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.
Ke CHEN
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Xuesong GENG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG
- School of Social Sciences, SMU
Professor Rui ZHU
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of BusinessLai Kuan Kim WONG
SMU Doctor of Business Administration (Innovation), 2022
Committee MembersProfessor Toru YOSHIKAWA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Jungho LEE
- School of Economics, SMU
Assistant Professor Daniel MACKLaurel TEO
SMU PhD in Business, 2022
Research Interests
Psychological Impact of A.I. and Emerging Technologies at Work, Future of Work, Privacy, Ethics
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Michael Ramsay BASHSHUR (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Devasheesh BHAVE, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Filip LIEVENS, LKCSB, SMU
Professor David De CREMER,
- NUS Business SchoolLian LIU
SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yun Fong LIM (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Qian TANG
- School of Computing and Information Systems, SMU
Associate Professor Ming JIANG
- Antai College of Economics and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong UniversityLiujiang FENG
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersProfessor Gerard GEORGE (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Xuesong GENG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor Sock Yong PHANG
- School of Economics, SMU
Professor Jing LIU
-Cheung Kong Graduate School of BusinessMatthew Louis DEARTH
SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2022
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Roger LOH (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Rong WANG
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Peter JOOS
- INSEAD
Ming Huan TAN
SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2022
Research Interests
Pretrained Language Models, Multiword Expressions and Chinese Idioms, Text Generation, Multimodal Pretraining
Committee MembersProfessor Jing JIANG (Supervisor/Chair), SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan FANG, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Wei GAO, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Aixin SUN
- Nanyang Technological UniversityNanjing LI
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yun Fong LIM (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Hai WANG, SCIS, SMU
Professor Guohua WAN, Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityNimisha KERSARWANI
SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2022
Dissertation
Organizational Factors that Facilitate Collective Social Entrepreneurship: An Exploratory Study
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor David GOMULYA
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Samuel TAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Obuchettiar Krishnaraj ARUL
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Alan MEGARGEL (Chair/Supervisor)
- School of Computing and Information Systems, SMU
Jack Jia Jun HONG, Adjunct Faculty
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Professor David LO
- School of Computing and Information Systems, SMU
Ser Kang ANG, Principal Lecturer
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMUPaulo Daniel SALLES RAMOS
Research Fellow
Singapore Management UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2022
Research Interests
Microeconomics, Game Theory, Social Choice Theory, Implementation Theory, Mechanism Design
Committee Members
Professor Shurojit CHATTERJI (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Jingyi XUE, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Takashi KUNIMOTO, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Peng LIU
- East China Normal UniversityQuoc Tuan TRUONG
Applied Scientist
Amazon, CanadaSMU PhD in Computer Science, 2022
Research Interests
Machine Learning Methods, Information Retrieval: Search and Recommendation, Mining the Web and Human Behavioural Data
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hady W. LAUW (Supervisor/Chair), SCIS, SMU
Professor Jing JIANG, SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan FANG, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Jie ZHANG
- Nanyang Technological UniversityRahul BANERJEE
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersProfessor Gerry GEORGE (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Assistant Professor Jared NAI
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Paul GRIFFIN
- School of Computing and Information Systems, SMURajiv Ranjan KUMAR
SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2022
Research Interests
Data-driven Optimization and Planning, Sequential Decision Making, Decision Making Under Uncertainty, Game Theory for Large Scale Multi (Selfish) Agents Systems, Reinforcement Learning and Multi Agent Decision-making
Dissertation
Towards Improving System Performance in Large Scale Multi-Agent Systems with Selfish Agents
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Pradeep VARAKANTHAM (Supervisor/Chair), SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Arunesh SINHA, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Shih-Fen CHENG, SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor William YEOH
- Washington UniversityRui WANG
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersProfessor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Fali HUANG
- School of Economics, SMU
Professor Jing LIU
- Cheung Kong Graduate School of BusinessShenxi SONG
Data Scientist (Economist)
Lazada, SingaporeSMU PhD in Economics, 2022
Research Interests
International Trade and Global Value Chain
Committee Members
Associate Professor Pao-Li CHANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Yuan MEI, SOE, SMU
Assistant Professor Amanda JAKOBSSON, SOE, SMU
Associate Professor Mostafa BESHKAR
- Indiana UniversityShuna Shi Ann KHOO
SMU PhD in Psychology, 2022
Research Interests
Social media and smartphone use, differences in excessive technology use, executive functions and individual differences, global mental health and population health
Dissertation
Battling Self-Esteem Issues During SNS Use: A Multilevel Latent Variable Path Analysis Approach
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hwajin YANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor William TOV, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Kimin EOM, SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Haewoon KWAK, SCIS, SMU
Shuyao KE
Assistant Professor
Jinan UniversitySMU PhD in Economics, 2022
Research Interests
Econometric Theory, Financial Econometrics
Committee MembersProfessor Liangjun SU (Chair/Supervisor), SOE, SMU
Professor Jun YU, SOE, SMU
Professor Peter C.B. PHILLIPS, SOE, SMU
Professor Sainan JIN
- Tsinghua UniversityTengjiao HUANG
SMU PhD in Psychology, 2022
Research Interests
Burnout, Work Engagement, Social Inequality, Well-being
Committee MembersAssistant Professor Jacinth TAN (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Michael Ramsay BASHSHUR, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor William TOV, SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG, SOSS, SMUThian Kiang TAN
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2022
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Xuesong GENG (Chair/Supervisor)
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Hwee Hoon TAN
- Lee Kong Chian School of Business, SMU
Associate Professor Sarah Lai Yin CHEAH
- NUS Business School, National University of Singapore