Professional Doctorate Graduates

Pooja MISHRA
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Indian School of Business, India

SMU PhD in Business, 2019

Research Interests
Diversity and inclusion in organizations. Her current research projects focus on how women, people from lower-class backgrounds, and older workers fare in organizations. These projects seek to understand how organizations can be designed to be inclusive t

Dissertation
The Role of Family-Work Interface in Explaining the class ceiling

Committee Members

Associate Professor Marko PITESA (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Nina SIROLA, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Michael SCHAERER, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Remus ILIES
- National University of Singapore

Prakash Bagri

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
The Multidimensionality of Business Risk Implications for its Classification, Interpretation &amp; Management

Committee Members

Professor Philip ZERRILLO (Supervisor/Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Abhijeet K. VADERA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Rajendra K. SRIVASTAVA
- Dean and Novartis Professor, Indian School of Business, India

Rameshwari Rasammah RAMACHANDRA

SMU Doctor of Business Administration (Innovation), 2019

Dissertation
How Ties with Family Members Influence Professionals' Creativity in Family Businesses: The Role of Hive Effect and Trust

Committee Members
Associate Professor Roy CHUA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Thomas MENKHOFF
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG
- School of Social Sciences, SMU

Roy LEE Ka Wei
Assistant Professor
Singapore University of Technology and Design

SMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019

Research Interests
Data Science, Knowledge Discovery & Data Mining, Machine Learning, Social Computing, Social Network Analysis

Dissertation
Analyzing and Modeling Users in Multiple Online Social Platforms

Committee Members

Professor Ee-Peng LIM (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU

Associate Professor Baihua ZHENG (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU

Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU

Loo Nin TEOW
- Head of Laboratory (Cognition & Fusion Lab), DSO National Laboratories

Shuohang WANG
Researcher
Microsoft, USA

SMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019

Research Interests
Natural Language Processing

Dissertation
Question Answering with Textual Sequence Matching

Committee Members

Associate Professor Jing JIANG (Supervisor/Chair), SIS, SMU

Associate Professor Baihua ZHENG (Co-Supervisor), SIS, SMU

Associate Professor David LO, SIS, SMU

Assistant Professor Wei LU
- Information Systems Technology and Design, Singapore University of Technology and Design

Steven Glenn BURTON

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2019

Dissertation
An Exploratory Comparative Study of Experts and Generalists as Change Management Leaders in Non-Core Areas of Organizations

Committee Members

Professor Philip ZERRILLO (Supervisor/Chair)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Anne-Valerie OHLSSON-CORBOZ
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Vicente FABELLA
- President, Jose Rizal University, Philippines

Sung Kyun MOON
Assistant Professor of Marketing
Bocconi University, Italy

SMU PhD in Business, 2019

Research Interests
Financial Implications of Marketing Actions and the Disclosure of Marketing Information; Implications of Marketing Executives in the Top Management Team of a Firm; Marketing Strategy

Dissertation
Financial Market Implications of Marketing Actions and the Disclosure of Marketing Information

Committee Members

Professor Kapil TULI (Chair), LKCSB, SMU

Professor Srinivas K. REDDY, LKCSB,SMU
Professor Jin K. HAN, LKCSB, SMU

Visiting Assistant Professor Anirban MUKHERJEE

- INSEAD University
Professor Rajdeep GREWAL
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Tran Bao Phuong NGUYEN
Research Fellow
Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

SMU PhD in Economics, 2019

Research Interests
International Economics

Dissertation
Three Essays on International Economics: Global Value Chains of Singapore and the CPTPP; The Effects of Oil Price Shocks on Trade

Committee Members
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair), SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Amanda JAKOBSSON, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Tian LIN, - INSEAD

Vinika Devasar RAO

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2019

Dissertation
Regulatory Focus and Female Leadership Development: How Male Leaders Modify the Self-Regulating Focus of Mid-Career Female Followers to Motivate their Pursuit of Future Career Progress

Committee Members

Associate Professor Hwee Hoon TAN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Gilbert TAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Professor Paddy V. PADMANABHAN
- INSEAD, Singapore

