Researchers

Research Themes:

Ian ANG
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Research Interests:

Program Evaluation, Population Health, Health Services Research, Health Behaviors, Dietary Behaviors, Gamification, Telehealth, Technology-enabled Health Communication

Eduardo ARARAL
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Research Interests:

Public Policy, Collective Action

Prateek BANSAL
Civil and Environmental Engineering, College of Design and Engineering

Research Interests:

Consumer Behaviour Models, Cognitive Psychology, Neurophysiological Data, Adaptive Infrastructure Planning, Causal Inference, Bayesian Machine Learning, AI for Smart Mobility 

Filip BILJECKI
Department of Architecture, College of Design and Engineering Department of Real Estate, Business School

Research Interests:

Urban Informatics, Geospatial Data Science, Data-driven Urban Planning, Crowdsourcing, Human-centred GeoAI, Visual Perception, Urban Digital Twins, Social Media Analysis 

Ben BLUMSON
Philosophy

Research Interests:

Computational Metaphysics, Interactive Theorem Proving, Automated Reasoning 

Shaoyu CAI
College of Design & Engineering

Research Interests:

Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Multimodal Interface Design 

Bibhas CHAKRABORTY
Duke-NUS

Research Interests:

Mobile and Digital Health, Behavioral Interventions, Innovative Experimental Designs / Adaptive Clinical Trials (including MOST, SMART, MRT, etc.), Reinforcement Learning, Machine Learning 

Wei Jie CHAN
Physics

Research Interests:

Quantum Computing, Interacting Complex Systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Non-Hermitian Physics 

Tianqi CHEN
Centre for Quantum Technologies

Research Interests:

Quantum Computing, Interacting Complex Systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Biophysics

Nan CHEN
Information Systems and Analytics

Research Interests:

Online Platforms, Technology and AI, Competition and Welfare, Developing Countries 

Sophie Xiaolin CHENG
Social Work

Research Interests:

Mental Health, System Dynamics 

Jack Meng-Tat CHIA
Department of History

Research Interests:

Buddhism and AI, Digital Humanities

Emily CHUA
Sociology and Anthropology

Research Interests:

Anthropology of Value, Communication and Exchange, Digital-financial Capitalism and Socialism, Speculative Ventures (from Tech Startups to Retail Investing), Digital Currencies and Assets, Past and Present Futures

Gerard Siew Keong CHUNG
Social Work

Research Interests:

Text Data Analysis, Text-based Counseling, Technology and AI, GenAI Role-playing, Social Service Sector, Social work 

Hannah Eleanor CLAPHAM
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Research Interests:

Infectious Disease Transmission, Vaccination, Social Contacts, Inequalities 

Alex COOK
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Research Interests:

Infectious Diseases, Public Health Policies, Mathematical Modelling, Computational Modelling, Bayesian Statistics 

Maria De IORIO
Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Research Interests:

Data Science, Bayesian Statistics, Digital Humanities, Computational Methods 

Kenneth DEAN
Chinese Studies

Research Interests:

Digital Humanities, TEI, GIS, SNA, OCL, Critical Heritage Studies, 3D Visualizations, Chinese Temples and Associations, Rituals, Spirit Mediums 

Xiaopan DING
Psychology

Research Interests:

Children’s Learning, Deception Detection, Selective Learning, Online Privacy Understanding

Yanhong DONG
Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies & NUSMED

Research Interests:

Cognition, Neuropsychology, Behavioural Changes, Neuroimaging, VR, AI in Brain Training, Digital Brain Health 

Xinming DU
Department of Economics

Research Interests:

Environmental Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Digital Economy, Climate and Ecosystem, Remote Sensing 

Lin DU
Department of Chinese Studies & Department of Japanese Studies

Research Interests:

AI Interpretability and Explainability (XAI), Computational Cultural Analysis, Digital Humanities, Computer Vision for Historical Visual Archives, Digital Historical Forensics, Historical Media Studies 

Ruben DURANTE
Department of Economics

Research Interests:

Political Economy, Media Economics, Development Economics 

Akira ENDO
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Research Interests:

Infectious Disease Models, Outbreak Response, Heterogeneous Social Structures and Contact Patterns

Sacha EPSKAMP
Department of Psychology, FASS

Research Interests:

