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External Research Grants

CY 2020
SGX Quarterly Reporting Post Implementation Review
Principal Investigator: Wang Jiwei
School of Accountancy
Funding Source: Singapore Exchange Limited (SGX)
Project Synopsis: 

On 7 February 2020, SGX moved away from the quarterly reporting (QR) requirement for issuers with market capitalization of more than S$75 million and replaced it with a risk-based approach. Specifically, only issuers that are deemed risky (based on the criteria outlined by SGX) are required to perform quarterly reporting. Other issuers are required to only perform semi-annual reporting, but they are encouraged to voluntarily provide business updates or financial statements. Through this project, we will study the consequences of this new requirement from the perspectives of issuers, investors, and other stakeholders.

CY 2020
Constraint Solving based on Optimisation for Software Analysis
Principal Investigator: Sun Jun
School of Computing and Information Systems
Funding Source: Huawei International Pte Ltd
Project Synopsis: 

Software developers often make use of a method called satisfiability modulo theories (SMT) for program testing, analysis and verification. Unfortunately, SMT has its limitations as it is ineffective for large software that are usually more complicated. As such, the collaborative project with Huawei, aims to develop new constraint solving techniques based on optimization to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of testing and formal verification of software, so that it can be used on large software as well.

CY 2020
MOF-CREA Project on Family Transfers
Principal Investigator: Bryce Hool
School of Economics
Funding Source: Ministry of Finance (MOF)
Project Synopsis: 

This project seeks to understand the scale and profile of family transfers to and from ageing Singaporeans. Specifically, the availability and scale of family financial transfers across generations, socioeconomic groups, family size, communities and individual factors will be studied through analysis of relevant data in the Singapore Life Panel®.

CY 2020
Preparing Accountants of the Future: Evaluating a Programme in Accounting Data & Analytics
Principal Investigator: Seow Poh Sun
School of Accountancy
Funding Source: Ministry of Education's Tertiary Education Research Fund
Project Synopsis: 

This proposal aims to evaluate the efficacy of the Accounting Data & Analytics (AD&A) second major programme offered by the School of Accountancy (SOA) at Singapore Management University (SMU). The AD&A second major programme aims to provide students with skillsets in data and analytics that can be readily applied in the accounting context. Specifically, this proposal seeks to examine (i) the extent to which the AD&A second major programme equip students with key skills and competencies expected in the future accounting workplace, (ii) the extent of the AD&A second major programme achieving its intended learning outcomes and (iii) how the insights gained from this study would impact the design of future programmes (both within and outside of accounting) in data and analytics given the disruption caused by emerging technologies.

CY 2020
Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative
Principal Investigator: Aurelio Gurrea Martinez
Yong Pung How School of Law
Funding Source: Ministry of Law
Project Synopsis: 

Funded by the Ministry of Law, this initiative, known as the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative, will be housed under the SMU Centre for Cross-Border Commercial Law in Asia, and it seeks to demonstrate international thought leadership on restructuring and insolvency.

CY 2020
Dynamic and Holistic Monitoring of the Well-Being of the Older Singaporean Population
Principal Investigator: Paulin Tay Straughan
School of Social Sciences
Funding Source: Ministry of Education’s Academic Research Fund Tier 3
Project Synopsis: 

This multidisciplinary research project seeks to define and measure a holistic construct of well-being, and identify the factors that impact Singaporeans’ well-being as they progress through the later phases of their life. The research defines well-being as having four primary domains, which are interlinked: social, economic, mental and physical well-being. Leveraging on the Singapore Life Panel®, the research aims to document and better understand which domains of well-being dominate under specific conditions and at specific phases of ageing. This understanding will help in the formulation of targeted interventions that promotes well-being among older adults and thereby advancing successful ageing in the community.

CY 2020
K-EMERGE: Knowledge Extraction, Modelling, and Explainable Reasoning for General Expertise
Principal Investigator: Tan Ah Hwee (Project-level)
School of Computing and Information Systems
Funding Source: Agency for Science, Technology and Research's Advanced Material and Engineering Programmatic Fund
Project Synopsis: 

The K-EMERGE research programme, funded by the RIE2020 Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering Programmatic Grant, proposes a knowledge-based AI approach, complemented by advances in deep-learning NLP methods, to address the need for AI systems that are able to perform deep inference for expert-level diagnosis, explanation, instruction, and decision aiding in the context of complex physical systems. As part of the K-EMERGE programme, this project undertaken by SMU aims to develop computational models and technologies for representation, modelling and learning of domain knowledge extracted from text-based technical documents.

CY 2020
Advance Care Planning – Awareness among Singaporeans aged 55-75 years
Principal Investigator: Bryce Hool
School of Economics
Funding Source: Agency for Integrated Care
Project Synopsis: 

This project aims to leverage the Singapore Life Panel® to study older Singaporeans’ awareness and interest of the Advance Care Planning (ACP). Specifically, the project will examine the various sources of information, experience with ACP, as well as intention to officially document their advance care plans in the future.

CY 2020
International Judicial Training as Diplomacy and Justice: Quantitative and Qualitative Evidence
Principal Investigator: Maartje De Visser
Yong Pung How School of Law
Funding Source: Singapore Judicial College's Empirical Judicial Research Grant
Project Synopsis: 

This research project investigates how transnational judicial training can benefit participating judges and judicial officers. It will also inquire whether and how the delivery of such training to foreign participants can enhance the reputation of the host institution and the host country’s legal system. The research findings will contribute to what we know about incentives to organise or partake in transnational judicial interactions, while also broadening our understanding of the conditions under which transnational judicial education is a promising modality for pursuing such interactions.

CY 2020
BeyondTravel: a Multimodal Travel Records Analytics Framework
Principal Investigator: Zheng Baihua
School of Computing and Information Systems
Funding Source: Ministry of Education’s Academic Research Fund Tier 2
Project Synopsis: 

Through usage of city-scale commuting data (e.g., public transport records captured by smart card EZLink) to perform multimodal data analysis, this project seeks to answer following questions:

  • Question 1: when and where do people commute (related to trip prediction)
  • Question 2: how they commute (related to recovery of the exact routes taken by commuters inside the MRT network)
  • Question 3: why they commute (related to inference of trip purposes)