Wanshan SONG
Assistant Professor
Shanghai University Of Finance And Economics, China

SMU PhD in Business, 2019

Research Interests
Market Microstructure, short selling, retail investors, ETFs

Dissertation
Essays in Asset Pricing

Committee Members

Professor Ekkehart BOEHMER (Chair), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhe ZHANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Jianfeng HU, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Ashish TIWARI
- University of Iowa

Wenyong LEI

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2019

Dissertation
Research on Extreme Poverty Governance Based on Social Network Analysis

Committee Members
Professor Heli WANG (Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Yijing WANG (Co-Supervisor)
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Assistant Professor Hao LIANG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Xiaoxiao TANG

SMU PhD in Information Systems, 2019

Research Interests
Mobile Application and System Security

Dissertation
Sensitive Behaviour Analysis of Android Applications on Unrooted Devices in the Wild

Committee Members

Associate Professor Debin GAO (Chair/Supervisor), SIS, SMU
Professor Robert DENG, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Xuhua DING, SIS, SMU
Associate Professor Zhenkai LIANG
- National University of Singapore

Xiaoying CHEN

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2019

Dissertation
Battling Counterfeiting in Massive Market: Designing and Evaluating an ID-tag Based Solution for Product Monitoring and Controlling

Committee Members
Associate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Jing LIU (Co-Supervisor)
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Assistant Professor David GOMULYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Xin ZOU
Assistant Professor in Economics
Institute for Advanced Economic Research
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, China

SMU PhD in Economics, 2019

Research Interests
Urban Economics; Industry Organisation & International Trade

Dissertation
Land Policy and Welfare

Committee Members

Associate Professor Wen-Tai HSU (Chair), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU
Professor Zheng (Michael) SONG,
- Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Xinrui DUAN
Assistant Professor
Shenzhen Audencia Business School
Shenzhen University, China

SMU PhD in Business, 2019

Research Interests
Asset Pricing

Dissertation
Essays on Anomalies in Asset Pricing

Committee Members

Associate Professor Jun TU (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Dashan HUANG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhe ZHANG, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Sheng HUANG
- China Europe International Business School

Yidan CHEN

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2019

Dissertation
Towards a Holistic Approach of Evaluating Higher Education Institutes

Committee Members
University Professor Arnoud DE MEYER (Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Bing XIANG (Co-Supervisor)
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Professor Gerald GEORGE
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Yong Chin TAN
Assistant Professor
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

SMU PhD in Business, 2019

Research Interests
Digital Marketing, Online and Offline Retail

Dissertation
Empirical Investigation of Digital Strategies in Online Retail

Committee Members

Professor Srinivas K. REDDY (Chair), LKCSB, SMU

Associate Professor Sandeep CHANDUKALA, LKCSB,SMU
Professor Kapil TULI, LKCSB, SMU

Professor Sunil GUPTA

- Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

Yubo TAO
Adjunct Faculty
SOE, Singapore Management University

SMU PhD in Economics, 2019

Research Interests
Financial Econometrics, Econometric Theory

Dissertation
Three Essays on Nonstationary Time Series Analysis and Network Dynamics

Committee Members
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS (Chair), SOE, SMU Professor Jun YU, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yichong ZHANG, SOE, SMU Professor Anastasios MAGDALINOS, - SOE, University of Southampton

Yufeng CHI

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2019

Dissertation
Relationship between Shared Leadership and Team Innovation in Creative Industry

Committee Members
Professor Hween Hoon TAN (Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Yijing WANG (Co-Supervisor)
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business Associate Professor Gilbert TAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU

Yuting CHEN
Assistant Professor
College of Business, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China

SMU PhD in Economics, 2019

Research Interests
International Trade, Industrial Organization

Dissertation
International trade, FDI and Agency Problems

Committee Members
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair), SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Amanda JAKOBSSON, SOE,SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU Assistant Professor Bingjing LI, - Department of Economics, National University Singapore

Pooja MISHRA
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Indian School of Business, India