Psychometrics, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Data Science, AI, Complexity

Miguel ESCOBAR VARELA
English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies

Research Interests:

Machine Learning, NLP, Network Analysis, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Indonesia

Qiao FAN
Center for Quantitative Medicine (CQM), Duke-NUS

Research Interests:

High-dimensional Genomics Data Analysis, Genetic Epidemiology, Risk Prediction Modelling, Occupational Genome 

Chen-Chieh FENG
Geography

Research Interests:

GIS, Geospatial Data Science, Social Sensing, Information Retrieval

Nathaniel GAN
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence, Philosophical Logic

Jie GAO
Political Science

Research Interests:

Computational Methods in Understanding Government Policy and Behavior, AI Regulation and its Implications on Public Policymaking and Implementation 

Siddharth GEORGE
Department of Economics

Research Interests:

Development Economics, Political Economy, Labour Economics

Joydeep GHOSH
Energy Studies Institute

Research Interests:

Economic Modelling, Carbon Markets, International Trade

Lorenz GOETTE
Department of Economics

Research Interests:

Behavioral Economics, Behavioral Economics of AI, Experimental Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Environmental Economics

Khim Yong GOH
Information Systems and Analytics

Research Interests:

Consumer and Firm Behaviors in Social-Mobile Media and Digital Platforms, Economics of Digital Media and Platforms, Marketing and Advertising in Digital Media Environments, Applied Machine Learning and Econometric Analysis Methods 

Ivan GONZALEZ-CABRERA
Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (NUS)

Research Interests:

Agent-based Modeling, Evolutionary Game Theory, Cultural Evolution, Social Norms, Punishment & Enforcement, Cooperation

Jungpil HAHN
Information Systems and Analytics

Research Interests:

Computational Modeling and Simulations, Computational Organization Theory, Complex Adaptive Systems Theory, Open and Crowd-based Innovation

Chao HAN
Chinese Studies

Research Interests:

Human and Machine Translation and Interpreting, Manual and Automatic Assessment of Translation, Cognitive and Behavioral Modeling of Human Evaluators of Translation, Reception of Technologized Translation, Meta-research 

Andrew HARRIS
Department of Paediatrics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine

Research Interests:

Archaeology, Digital Field Methods, Digital Artifact Analysis, GIS, Database Creation, OCR 

Elaine HO
Geography

Research Interests:

Ageing, Transnational Migration, Diasporas, Mobility, Social Networks, Qualitative GIS 

Soo Jung HONG
Communications and New Media

Research Interests:

Health & Risk Communication: Uncertainty, Privacy, AI Risk, Message Effect

Yumeng HOU
Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies

Research Interests:

Computational Humanities, Digital Archives, Data Visualisation, Expanded Curation, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Embodiment

Kean J. HSU
Department of Psychology

Research Interests:

Depression, Anhedonia, Anxiety, Cognitive Biases, Executive Functioning, Computational Psychiatry, Predictive Modelling, Social Media, Experimental Psychopathology, Drift Diffusion Modelling

Bei HU
Chinese Studies

Research Interests:

Translation Technologies, LLM Technologies, AI Ethics, Trustworthy AI Technologies, Technology-enabled Health Communication

Stefan HUEBNER
Asia Research Institute

Research Interests:

Environmental Humanities / History, Oceanic History, Anthropocene Studies, Energy Transitions, GIS and Database Building, Digital Historical Archives 

Kokil JAIDKA
Communications and New Media

Research Interests:

Computational Communication, Social Media, Text as Data 

Shao Hai JIANG
Communications and New Media

Research Interests:

Patient-provider Communication, eHealth and mHealth, Social Media, Strategic Health Campaign, Internet Health Information

Min-Yen KAN
Computer Science

Research Interests:

Scholarly Document Processing, Digital Libraries

Atreyi KANKANHALLI
Information Systems and Analytics

Research Interests:

Online Communities, Digital Collaboration, Human-AI Collaboration, Digital Transformation and Innovation (AI in Healthcare, Open Innovation), Computational Social Science (Social Media Analysis, LLM-based Social Simulations)

Aditya KARANAM
Information Systems and Analytics

Research Interests:

