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.
Smartwatch-based Early Gesture Detection & Trajectory Tracking for Interactive Gesture-driven Applications
Huy Vu TRAN, Archan MISRA, Quentin ROY, Kenny TSU Wei CHOO, Youngki LEE
Published in Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), 03/2018, Volume 2, Issue 1, Article 39
View PaperSmrtFridge: IoT-based, User Interaction-Driven Food Item & Quantity Sensing
Amit SHARMA, Archan MISRA, Vengateswaran SUBRAMANIAM, Youngki LEE
Paper presented at the 17th Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2019), 10-13 November 2019, New York, USA
View PaperSocial Influence of Competitive Culture on Individual Decision Making
Jia Hao GOH and Joshua REDFORD
Poster presented at the 27th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2015, New York (NY), USA.
Social Media Use Improves Executive Functions in Middle-aged and Older Adults: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
Shuna Shiann KHOO and Hwajin YANG
Published in Computers in Human Behavior, Vol. 111, and
Paper presented at 32nd APS (Association for Psychological Science) Annual Convention 2020 (Virtual), 21-24 May 2020. (DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2020.106388).
Social Signal Processing for Real-Time Situational Understanding: a Vision and Approach
Kasthuri JAYARAJAH, Shuochao YAO, Raghava MUTHARAJU, Archan MISRA, Geeth DE MEL, Julie SKIPPER, Tarek ABDELZAHER, and Michael KOLODNY
Paper published in Proceedings of the 2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pp. 627-632. 19-22 October 2015, Dallas (TX), USA. (DOI: 10.1109/MASS.2015.89)
View PaperSociosexuality and Sexual Conflict in Mating Strategies
Nadhilla Velda MELIA, & Norman P. LI
Published in Shackelford, T. K. & Weekes-Shackelford, V. (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2018, New York: Springer.
Soliciting Resources from Others: An Integrative Review
LIM, J. H., TAI, K., Bamberger, P., & MORRISON, E. W.
Paper published in Academy of Management Annals, 2019
View PaperStack Layout Randomization with Minimal Rewriting of Android Binaries
Yu LIANG, Xinjie MA, Daoyuan WU, Xiaoxiao TANG, Debin GAO, Guojun PENG, Chunfu JIA, and Huanguo ZHANG
Paper published in Information Security and Cryptology - ICISC 2015: 18th International Conference, pp. 229-245. 25-27 November 2015, Seoul, South Korea.
View PaperStay Mindful and Carry On: Mindfulness Buffers COVID-19 Stressor on Work Engagement via Sleep Duration
Michelle Xue ZHENG, Theodore Charles MASTERS-WAAGE, Noriko TAN, Jingxian YAO, Yizhen LU, Jayanth NARAYANAN
Paper published in Frontiers in Psychology. (DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.610156)
View PaperStock Market Reactions to a Price-Increase Preannouncement
Leon Gim LIM, Kapil R. TULI, and Marnik G. DEKIMPE
Paper presented at the 37th ISMS Marketing Science Conference Special Session: Building the Marketing-Finance Interface – Substantive and Methodological Issues, 18-20 June 2015, Baltimore (MD), USA, and at the 44th EMAC Annual Conference Special Session:
Stock Market Reactions to a Price-Increase Preannouncement
Leon Gim LIM, Kapil R. TULI, and Mamik G. DEKIMPE
Presented at the 38th ISMS Marketing Science Conference, 16-18 June 2016, Shanghai, China.
Strategic Planning for Setting Up Base Stations in Emergency Medical Systems
Supriyo GHOSH and Pradeep VARAKANTHAM
Paper presented at the 26th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS'16), 12-17 June 2016, London, UK.
View PaperStructured Interviews Examining the Burden, Coping, Self-efficacy and Quality of Life among Family Caregivers of Persons with Dementia in Singapore
Peter Kay Chai TAY, Dennis Chuen Chai SEOW, Chunxiang XIAO, Julian Hui Min LEE, Helen FK CHIU, and Sally Wai-Chi CHAN
Paper published in Dementia, 2016, Vol 15(2), pp. 204-220 (DOI: 10.1177/1471301214522047).
Subjective Social Class and Life Satisfaction: Role of Class Consistency and Identity Uncertainty
Bek Wuay TANG and Jacinth J.X. TAN
Published in Asian Journal of Social Psychology. (DOI: 10.1111/ajsp.12488).
