Established in 2022, the College of Integrative Studies is SMU’s seventh School and plays a pivotal role in helping students traverse the disciplinary areas associated with the other SMU Schools – Accountancy, Business, Economics, Computing, Law and Social Sciences. The CIS is different in that it emphasises the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across disciplines to derive new solutions in areas related to SMU’s Strategic Priorities. Its faculty members research on topics such as Computer Science, Economics, Environmental History, Geography, Law, and Urban Climate, amongst others. The College seeks to cultivate an environment conducive to intellectual exploration across academic disciplines and to bring their distinct disciplinary perspectives together to address modern challenges in today’s complex world.

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Submissions from 2025

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Remaking the smart city through the COVID-19 pandemic: Seoul, Singapore, Taipei, Orlando WOODS, I-Chun Catherine CHANG, and Haeran SHIN

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Sedimented surveillance in Southeast Asia's "smart" city-state: The case of Singapore, Orlando WOODS, Al LIM, and Lily KONG

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Casual killing in the home: Ecological citizenship and the micro-geopolitics of mosquito cohabitation, Orlando WOODS and Junxi QIAN

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Ecological responsibility in the city: The surfaces and volumes of urban mosquito management, Orlando WOODS and Sayd RANDLE

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A debt to whom? The nature questions in Sino‑Sri Lankan development narratives, Orlando WOODS, Kanchana RUWANPURA, Loritta CHAN, and Barnabas MAH

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China's global leadership aspirations and domestic support for climate policy, Chen XIANG and Terry Van GEVELT

Physics-enhanced NMF toward anomaly detection in rotating mechanical systems, Bingxin YAN, Xiaobing MA, Qiuzhuang SUN, and Lijuan SHEN

A physical-statistical framework on complex mechanical system fault isolation, Bingxin YAN, Qiuzhuang SUN, Lijuan SHEN, and Xiaobing MA

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On modeling of multiplicative bias factor for multivariate degradation data, Bingxin YAN, Qiuzhuang SUN, and Zhisheng YE

Robust generator maintenance schedule for frequency-secure power systems, Yang YANG, Qiuzhuang SUN, Jimmy Chih-Hsien PENG, Loon Ching TANG, and Zhisheng YE

Deep unsupervised subdomain adaptation network for intelligent fault diagnosis: From simulated domain to physical domain, Zhijie ZHANG, Yanyang ZI, Mingquan ZHANG, Zhen SHI, and Qiuzhuang SUN

Submissions from 2024

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Impact of rainfall on air temperature, humidity and thermal comfort in tropical urban parks, Juan A. ACERO, Philip Carl KESTEL, Hieu T. DANG, and Leslie K. NORFORD

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A comparison of four approaches to modeling information insufficiency, Pengya AI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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The model of norm-regulated responsibility for proenvironmental behavior in the context of littering prevention, Pengya AI and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Special issues in support of evidence-based policy making in sustainable banking and finance, Lucia ALESSI, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Declan FRENCH, and Andreas G. F. HOEPNER

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Accounting for the EU Green Taxonomy: Exploring its concept, data and analytics, Lucia Alessi, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. Hoepner, and Giovanna Michelon

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Toward equitable micromobility: Lessons from Austin e-scooter sharing program, Shunhua BAI and Junfeng JIAO

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Assessing impact of urban densification on outdoor microclimate and thermal comfort using ENVI-met simulations for Combined Spatial-Climatic Design (CSCD) approach, Shreya BANERJEE, Rachel X.Y. PEK, Sin Kang YIK, Graces N. CHING, Xiang Tian HO, Dzyuban Yuliya, Peter J. CRANK, Juan A. ACERO, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Urban heat and within-city residential sorting, Stefan BORSKY, Eric FESSELMEYER, and Lennart VOGELSAND

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Measurement of regional electric vehicle adoption using multiagent deep reinforcement learning, Seung Jun CHOI and Junfeng JIAO

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Uncovering electric vehicle ownership disparities using K-means clustering analysis: A case study of Austin, Texas, Seung Jun CHOI and Junfeng JIAO

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Reducing urban overheating risks through climate-resilient development in the warming tropics, Winston T. L. CHOW

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Human sensors in the city of super apps: Mobilizing people as infrastructure for smart city development in Jakarta, Indonesia, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Heat and observed economic activity in the rich urban tropics, Eric FESSELMEYER, Haoming. LIU, Alberto. SALVO, and Rhita P B. SIMORANGKIR

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Using simulations of future extreme weather events to escape the resilience trap: Experimental evidence from Hong Kong, Terry Van GEVELT, J. YANG, K. N. CHAN, L. LI, Fiona WILLIAMSON, B. G. McAdoo, and A. D. SWITZER

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Forests are chill: The interplay between thermal comfort and mental wellbeing, Loïc GILLEROT, Kevin ROZARIO, Pieter DE FRENNE, Rachel OH, Quentin PONETTE, Aletta BONN, Winston T. L. CHOW, Douglas GODBOLD, Matthias STEINPARZAER, Daniela HALUZA, Dries LANDUYT, Bart MUYS, and Kris VERHEYEN

