Professional Doctorate Graduates

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.

ZHAO Yuan

SMU PhD in Accounting, 2027
ZHENG Xiaosen

SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2027
ZHOU Xin

SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2027
ZHU Jiawen

SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2027
ZHAO Yue

SMU PhD in Accounting, 2026
Ashish BHARDWAJ

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023

Dissertation
Exploring the operationalization of market sensing in a higher education organization

Committee Members
Professor Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA, LKCSB, SMU
Principal Lecturer of Information Systems Patrick THNG, SCIS, SMU
Director Havovi JOSHI, Centre for Management Practice, SMU
Leon QIU Tianci

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023

Dissertation
The cost of Cheap Talk: How campaign promises and default contributions affect donation-based crowd funding success.

Committee Members
Principal Lecturer of Finance ANG Ser Kang (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor LIANG Hao, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor LIM Jamus, ESSEC Business School
Ajjaree LIMPAMONT

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Dissertation
Predicting success and failure factors of Thai Start-ups. An Empirical study of start-up success and its determinants in Thailand

Committee Members
Philip Charles ZERRILLO (Chair/Supervisor), SMU-affiliated

Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA, LKCSB (OM), SMU

Senior Lecturer Patrick THNG, SCIS, SMU
Amanda AW YONG Zhi Xin

SMU PhD in Accounting, 2023

Research Interests
Blockchain, Digital Transformation, Voluntary Disclosure

Dissertation
The Role of Disclosure in DeFi Markets

Committee Members
Professor Liandong ZHANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOA, SMU
Associate Professor Holly YANG, SOA, SMU
Assistant Professor Richard CROWLEY, SOA, SMU
Assistant Professor Weikai LI, LKCSB, SMU
Amit BAKSHI

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Research Interests
Industrial marketing, strategy, value pricing, and innovation.

Dissertation
Internet of things solutions (IOTS) adoption for capital goods in the business to-business (B2B) market

Committee Members
Professor Jin Kyung HAN (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU

Professor Kapil R. TULI, LKCSB, SMU

Assistant Professor Alan MEGARGEL, SCIS, SMU
Andrew Cheng Ghee HENG

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Research Interests
Creativity and Culture

Dissertation
The impact of working from home on employee creativity: A cross cultural comparison of Germany and China

Committee Members
Associate Professor Roy CHUA (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Kenneth TAI, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zou XI, College of Business (Nanyang Business School) - Division of Leadership, Management & Organization, NTU
Angelique Nicole THANG

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Dissertation
Modelling sentiment and order aggressiveness in cryptocurrency markets: An empirical analysis of the Bitcoin limit order book

Committee Members
Associate Professor Joe ZHANG Zhe (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Dan MA, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Gloria YU, LKCSB, SMU
BIAN, Sheng

SMU-ZJU Doctor of Business Administration (Accounting & Finance), 2023

Dissertation
The relationship between medical equipment management outsourcing and performance

Committee Members
Associate Professor Hao LIANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB (Finance), SMU
Assistant Professor Yin WANG, SOA, SMU
Professor Jiang WEI, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Bing RUAN

SMU-ZJU Doctor of Business Administration (Accounting & Finance), 2023

Dissertation
The impact of equity incentive executive compensation on corporate performance

Committee Members
Associate Professor Fangjian FU (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Heng YUE, SOA, SMU
Vice-President of SOM, Junsheng DOU, School of Management, Zhejiang University
Bing SUN

SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Research Interests
Big data analysis, Blockchain technology, Supply Chain Operations Optimization

Dissertation
Reading between the lines of the second-hand e-commerce business in China: A study of consumer behaviour Xianyu second-hand platform

Committee Members
Associate Professor Tin Seong KAM (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Zhiling GUO, SCIS, SMU
Professor Wei JIANG, Management Science, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Professor Zhiqiang ZHENG, Information Systems, Naveen Jindal School of Management, The University of Texas at Dallas
Bo ZHANG
Chairman of Shandong Weiqiao Pioneering Group, Chairman and CEO of China Hongqiao Group

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Research Interests
Business Management

Dissertation
Employees’ job positions, psychological ownership, and commitment to change

Committee Members
Professor Lily KONG (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Roy CHUA, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Yijiang WANG, Economics and Human Resource Management, CKGSB
CAI, Ying

SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Dissertation
Study on the Relationship Between REITs Industry Characteristics and Project Performance: The Moderating Role of Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Committee Members
Associate Professor Jun TU (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB (Finance), SMU
Assistant Professor Jing LI, SOE, SMU
Professor Chunyan HUANG, Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business
Caleb Chun Kwan CHU

SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023

Research Interests
Culture, Power, Innovation

Dissertation
How resources affect cultural tightness-looseness and creativity in large and small organizations

Committee Members
Professor Roy CHUA (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Hannah CHANG, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Angela LEUNG, SOSS, SMU
CAO Jingguan

SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023

Dissertation
Determinants of Business Organization's Adoption of Complex Innovative Product: A Case of the Intelligent IoT System for Hog-raising

Committee Members
Associate Professor Dan MA (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Fangjian FU, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Guohua WAN, Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ce ZHANG
Postdoctoral Researcher, Yale University, USA

SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2023

Research Interests
Graph Representation Learning, Graph Neural Networks, Text Mining

Dissertation
Document graph representation learning

Committee Members
Associate Professor Hady Wirawan LAUW (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Professor Jing JIANG, SCIS, SMU
Professor Baihua ZHENG, SCIS, SMU
Professor Jiliang TANG, Computer Science and Engineering Department, Michigan State University

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