Academic Exercise Supervision
Important Information

Greetings, below is the set of procedures and deadlines that Marketing AE students should be aware of. Please familiarize yourself with these guidelines. If you are submitting your AE around April 2010, please take note of the following:

  1. You must submit the Marketing AE Student Registration Form by end of February 2009. This form would have been given to you during the briefing. Alternatively, you can download it.
  2. You are encouraged to approach and discuss with individual Marketing faculty members about potential AE supervision. This web page has been set up to facilitate this effort. Please scroll down to the RESEARCH AREAS section below for information that should help you in looking for a suitable AE supervisor. You have till end of March 2009 to confirm a supervisor in this manner.
  3. After this date, if for some reasons, you are unable to find a suitable supervisor, we will refer to the information provided in your Marketing AE Student Registration Form to find you one.
  4. You will be notified of the outcome before end of April 2009.

If you are submitting your AE around October 2010, the same set of procedures detailed above apply but the deadlines for the respective points should be:-

  1. Submit Marketing AE Student Registration Form by end of August 2009.
  2. You have till end of September 2009 to confirm a supervisor through your own accord.
  3. After end of September 2009, those without a supervisor will be assigned one using your registration form as a guide.
  4. You will be notified of the outcome before end of October 2009.

For those who would like to view past Marketing AEs, please click here. Please note that with immediate effect, the AE library is maintained by the Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library and you can borrow them from the Library

Please be informed that the AE Intention Form and the Proposal Form have to be submitted to the Dean's Office accordingly. Please check for the deadline submission date on the notice board.

 

Research Areas

This section contains the Marketing faculty members research areas and their prerequisites for potential AE students. It also indicates the number of AE students and topics that each member is currently supervising. This information should allow you to make a more informed decision regarding the selection of potential AE supervisor.

ANG Swee Hoon
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Advertising Must have taken or taking Consumer Behavior and Advanced Marketing. Must also be prepared to work independently.
Consumer Behavior
Cross-cultural marketing issues
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

CHENG Peng Sim
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Cross-Cultural Consumer Research  
Purchase Behaviour Of Families And Children  
Affective Influences On Consumer Behaviour  
Naturalistic Observations And Research  
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

CHONG Juin Kuan
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Product Assortment Marketing Research and Product Management
Product Variety  
Product Innovation Diffusion  
Choice Modeling  
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

KRISHNAN Trichy
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
New Product Introduction  
Diffusion  
Game Theory  
Channel and Pricing  
Topics such as segmentation, positioning and competition  
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    

 

LAU Geok Theng
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Business Marketing Completed Business Research course
Purchasing Management  
Supply Chain Management  
Buyer-Seller Relationships  
Relationship Marketing  
Salesforce Management in the Industrial Market  
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

LEE Khai Sheang
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Game theoretic modeling of marketing issues

Must have taken one of the following:-

Marketing Science; Strategic Marketing; Marketing Strategy or Game Theory & Strategic Analysis

Empirical Test of Game Theoretic Predictions
Competitive Marketing Strategy
Channel Strategy  
Industrial Marketing Strategy  
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

LEE Yih Hwai
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Consumer Information Processing Theories  
Advertising Theories Must have taken Consumer Behavior

Linguistics Effects on Consumer Behavior

Must have taken Consumer Behavior (plus read and write Chinese well)
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

LEONG Siew Meng
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Consumer Behavior Good quantitative skills, can work independently, and can write well
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

LIM Wei Shi
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Game-theoretic modeling of marketing issues Must have taken either Game Theory & Strategic

 

Analysis or Strategic Marketing or Marketing Science. Must have strong quantitative and analytical skills.
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
Ho Toon Peng, Darren Gender Effects In Common Value Auctions: Individual vs. Group Behaviour Oct 2007
Past AE Topics    

 

RAJIV Surendra
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Analysis of competitive strategies  
Analysis of consumer panel data  
Structural econometric modeling  

Competitive dynamics in high-technology markets

 
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    

 

SHAMDASANI Prem
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Relationship Marketing  
Competitive Marketing Strategy  
Cross-Cultural Buyer Behaviour  
Environmental Marketing  
Retail Marketing Strategy  

Branding ((B-2-C and B-2-B)

 
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    

 

TAMBYAH Siok Kuan
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Topics related to consumption and identity (e.g. ethnicity, gender) I prefer students who have taken a Consumer Behavior class with me. S/he should speak and write well, and have an interest in qualitative research methods (i.e., interviews).
Topics related to consumption and community (e.g. subcultures of consumption)

Topics related to cross-cultural movements of people (e.g. immigrants, transnationals)

 
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

TAN Soo Jiuan
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
International Market Entry Strategies Students should write well, be more quantitatively
Parallel Importing inclined and be able to work independently.
Consumer Values And Lifestyles Preferably, he/she should have taken Product Management Course
Game-Theoretic Applications In Marketing

Global Product Management

 
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

WIRTZ Jochen
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Customer Satisfaction Must have taken Services Marketing and Consumer Behavior. Needs to have good conceptual, analytical and writing skills.
Customer Feedback Systems
Service Guarantees

Yield Management

 
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
None    
Past AE Topics    

 

YEUNG Catherine
Research Areas Prerequisites (if any)
Affect and Consumer Judgments  
Customer Feedback Systems  
Anxiety and Product Judgements  

Consumer Information Processing

 
Current Student (s) AE Topic AE Submission Date
Ng Sim Yi To be confirmed October 2007
Past AE Topics