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Here, there, and elsewhere: Ethnicity, identity, and global orientation at an Indian international school in Singapore, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

"The Catholic Church has a big structure": Social movement activists and the role of local Catholic churches in Hong Kong and Ukraine within the civil societies, Halyna HERASYM and Justin Kh TSE

Crisis and emergency risk communication and emotional appeals in COVID-19 public health messaging: Quantitative content analysis, Shirley S. Ho, CHUAH, Agnes S. F., Sonny ROSENTHAL, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Hye Kyung KIM, and Shannon S. H. Soh

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Digital transformation: Two sides of a coin, Tze K KOH

Handbook of the geographies of religion, Lily KONG, Orlando WOODS, and Justin Kh TSE

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Trust: The feature that vending machines and ATMs share, but SimplyGo lacks, Sun Sun LIM

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Deploying chatbots to build students' critical thinking skills: Leveraging generative AI effectively and purposefully in higher education, Sun Sun LIM and Tamas MAKANY

Digital parenting burdens in China: Online homework, parent chats and punch-in culture, Sun Sun LIM and Yang WANG

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Social media and performative parenting, Sun Sun LIM and Yang WANG

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Opening the black box of fitness tracking: Understanding the mechanisms of feedback in motivating physical activity among older Singaporeans, Sapphire H. LIN, Rich LING, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Growing natural connections: The effects of modality and type of nature on connectedness to nature, Audria Huixuan LOW, Carynn Yan Min CHUNG, Irene Jia Yi CHEONG, Charmaine Xin Yu LOKE, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Multiethnic elites and the management of tropical heat in colonial Malaya, circa 1870s-1930s, Claire LOWRIE, Nicole TARULEVICZ, Fiona WILLIAMSON, and Charmaine H. LAM

Current state of geoengineering, Joshua LUCZAK

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Integration of urban climate research within the global climate change discourse, Negin Nazarian, Benjamin Bechtel, Gerald Mills, Melissa Anne Hart, Ariane Middel, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Gaby S. Langendijk, Lei Zhao, Andy Pitman, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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Of light and shadows: Buddhism, cinema, and the question of diffused religion in modern China, Teng-kuan NG

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Spatial trajectories, theories, and topoi in the study of religion and film, Teng-kuan NG

Designing a new aural skills curriculum for a higher education popular music programme, Patrick OLSEN

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Testing the capability of AI art tools for urban design, Connor PHILLIPS, Junfeng JIAO, and Emmalee CLUBB

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Big infrastructure and/as flexibility: The Sites Reservoir story, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE and David LINVILLE

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Geographies of storage, Sayd RANDLE

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Does the use of media and other information sources cause the perceived experience of climate change or is it the other way around?, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Pengya AI

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Media use, interpersonal communication, and personal relevance as external and internal representations of climate change, Sonny ROSENTHAL and Pengya AI

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Spatio-temporal patterns of heat index and heat-related Emergency Medical Services (EMS), Kijin SEONG, Junfeng JIAO, Akhil MANDALAPU, and Dev NIYOGI

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Rethinking the inclusionary potential of religious institutions: The case of gurdwaras in Singapore, Siew Ying SHEE and Orlando WOODS

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Platform infrastructures: Mobilizing passengers, immobilizing civic imaginations?, Andrew STOKOLS

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Discontent in the world city of Singapore, Gordon TAN, Jessie P. H. POON, and Orlando WOODS

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What is beyond measurement for social cohesion?, Qian Hui Tricia TOK, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Chinatown, part five? ‘Capitalism with Asian values’ in Vancouver: Commentary on Elvin Wyly’s ‘Regarding the pain of (Indigenous) others, Justin Kh TSE

Christian geographers, Christian geographies, Justin Kh TSE

Conclusion: Local Hong Kong religion after 2020. Special Forum on Diffusion, Polyphony, and Diversity: Religion, Politics, and Identity in Hong Kong since 2014, Justin Kh TSE

Reflections on "Grounded theologies’ : ‘Religion’ and the ‘secular’ in human geography," by Justin Tse, Justin Kh TSE

Sheets of scattered sand : Cantonese protestants and the secular dream of the Pacific Rim, Justin Kh TSE

The postsecular and the pedagogical in political theologies in Sinophone communities, Justin Kh TSE

Conclusion: Geographies of Religion as Integrative Study, Justin Kh TSE, Lily KONG, and Orlando WOODS

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Vertical expansion in the making: Planning against deindustrialization by promoting "Industry's Going Upstairs" in Shenzhen, Qianqian WEI and Yong ZHANG

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Disasters and history: The vulnerability and resilience of past societies by Bas van Bavel, et al, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Gamified bodies and the illusory meaning of muscle, Orlando WOODS

Reflections on “Geography and Religions”, Orlando WOODS

Reflections on “Veiled meanings : Young British Muslim women and the negotiation of differences”, Orlando WOODS

