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.
Mikko Samuli NIEMELAE
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Cyber risks
Dissertation
Do Hacker Groups Pose a Risk to Organizations? Study on Financial Institutions Targeted by Hacktivists
Committee MembersSenior Lecturer of Finance ANG Ser Keng (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor SAY Gui Deng, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Jussi Keppo, Business School, NUS
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
Nurul Asyikeen Binte AZHAR
SMU Doctor of Engineering, 2023
Research Interests
Environmental economics, production scheduling, operations research, artificial intelligence, machine learning
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Aldy GUNAWAN (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Associate Professor Shih-Fen CHENG, SCIS, SMU
Principal Data Engineer Erwin LEONARDI, Rio Tinto Ltd
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
Pingan LUO
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Dissertation
Study on visibility promotion for regional high-end hotels based on the value co-creation theory
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hannah Hanwen CHANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG, SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Yang LI, Marketing, CKGSB
Prashant SARAN
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Cyber risks
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Lieven DEMEESTER (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Winston CHOW, CIS, SMU
Associate Professor Onur BOYABATLI, LKCSB, SMU
Qian ZENG
SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Dissertation
Using nudge to drive WeChat Mini Program traffic: Evidence from randomized field experiment
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Zhiling GUO (Chair/Supervisor), SCIS, SMU
Assistant Professor Linyi LI, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jifeng LUO, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qianliang XIA
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Upper echelons
Dissertation
CEO polychronicity and firm resilience
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Liang CHEN (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Rencheng WANG, SOA, SMU
Associate Professor Luqun XIE, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Qiwen YU
Tongji University, Research Fellow, China
SMU PhD in Business, 2023
Research Interests
Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Strategy, Corporate Governance, and Strategic Leadership
Dissertation
Essays on corporate social (ir)responsiblity, alliance formation and stock market reaction
Committee MembersProfessor Heli WANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Ilya CUYPERS, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Daniel MACK, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Jun XIA, Organizations, Strategy and International Management, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
Ratnadira WIDYASARI
SMU PhD in Computer Science, 2023
Ronnie NG
SMU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Committee MembersAssociate Professor TAN Hwee Hoon (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Professor Angela LEUNG, CIS, SMU
Professor LU Lin, Antai College of Economics Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ruijie ZHANG
ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai, China, from September 2023
SMU PhD in Business, 2023
Research Interests
Behavioral Operations Management, Healthcare Operations, and Last-mile Operations.
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Yun Fong LIM (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Zhichao Daniel ZHENG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor Xin FANG, LKCSB, SMU
Assistant Professor, Zhenzhen YAN, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, NTU
Seema CHOKSHI
SMU PhD in Business (General Management), 2023
Research Interests
Seema's research is related to factors that build trust in Artificial Intelligence and the role of AI Ethics in AI adoption in Management.
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Xuesong GENG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB (Strategic Management), SMU
Lee Kong Chian Professor Shantanu BHATTACHARYA, LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Jiwei WANG, SOA, SMU
Shancheng CHEN
SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
IPO underpricing ratio; underwriters’ reputation
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Hao LIANG (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor Sterling HUANG, SOA, SMU
Associate Professor, Songtao WANG, ACEM (Finance), Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shaoying LUO
SMU-CKGSB Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Wee Liang TAN (Chair/Supervisor), LKCSB, SMU
Associate Professor David GOMULYA, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Jianwen LIAO, CKGSB
Professor Hoe Chin GOI, NUCB Business School, Graduate School of Management
Sheila Xi Rui WEE
SMU PhD in Psychology, 2023
Research Interests
Social Psychology, Cross-cultural Psychology, Multiracials, Kiasu (Fear of Losing Out), Self-construals
Committee MembersAssociate Professor Chi-Ying CHENG, SOSS, SMU
Assistant Professor Jacinth TAN, SOSS, SMU
Professor Angela LEUNG, SOSS, SMU
Professor Fiona LEE, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan
Shengxi LIU
SMU-ZJU Doctor of Business Administration (Accounting & Finance), 2023
Research Interests
This article selects the hot coil industry as the research object to explore whether hedging strategies based on the profits of the hot coil futures industry chain can better serve physical enterprises. 1) Can hot rolled physical enterprises utilize the v
Committee MembersLee Kong Chian Professor Liandong ZHANG (Chair/Supervisor), SOA, SMU
Associate Professor Jianfeng HU, LKCSB, SMU
Dean Jiang WEI, School of Management, Zhejiang University
SHI Haifeng
SMU-SJTU Doctor of Business Administration, 2023
Research Interests
Recyclable packaging, corporate social responsibility, environmental attitude, consumer behavior
Committee MembersProfessor Angela LEUNG (Chair/Supervisor), SOSS, SMU
Associate Professor Hannah Hanwen CHANG, LKCSB, SMU
Professor Liangyan WANG, Shanghai Jiao Tong
