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Recipients of 2013 External Grants

Ministry of Education Tier 2 Grants

Su Liangjun
Professor of Economics
School of Economics
Jin Sainan
Associate Professor of Economics
School of Economics

 

Project Title : Automated Inference in Large Dimensional Panel Data Models via Shrinkage
About the Project : Cross section dependence and unobserved heterogeneity are two important issues in large dimensional panel data models where both the cross section and time dimensions are large.
The project seeks to address both issues in a uniform way via the use of shrinkage techniques. The methodology to be developed can be applied to study various issues in macroeconomics (e.g. economic growth and convergence), empirical finance (e.g. asset pricing), microeconomics (e.g. group or subsample studies of stability), and so on.
Project Duration : July 2013 to June 2016

 

Forrest Zhang
Associate Professor of Sociology
School of Social Sciences
John Donaldson
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Social Sciences

 

Project Title : The Transformation of Rural China: Central Policies and Local Innovations
About the Project : This research project aims to examine the most recent wave of social, economic and political changes that are sweeping through rural China.
Focusing on the interactions between national policies and local forces and contexts that create adaptations, distortions and innovations of these policies, this three-year project will investigate new developments in agricultural modernisation, property reform and social welfare programmes.
Project Duration : July 2013 to June 2016
Collaborators : James Tang, Dean and Professor of Political Science, School of Social Sciences
Ann Florini, Professor of Public Policy, School of Social Sciences

 

Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART)

Cheng Shih-Fen
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
School of Information Systems
Lau Hoong Chuin
Associate Professor of Information Systems
School of Information Systems

 

Project Title : Coordinating Automated Para-Transit Service Operations
About the Project : The theme of this project is mobility on demand, with special focus on urban shared-ride services in various settings (e.g. airport shuttle, last-mile service). Our primary research interest is in designing theoretically sound and practically implementable mechanisms that allow costs to be distributed fairly when rides are shared.
Project Duration : February to December 2013
MIT Principal
Investigator
: Amedeo R. Odoni, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

 

MERLION Project

David Lo
Assistant Professor of Information Systems
School of Information Systems

 

Project Title : Improving Clone Detection for Systems Software
About the Project : Code clones, which are similar/equivalent code fragments in various locations of a software system, can cause software maintenance problems and increase software costs. We investigate strategies for more effective code clone identification in large scale system software.
Project Duration : January 2013 to December 2014
Remarks : The project is co-funded by The Institut Français de Singapour.