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.
Nadhilla Velda MELIA
Lecturer
James Cook University, SingaporeSMU PhD in Psychology, 2021
Research Interests
Emotions, Conflict Management, Social Psychology, Decision Making
Committee Members
Associate Professor Ming-Hong TSAI (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor William TOV, SOSS, SMU Assistant Professor Michael GENKIN, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Michael SCHAERER, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Andree HARTANTO, SOSS, SMU
Ngai Meng HO
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021
Dissertation
The Role of Employee Proactive Behaviors in Influencing Supervisors' Trust in Employees
Committee MembersProfessor Donald L. FERRIN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Shereen FATIMAH
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Andree HARTANTO
- School of Social Sciences, SMU
Nicholas Teck Boon YEO
SMU PhD in Business, 2021
Research Interests
Humanitarian Operations, Healthcare Operations
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Yini GAO (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Onur BOYABATLI, LKCSB, SMU
Niyazi TANERI, Senior Lecturer
- Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Peng WANG
Research Fellow
National University of SingaporeSMU PhD in Business, 2021
Research Interests
Flexible Resource Allocation, Workforce Management in Production and Services, Stochastic Modeling, Robust Optimisation, Data Analytics, Machine Learning
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yun Fong LIM (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Yini GAO, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhichao Daniel ZHENG, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Melvyn SIM
- National University of Singapore
Peng Yam KOH
Consultant
The Lantau Group, SingaporeSMU PhD in Business, 2021
Research Interests
Quantitative Marketing, Big Data, Consumer Search, Intermediation, New Empirical Industrial Organisation, Discrete Choice Methods
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Ernst Christiaan OSINGA (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Sandeep R. CHANDUKALA, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Kapil TULI, LKCSB, SMUProfessor Bart BRONNENBERG
- Tilburg University
Qian LUO
SMU PhD in Business, 2021
Research Interests
Healthcare Analytics, Sustainable Operations, Socially Responsible Operations
Dissertation
Essays on Management of Scarce Resources
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Onur BOYABATLI (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Buket AVCI, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhichao Daniel ZHENG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Rowan WANG,
- Southern University of Science and Technology
Senior Lecturer Niyazi TANERI
- Judge Business School, University of Cambridge
Qiugu HE
Assistant Professor
Nankai University, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2021
Research Interests
Macroeconomics, International Trade, Industrial Organisation
Dissertation
Two Essays on Innovation and Growth in China
Committee Members
Assistant Professor Jianhuan XU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Bo ZHAO
- Peking University
Reem Fihran A. ALSHEHRI
SMU Doctor of Innovation, 2021
Committee Members
Associate Professor Reddi KOTHA (Chair/ Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Sarah Lai Yin CHEAH
- National University of Singapore
Renjing CHEN
Assistant Professor
Wuhan University, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2021
Research Interests
International Trade
Dissertation
Three Essays on International Trade
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Amanda JAKOBSSON, SOE, SMU
Professor Pushan DUTT
- INSEAD, Singapore
Rohan RAY
Research Fellow
NUS Global Institute, SingaporeSMU PhD in Economics, 2021
Research Interests
Development Economics, Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconomics
Committee Members
Associate Professor Tomoki FUJII (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Christine HO, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Seonghoon KIM, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Abu S. SHONCHOY
- Florida International University
Shengqin ZHU
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hwee Hoon TAN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Yijiang WANG
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Associate Professor Gilbert Yip Wei TAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Xi ZOU
- Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University
Thi Anh Tram LE
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2021
Committee Members
Associate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Chair/Supervisor),
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Dr Burkhard N Schrage, Senior Program Manager
- RMIT University, Vietnam
Wa Fong HOI
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021
Committee MembersProfessor Heli WANG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Xueong GENG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Zhiling GUO
- School of Computing and Information Systems
Professor Jianwen LIAO
-Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Wei Xing TOH
Post Doctoral Fellow
Stanford University, USASMU PhD in Psychology, 2021
Research Interests
Executive Function, Emotion Regulation, Well-being, Ageing
Dissertation
To Switch or Not to Switch: Individual Differences in Executive Function and Emotion Regulation Flexibility
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hwajin YANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor William TOV, SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Norman LI, SOSS, SMU
Professor Giyeon KIM, Department of Psychology
- Chung-Ang University
Wentao BAI
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Fangjian FU (Chair/Supervisor)
-Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Chunsheng ZHOU
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Associate Professor Heng YUE
-School of Accountancy, SMU
Xiaoming SONG
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2021
Dissertation
Study on the Ideas for Developing of M&A Funds in China in the Context of Economic Transformation
Committee MembersProfessor Xia CHEN (Chair/Supervisor)
- School of Accountancy, SMU
Associate Professor Fangjian FU
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Jing LIU
-Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Xueying BIAN
Lecturer
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, ChinaSMU PhD in Economics, 2021
Research Interests
Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, FinTech, Energy Economics
Dissertation
Three Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing
Committee MembersProfessor Jun YU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Jun TU, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Daniel PREVE, SOE, SMUAssistant Professor Weikai LI, LKCSB, SMU
Yajie ZHANG
Adjunct Faculty
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2021
Research Interests
Financial Econometrics, Econometric Theory
Committee Members
Professor Jun YU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS (Co-chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yichong ZHANG, SOE, SMU Professor Shuping SHI
- Macquarie University
Yan HE
SMU PhD in Business, 2021
Research Interests
Healthcare Operations Management, Business Analytics, Operations Planning, Scheduling and Control
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Daniel Zhichao ZHENG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Guiyun FENG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Hai WANG, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Yini GAO (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Yan LIN
Research Scientist
School of Computing and Information Systems, SMUSMU PhD in Computer Science, 2021
Research Interests
Software Security, System Security, Mobile Security
Dissertation
Novel Techniques in Recovering, Embedding, and Enforcing Policies for Control-Flow Integrity
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Debin GAO (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Professor Robert Huijie DENG, SCIS, SMU
Professor David LO, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Zhenkai LIANG
-School of Computing, National University of Singapore