View PaperSynthesizing Aspect-Driven Recommendation Explanations from Reviews
Trung Hoang LE and Hady W. LAUW
Paper presented at The International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2020), 7-15 January 2021, Yokohama, Japan.
View PaperTemporal Kernal Descriptors for Learning with Time-Sensitive Patterns
Doyen SAHOO, Abhishek SHARMA, Steven C. H. HOI, and Peilin ZHAO
Paper presented at the 2016 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining, 5-7 May 2016, Miami (FL), USA.
View PaperTerm Structure of Predicted versus Realised Excess Asset Return Correlations
Hao CHENG and Kian Guan LIM
Presented at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), 2016, Hong Kong
Testing for Measurement Invariance: Does Your Measure Mean the Same Thing for Different Participants?
Sean LEE Teck Hao
Published in APS Observer. 31. p. 32-33, 2018
View PaperThe Adaptive Value Associated with Expressing and Perceiving Angry-Male and Happy-Female Faces
Peter Kay Chai TAY
Paper published on the Frontiers in Psychology, 2015, Issue 6, Article 851. (DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00851).
The Capacity to Innovate: A Meta-analysis of Absorptive Capacity
Tengjian ZOU, Gokhan ERTUG, Gerard GEORGE
Published in Innovation: Organization & Management, Vol. 20 Issue 2, pp. 87-121, (https://doi.org/10.1080/14479338.2018.1428105)
View PaperThe Cost of Falling Fertility
Hao LIANG, Hanyu ZHANG
Published in China Finance, 2020.
The Effect of Mere Presence of Smartphone on Cognitive Functions: A Meta-analysis
Kasturiratna, K. T. A. S, Jonathan Louis CHIA, Frosch Yi Xuan QUEK, Verity Yu Qing LUA, Nadyanna M. MAJEED, Andree HARTANATO
Poster presented at Society for Personality and Social Psychology Conference (SPSP Conference 2022), 16-19 February 2022, San Francisco, USA.
The Effect of Non-contributory Pensions on Labour Supply and Private Income Transfers: Evidence from Singapore
Yanying CHEN, Yi Jin TAN
Published in the IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2018
View PaperThe Effects of Perceived Decision-Making Styles on Evaluations of Openness and Competence that Elicit Collaboration
Ming-Hong TSAI, Nadhilla Velda MELIA and Verlin HINSZ
Published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2019
View PaperThe Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Description
Rosiana NATALIE, Jolene LOH, Huei Suen TAN, Joshua TSENG, Ian CHAN, Ebrima H JARJUE, Hernisa KACORRI, Kotaro HARA
Paper presented at The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Virtual), 18-22 October 2021.
View PaperThe Efficacy of Collaborative Authoring of Video Scene Descriptions
Rosiana NATALIE, Jolene LOH, Huei Suen TAN, Joshua Tseng, Ian Like Yi-Ren CHAN, Ebrima H JARJUE, Hernissa KACORRI, Kotaro HARA
Paper presented at the The 23rd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Virtual), 18-22 October 2021.
View PaperThe Financial Impact of Ancillary Fees
Leon Gim LIM and Kapil R. TULI
Paper presented at the 39th ISMS Marketing Science Conference, 7 -10 June 2017, Los Angeles, California
The Impact of Production-budget Uncertainty on Stochastic Capacity Investment
Onur BOYABATLI, Boya YANG, Guiyun FENG
Paper presented at The 2019 INFORMS Annual Meeting, 20-23 October 2019 Seattle, WA, USA,
The Importance of Bilingual Experience in Assessing Bilingual Advantages in Executive Functions
YANG Hwajin, and Andree HARTANTO
Paper published in Cortex, 2016, Vol 75, pp. 240 -134 (DOI:10.1016/s13414-016-1068-9).
The Influence of Gratitude on Relationship Satisfaction
Wililam TOV and Ze Ling NAI
Poster presented at the 27th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2015, New York (NY), USA.
The Influence of NFC and Positive Mood on Variety Seeking Behavior
Ze Ling NAI and Hwajin YANG
Poster presented at the 27th Association for Psychological Science Annual Convention, May 2015, New York (NY), USA.
