA, et al.
Published in Perspectives on Psychological Science, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p. 268-294, 2018
View PaperReinforcement Learning Approach to Solve Dynamic Bi-Objective Police Patrol Dispatching and Rescheduling Problem
Waldy JOE, Hoong Chuin LAU, Jonathan PAN
Paper presented at the 32nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS), 13 June- 24 June 2022, Singapore.
Reinforcement Learning for Zone Based Multiagent Pathfinding Under Uncertainty
Jiajing LING and Tarun GUPTA and Akshat KUMAR
Paper presented at The International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2020), 19-30 October 2020, Nancy, France.
Reinforcement Learning Framework for Modeling Spatial Sequential Decisions under Uncertainty
Truc Viet LE, Siyuan LIU, and Hoong Chuin LAU
Paper presented at the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), 9-13 May 2016, Singapore.
Representation Learning on Multi-Layered Heterogeneous Network
Ce ZHANG and Hady W. LAUW
Paper presented at 2021 The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Virtual), 13-17 September 2021.
View PaperReputation and Status: Expanding the Role of Social Evaluations in Management Research
Gerard GEORGE, Linus DAHLANDER, Scott D. GRAFFIN, and Samantha Su-Hsien SIM
Published in Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 59, pp. 1-13. (DOI: 10.5465/amj.2016.4001).
Resisting Problematic Smartphone Use: Distracter Resistance Strengthens Grit’s Protective effect Against Problematic Smartphone Use
Shuna Shiann KHOO, Hwajin YANG
Paper published in Personality and Individual Differences (DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2022.111644)
View PaperRevisiting Neuron Coverage Metrics and Quality of Deep Neural Networks
Yang ZHOU, Jieke Shi, Muhammad Hilmi Asyrofi, 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.
Revisiting the Miller-Kanazawa debate: Should Asia be Afforded More Attention from Evolutionary Psychologists?
Sean Teck Hao LEE
Published in the Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
View PaperRobust Repositioning to Counter Unpredictable Demand in Bike Sharing Systems
Supriyo GHOSH, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, and Michael TRICK
Paper presented at the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16), 9-15 July 2016, New York (NY), USA.
View PaperSafeStack+: Enhanced Dual Stack to Combat Data-Flow Hijacking
Yan LIN, Xiaoxiao TANG, and Debin GAO
Paper presented at the 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2017), 3 - 5 July 2017, Auckland, New Zealand.
Sample-efficient Iterative Lower Bound Optimization of Deep Reactive Policies for Planning in Continuous MDPs
Siow Meng LOW, Akshat KUMAR, Scott SANNER
Paper presented at The Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2022) (Virtual), 22 February - 1 March 2022.
Scalable Greedy Algorithms for Task/Resource Constrained Multi-Agent Stochastic Planning
Pritee AGRAWAL, Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, and William YEOH
Paper presented at the 25th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI'16), 9-15 July 2016, New York (NY), USA.
View PaperSCLib: A Practical and Lightweight Defense against Component Hijacking in Android Applications
Daoyuan WU, Yao CHENG, Debin GAO, Yingjiu LI, Robert H. DENG
Presented at The 8th ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY 2018), 19-21 March 2018, Tempe, Arizona, USA
View PaperSeeking Control During Uncontrollable Times: Control Abilities and Religiosity Predict Stress During COVID-19
Shuna Shiann KHOO, Weixing TOH and Hwajin YANG
Published in Personality and Individual Differences, Vol. 175. (DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2021.110675).
View PaperSeeking Independent Management of Problem Behavior: A Proof-of-Concept Study with Children and their Teachers
Nur Camellia Binte ZAKARIA, Richard C. DAVIS, and Zachary WALKER
Paper presented at the 15th ACM SIGCHI Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC 2016), 21-24 June 2016, Manchester, UK.
Segmented Equity and CDS markets: Information Startegy and Distress Risk Premiums
Hao CHENG and Kian Guan LIM
Paper presented at NYU-Shanghai Business School, October 2017, China
Semantic Patches for Java Program Transformation
Hongjin KANG, Ferdian THUNG, Julia LAWALL, Gilles MULLER, Lingxiao JIANG, David LO
Paper presented at the European Conference on Object Oriented Programming 2019 (ECOOP 2019), 15-19 July 2019, Hammersmith, London, UK
Semantic Visualisation with Neighborhood Graph Regularization
Tuan M. V. LE and Hady LAUW
Paper published in Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, Vol. 55, pp. 1091-1133 (DOI: 10.1613/jair.4983).
View PaperSemi-Supervised Semantic Visualization for Networked Documents
Ce ZHANG and Hady W. LAUW
Paper presented at 2021 The European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (Virtual), 13-17 September 2021.
View PaperSense and Sensibility of Ownership: Typology of Ownership Experience and Valuation of Goods
Xiao-Tian WANG, Lay See ONG, and Jolene H. TAN
Paper published on the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, Vol. 58, pp. 171-177 (DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2015.04.010).
View PapersFuzz: An Efficient Adaptive Fuzzer for Solidity Smart Contracts
Duy Tai NGUYEN ,Long H. PHAM, Sun JUN, Lin YUN and Tran Minh QUANG
Paper presented at 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2020), 6-11 July 2020, Seoul, South Korea.
View PaperSGUARD: Towards Fixing Vulnerable Smart Contracts Automatically
Duy Tai NGUYEN, Long H. PHAM, Jun SUN
Paper presented at 42nd IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.
View PaperSimple or Complex? Together for a More Accurate Just-In-Time Defect Predictor
Xin ZHOU, DongGyun HAN, David LO
Paper presented at the 30th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2022) (Virtual), 16 May- 17 May 2022, Pittsburgh, USA.
Single-shot Bidirectional Pyramid Networks for High-quality Object Detection
Xiongwei WU, Doyen SAHOO, Daoxin ZHANG, Jianke ZHU and Steven C. H. HOI
Published in Neurocomputing, In press. (DOI:10.1016/j.neucom.2020.02.116).
Smart Monitoring via Participatory BLE Relaying
Meeralakshmi RADHAKRISHNAN, Sougata SEN, Archan MISRA, Youngki LEE, Rajesh Krishna BALAN
Presented at the 10th International Conference on COMmunication Systems & NETworkS (COMSNETS 2018), 3-7 January 2018, Bangalore, India
View PaperSmartphone Addiction and Checking Behaviors Predict Aggression: A Structural Equation Modeling Approach
Shuna Shi Ann KHOO, Hwajin YANG
Published in International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. (DOI: 10.3390/ijerph182413020)
View PaperSmartphones and BLE Services: Empirical Insights
Meeralakshmi RADHAKRISHNAN, Archan MISRA, Rajesh Krishna BALAN, and Youngi LEE
Paper published in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, pp. 226-234. 19-22 October 2015, St Louis (MO), USA.
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