SMU's first Professional Doctorate Programme was launched in 2012 and we had our first graduate in 2015.
You can view details of SMU's Professional Doctorate graduates.
Huiyu HE
SMU PhD in Accounting, 2023
Research Interests
Disclosure, Accounting Standards, Financial Reporting Quality, Real Investment, Insider Trading
Committee MembersProfessor Xia CHEN (Chair/Supervisor), SOA, SMU
Associate Professor Yun LOU, SOA, SMU
Professor Liandong ZHANG, SOA, SMU
Assistant Professor Gloria YU, LKCSB, SMU
Jiajing LING
SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2023
Research Interests
Reinforcement Learning, Multi-Agent Systems, Neuro-symbolic AI
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Akshat KUMAR (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Anh Tien MAI, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Arunesh SINHA, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers University
Kevin Han Boon LIM
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Effective Leadership, Organization Strategy, Organizational Design
Dissertation
Leadership through effective communication
Committee MembersProfessor Timothy CLARK (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Mark CHONG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Angela LEUNG, SOSS, SMU
Kheng Tat Marcus TAN
SMU PhD in Economics, 2023
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, Search and Matching Theory, and Monetary Economics
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Nicolas Laurent JACQUET (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Ismail BAYDUR, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Jianhuan XU, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Serene TAN, Department of Economics, NUS
Kok Fong BEH
SMU Doctor of Innovation, 2023
Committee MembersProfessor Pascale CRAMA (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Helen Yangfang ZHOU, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jacob RICKS, SOSS, SMU
Kuo-Chang FU International Association for Agriculture Sustainability, Founder from 2017, Singapore
Chinese Institute of Business Education Development, Founder from 2014, TaiwanSMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023
Research Interests
Agriculture Sustainability, Family Business Succession, Education Innovation
Dissertation
Exploring the development of an agribusiness ecosystem for Singapore: Lessons from Taiwan
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Hao LIANG, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Annie KOH, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Tzong Ru LEE, Marketing, National Chung Hsing University
Kwok Cheng Bryan CHOY
SMU PhD in Psychology, 2023
Research Interests
Evolutionary Psychology, Social Cynicism, Sex Differences, Mate Preferences.
Committee MembersProfessor Norman LI (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Kimin EOM, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Kenneth Yu-Yang TAN, SOSS, SMU
Professor Mark van Vugt, Department of Experimental and Applied Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Lai Hing TAN
SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence,Chatbots,Financial services distribution models (including customer experience, distributor experience and employee experience),Board effectiveness,Leadership,Technology investments in financial services, particularly in insurance.
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hannah Hanwen CHANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Shih-Fen CHENG, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Ai Ching LIM, Division of Marketing, NTU
Lei ZHANG
SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Customer Value Creation, Product Positioning, Supply Chain Design
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yun Fong LIM (Chair/ Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Dan MA, SCIS, SMU
Professor Guohua WAN, Management Science, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Lenz Koon Bin TAN
SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023
Dissertation
The effects of prior trading performance have on risk-taking of subsequent trading - The House Money Effect.
Committee MembersProfessor Melvyn TEO (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jimmy LEE, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jianfeng HU, LKCSB, SMU
Lidian ZHANG
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Dissertation
An EST approach to entrepreneurial exit in Chinese family business: A case study of H company
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hwee Hoon TAN (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Ming-Hong TSAI, SOSS, SMU
Professor Rui ZHU, Marketing, CKGSB
Liling LU
SMU PhD in Business, 2023
Research Interests
Innovative business models in capacity management and online platforms, Content generation.
Dissertation
Essays on new business models in operations
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Xin FANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Yini GAO, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Guiyun FENG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Onur BOYABATLI, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Burak KAZAZ, Syracuse University
Lu JIANG Head of Sales and Marketing, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, Macau & Taiwan, TK Elevator: Aug 2021 till now
Director, China Sales and Channel Management, OTIS: April 2021 to Aug 2021
Director, Sales and Marketing, Southeast Asia, OTIS: July 2019 to April 2021
General Manager, Otis Macau: May 2016 to July 2019
Director, Asia, Elevator & Escalator Product Marketing, United Technologies Company: Sep 2015 to May 2016
General Manager, China, ASSA ABLOY Entrance System: May 2013 to May 2015
Managing Director, China, GEZE GmbH: March 2011 to May 2013SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Organizational trust, Personal value, Confucian value, Chinese culture measurements, Trust in supervisors, Work effort, Performance
Dissertation
How do values matter in the relation between organizational trust and performance? The case of China
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hwee Hoon TAN (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Gilbert Yip Wei TAN, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Ming-Hong TSAI, SOSS, SMU
Meng Kiat Gary ANG Monetary Authority of Singapore
SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2023
Research Interests
Graph Learning, Time-Series Modeling, Applications of Deep Learning in Finance and Design
Dissertation
Learning dynamic multimodal networks
Committee MembersProfessor Ee-Peng LIM (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Feida ZHU, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Qianru SUN, SCIS, SMU
Ghim Eng YAP, Data Engineering, Government Technology Agency of Singapore
Meng LIU Institution/Company: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Designation: Assistant Professor
Country: China
SMU PhD in Economics, 2023
Research Interests
Development Economics, Economics of Culture, Economic History
Dissertation
Essays on culture, institutions, and development
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Tomoki FUJII (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Madhav Shrihari ANEY, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Fali HUANG, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Gedeon LIM, Economics, University of Hong Kong
Mengyu JI
SMU PhD in Information Systems, 2023
Research Interests
Urban Mobility & Smart Commuting, Driver Decision-making, Strategic Recommendations for Drivers.
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Shih-Fen CHENG (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Anh Tien MAI, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Arunesh SINHA, Management Science & Information Systems, Rutgers University
Moo Kung KIM
SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023
Research Interests
CSR (ESG), Corporate governance, Corporate Finance and International Business.
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hao LIANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jimmy LEE, SOA, SMU
Associate Professor Johan SULAEMAN, Finance, NUS
Na ZHAO
SMU PhD in Business, 2023
Research Interests
Cultural tightness, Creativity, Socioeconomic Status, Gender
Dissertation
The interactive effects of societal and organizational cultural tightness on employee work related outcomes
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Roy CHUA (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Devasheesh BHAVE, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Kenneth TAI, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zou XI, Nanyang Business School, NTU
Nanyan ZHENG
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Dissertation
Exploring a suitable youth football training model for China: From the perspective of customer engagement
Committee MembersProfessor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor David OCON, SOSS, SMU
Professor Rui ZHU, Marketing, CKGSB
Pei Chi LO
SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2023
Research Interests
Knowledge Graph-Based Information Retrieval, User Profiling, Computational Linguistics
Committee MembersProfessor Ee-Peng LIM (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jing JIANG, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan FANG, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Aixin SUN, School of Computer Science and Engineering, NTU