The Influence of Offline Friendship on Twitter Network Behaviors
Youngsoon KIM, Felicia NATALI, Feida ZHU, and Ee-Peng LI
Paper presented at the 49th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, 5-8 January 2016, Kauai (HI), USA,
View PaperThe Influence of Tertiary Education Disciplines on Self-Construals and Conflict Management Tendencies
Shelia Xi Rui WEE, Wan Yee CHOO and Chi Ying CHENG
Published in Frontiers in Psychology, Educational Psychology. (DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.659301)
View PaperThe Instrumental Self-regulated Pursuit of Busyness Affect in the Culture of Busyness
Angela K. Y. LEUNG & Brandon KOH Yuan Rui
Poster presented at the Annual Society for Personality and Social Psychology Convention, 7-9 February 2019, Washington DC, USA
The Interpersonal Effect of Fatigue Expressions on Openness to Alternative Perspectives
Ming-Hong TSAI, Nadhilla Velda MELIA
Poster presented at the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research Conference, 18-20 July 2019, Lisbon, Portugal
The Interpersonal Effect of Guilt Expressions on Cooperation: The Role of Perceived Benevolence and Compensation
Ming-Hong TSAI, Nadhilla Velda MELIA
Poster presented at the 32nd Annual Conference of the International Association of Conflict Management, 7-10 July 2019, Dublin, Ireland
The Long-Term Health Effects of Fatal Malnutrtion : Evidence from the 1959 - 1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine
Seonghoon KIM, Belton FLEISHER, and Jessica Ya SUN
View PaperThe Long-term Health Effects of Fetal Malnutrition: Evidence from the 1959-1961 China Great Leap Forward Famine
Seonghoon KIM, Belton M. FLEISHER, and Jessica Ya SUN
Published in Health Economics, Feb 2018
View PaperThe Making of a Construct: Lessons from 30 Years of the Kogut and Singh Cultural Distance Index
Ilya RP CYUPERS, Gokhan ERTUG, Pursey Pmar HEUGENS, Bruce KOGUT, and Tengjian ZOU
Published in Journal of International Business Studies, 49: 1138. (https://doi.org/10.1057/s41267-018-0181-5)
View PaperThe Negative Consequences of a Job Scarcity Mindset on Jobseekers
Theodore Charles MASTERS-WAAGE, Eva Katharina PETERS, C LOO, Jochen REB
Paper presented at Society of Judgement and Decision Making Annual Conference (Virtual), 9-12 December 2020.
The ripple effect: Basis of social exclusion and team creativity
Guihyun Park, Kenneth TAI, JiaHao GOH, Hui Si OH
Poster presented at 18th European Association of Work and Organizational Psychology Congress, Turin, Italy
View PaperThe Role of Culture in Theories of Creative Cognition
Angela K. Y. LEUNG, & Brandon KOH Yuan Rui
Published in Culture and creativity: Basic processes and applied innovations, pp. 3-33, New York: Oxford University Press.
View PaperThe Role of Different Tie Strength in Disseminating Different Topics on Microblog
Felicia NATALI, Kathleen M. CARLEY, Feida ZHU, and Binxuan HUANG
Paper presented at The 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 31 July - 3 August 2017, Sydney, Australia.
The Strategic Role of Fungible Resources in Organizational Adaptation
Zhefei LI
Presented at the Academy of Management annual meeting, 5-9 August 2016, Anaheim (CA), USA.
The World Predictive Power of U.S Equity Market Skewness Risk
Jian CHEN, Fuwei JIANG, Shuyu XUE, Jiaquan YAO
Published in the Journal of International Money and Finance, 2019
View PaperThey All Seem Good, But Which One Fits Me? Reducing Fit Uncertainty for Digital Entertainment Goods
Ai Phuong HOANG
Paper presented at the 39th Pacific Telecommunications Council Annual Conference, 15 - 18 January, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Time-Series Momentum: Is it there?
Dashan HUANG, Jiangyuan LI, Liyao WANG, Guofu ZHOU
Published in the Journal of Financial Economics, 2019
View PaperTime-series Momentum: Is It There?
Dashan HUANG, Jiangyuan LI, Liyao WANG, Guofu ZHOU
Paper published in Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming.
View PaperTo Ask or Not to Ask: Effect of Age on Advice Seeking
LIM, J. H., ERTUG, G., ZOU, T., & GALUNIC, D. C.
Paper published in Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019
Too Close for Comfort: Effects of Male Intimacy Avoidance In Dyadic Consumption Sharing
Ying Ying XUE (Sherrie), Stephanie C. LIN
Paper presented at the 2020 Annual Society for Consumer Psychology (SCP), 5-7 March 2020, Huntington Beach, California, USA.