The community economics shaping alternative spaces of Islamic futurity in Singapore, Orlando WOODS

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Topological spaces of embodied becoming: Queens, queerness and (infra)structural subterfuge in Singapore, Orlando WOODS

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Territorialising the cloud or clouding the territory? Volumetric vulnerabilities and the militarised conjunctures of Singapore's smart city-state, Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily KONG

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The irreducible otherness of desi and desire in Singapore’s gurdwaras: Moral boundary-making in the shadows of a multicultural society, Orlando WOODS and Lily KONG

The end of the beginning for the geographies of religion?, Orlando WOODS, Lily KONG, and Justin Kh TSE

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The sacred dimensions of the BRI's infrastructural commons, Orlando WOODS and David A. PALMER

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The partnership question as a scale question: Extending the theorization of entrepreneurial urbanism in China, Yong ZHANG

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The scale question as an urban question: The making of homo urbanicus amid state entrepreneurialism, Yong ZHANG

Submissions from 2023

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Bike-sharing station usage and the surrounding built environments in major Texas cities, Louis G. ALCORN and Junfeng JIAO

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Encountering Berlant part 1: Concepts otherwise, Ben ANDERSON, Stuart AITKEN, Jana BACEVIC, Felicity CALLARD, Kwang Dae (Mitsy) CHUNG, Kathryn S. COLEMAN, Robert F. HAYDEN, Sarah HEALY, Rita L. IRWIN, and Justin TSE

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Durations of dockless e-scooter trips before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Austin, TX: an analysis using hazard-based duration models, Amin AZIMIAN and Junfeng JIAO

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Rental housing spot markets: how online information exchanges can supplement transacted-rents data, Geoff BOEING, Jake WEGMANN, and Junfeng JIAO

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Competition and innovation in the financial sector: Evidence from the rise of FinTech start-ups, Doina CARAGEA, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Mihai DOBRI, Andreas HOEPNER, Oana PEIA, and Davide ROMELLI

Laozi qian shuo 老子淺說, Alan Kam Leung CHAN

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Disrupting the grid: Encountering fire and smoke through energy infrastuctures, Deepti CHATTI and Sayd RANDLE

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What are the relationships between public transit and gentrification progress? an empirical study in the New York-Northern New Jersey-Long Island areas, Yefu CHEN, Hao XI, and Junfeng JIAO

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Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance: Evidence on the Paris alignment of members’ disclosure, proxy voting, and fossil fuel bond investing, L. CHIN, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, D. MORENO, R. PATIL, and Anh VU

Working with the IPCC: A Singapore boy’s view of climate change, Winston T. L. CHOW

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The city never sleeps: But when will investment banks wake up to the climate crisis?, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andrea G. F. Hoepner, Fabiola I. Schneider, Michael Urban, Anh Vu, and Dariusz Wojcik

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Are cities venturing green? A global analysis of the impact of green entrepreneurship on city air pollution, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, Xi HU, Moustafa RAMADAN, Paolo VENERI, and Dariusz WÓJCIK

Net-Zero Asset Owner Alliance climate voting transparency and benchmarking, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, Andreas G. F. HOEPNER, Yanan LIN, Kate VAN DER MERVE, and Anh VU

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Data is the new gold: A Singapore perspective on the duty of care concerning a dataset’s role in contributing to bias and AI hallucinations, Daniel SEAH

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Within-development density and housing prices in Singapore, Eric FESSELMEYER, Haoming LIU, and Louisa POCO

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Squeezed out by the market, seeking strength in the network: Makeshift temples and the spatio-affective logics of survival in Singapore, Quan GAO, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Using virtual simulations of future extreme weather events to communicate climate change risk, Terry Van GEVELT, Brian G. MCADOO, Jie YANG, Linlin LI, Fiona WILLIAMSON, Alex SCOLLAY, Aileen LAM, Kwan Nok CHAN, and Adam D. SWITZER

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Vulnerability to climatic and environmental disaster and change in the Indian Ocean World, Philip GOODING, Fiona WILLIAMSON, and Julie BABIN

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“Back to the jungle”: Investigating rats, grass, scrub typhus, and plantations in Malaya, 1924–1974, Jack GREATREX

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Swarming Infrastructures, Jack GREATREX

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Green stormwater infrastructure: A critical review of the barriers and solutions to widespread implementation, Bardia HEIDARI, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE, Dean MINCHILLO, and Fouad H. JABER

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Revisiting Tocqueville's American Woman, Christine Dunn HENDERSON

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Forecasting traffic speed during daytime from Google Street View images using deep learning, Junfeng JIAO and Huihai WANG

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Hawker culture and its infrastructure: Experiences and contestations in everyday life, Lily Kong and Aidan Wong

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Re-evaluating natural intelligence in the face of ChatGPT, Elvin T. LIM and Tze K KOH

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Motivating physical activity with fitness tracking and the interpersonal context, Sapphire H. LIN, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Rich LING

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Ten years as boundary object: The search for identity and belonging as 'Hongkongers', John LOWE, ESPENA Darlene Machell, and George WONG