Data Driven Product Design, Digital Platforms and Innovation, Complex Network Analysis, Natural Language Processing

Eric KERR
Tembusu College & Asia Research Institute

Research Interests:

Philosophy of Technology, Social Epistemology, Internet Studies, Science and Technology Studies

Ching Hua LEE
Physics

Research Interests:

Quantum Computing, Interacting Many-body Systems, Condensed Matter Physics, Complex Networks, Social Decision-making Models, Portfolio Optimization

Nala Huiying LEE
English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies

Research Interests:

Language Endangerment, Language Documentation, Language Vitality Assessment 

Jungup LEE
Social Work

Research Interests:

Human-AI interactions to tackle cyberbullying, Youth mental and digital well-being, Generative AI to prevent mental health stigma & suicide, E-counseling in social services, Online/offline social interactions mapping, Technology-based intervention programmes to promote youth aspiration, Mental health, Well-being

Justin LEE
Institute of Policy Studies

Research Interests:

Citizen Deliberation, Citizen Social Science, Open Collaboration, Community Development, Social Services  

Yi-Chieh LEE
Computer Science

Research Interests:

Human-computer Interaction, Social Computing, AI for Social Good, Human-centered AI 

Mengze LI
Department of Geography

Research Interests:

Atmospheric Composition, Greenhouse Gases, Air Pollutants, Carbon Cycle, Climate Change, Machine Learning, Data Integration, Atmospheric Modelling, Natural Ecosystems, Remote Sensing, Indoor Air Chemistry, Public Health

Beng Choo LIM
Japanese Studies

Research Interests:

Traditional Japanese Performance and Digitization, Using Digital Platforms for Performance Data

Alvin Eng Hui LIM
English, Linguistics & Theatre Studies

Research Interests:

Digital Archiving, Culture, Heritage, Digital Media and Religion   

Wee Chuan Eldin LIM
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

Research Interests:

Discrete Element Method for Modeling Human Crowd Behaviours 

Weiqiang LIN
Geography

Research Interests:

Digitalisation and Impacts on Work, Automation and Labour/Consumer Behaviours, Affect, Feelings and Human/Nonhuman Relations, Mobilities and Aeromobilities, Logistics and Circulation  

Adam LIU
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Research Interests:

Chinese Politics, Political Economy

Lili LIU
Information Systems and Analytics

Research Interests:

Deep Learning, Multi-modal Learning, Quantitative Research, Economics, Behavioral FinanceMachine Learning, Deep Reinforcement Learning, Computer Vision, Text Analysis, Transfer Learning

Tong LIU
Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy

Research Interests:

Environmental Economics, Development Economics, Health Economics, Chinese Economy 

Yao LU
Computer Science

Research Interests:

Multi-agent Systems, Behavior Modeling, Crowd Simulation, Procedure and Policy Research 

Nan LUO
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Research Interests:

Self-reported Health and Well-being, Health and Social Preferences, Health and Medical Decision Making

Wei LUO
Geography

Research Interests:

Applying GIS, Social Network, Machine Learning, AI to Address Issues Relevant to Public Health and International Trade and Supply Chain

Xiangzhong (Remi) LUO
Geography

Research Interests:

Interactions between Terrestrial Ecosystem Functions (e.g., Carbon Uptake, Evapotranspiration) and Environmental Changes (i.e., Climate Change, Land Use and Land Cover Changes) across Spatial and Temporal Scales, Impacts of Climate Extremes and Human Management Practices (e.g., Irrigation, Fertilization, Smallholder Farming) on Agricultural Systems in Southeast Asia. 

Martin MATTSSON
Department of Economics

Research Interests:

Development Economics, Political Economy, Public Economics 

Peter MILLICAN
Philosophy

Research Interests:

History of Philosophy (especially early modern), Theoretical Philosophy (including Epistemology, Philosophy of AI, Language, Mind, and Religion), Moral Philosophy (including Philosophy of Action and Behaviour), Digital Humanities (especially resource development and textual analysis), Computational models of behaviour (including agent-based and evolutionary models) 

Swapnil MISHRA
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health

Research Interests:

Popularity Prediction and Understanding, Renewal Processes, Online Information Diffusion, Stochastic Point Processes, Generative Deep Learning for Social Good

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