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 2026

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Modelling nature? The digital twinning and untwinning of urban farms, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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A dynamic inspection and replacement policy for systems subject to degradation and periodic shocks, Jiawen HU and Qiuzhuang SUN

Robust data-driven design of a smart cardiac arrest response system, Weiliang LIU, Qiuzhuang SUN, Loon Ching TANG, and Zhisheng. YE

Rubber imperialism Britain, the United States, and the Malayan rubber industry, ca. 1920-57, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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The affective economy of toxic atmospheres: Sensory governance, ecological intelligences and the performative politics of urban mosquito management, Orlando WOODS and Creighton CONNOLLY

Pentecostalism in Sri Lanka: Proselytization, Buddhist Nationalism and the Contested Ethics of Engagement, Orlando WOODS and Barnabas MAH

Submissions from 2025

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Global Cooling Watch 2025, Omar Abdelaziz, Ray GLUCKMAN, Ian HAMILTON, Radhika KHOSLA, and Lily RIAHI

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Bridging policy and grassroots action with technology: A framework for civic engagement in environmental sustainability, Mikhail Ola ADISA, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Shola OYEDEJI, Ifeoma ADAJI, and Jari PORRAS

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Natural capital credit risk assessment in agricultural lending: An approach based on the Natural Capital Protocol, Francisco ASCUI and Theodor Florian COJOIANU

The citizen and the smart city: A global comparison of institutional logics, Tim BUNNELL; Zachary SPICER; Byron MILLER; Teresa ABBRUZZESE; Paolo CARDULLO; I-Chun Catherine CHANG; Greig CHARNOCK; Ming-Kuang CHUNG; Kwon HEO; Sue-Ching JOU; Andrew KARVONEN; Olga KORDAS; Kong, Lily; Ramon RIBERA-FUMAZ; Orlando WOODS; HaeRan SHIN; and Orlando WOODS

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Assembling diasporic faith amidst China’s rise: (De)territorialization and the multi-scalar production of the Guangze Zunwang cult in the Chinese diaspora, Ningning CHEN and Orlando WOODS

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Park cool island modifications to assess radiative cooling of a tropical urban park, Graces N. Y. CHING, Sin Kang YIK, Su Li HENG, Beatrice H. HO, Peter J. CRANK, Moshe Eliezer MANDELMILCH, Xiang Tian HO, and Winston T. L. CHOW

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On the origin of green finance policies, Theodor Florian COJOIANU, D. French, Andrea G. F. Hoepner, Sheenan L., and Anh Vu

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Entangled exclusions: Borders, frontiers and urban geopolitics from northeast India, Prerona DAS, Gaurav MITTAL, and Jasnea SARMA

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Navigating AI-nature frictions: Autonomous vehicle testing and nature-based constraints, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Right-sizing the smart city in Southeast Asia, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Seeing beyond the state: Private sector-led smart city governance in BSD City, Indonesia, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Smart cities beyond methodological cityism: Foregrounding developmentalism, scalar flexing and the rebranding of the 'urban', Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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What are the limits to smart innovation? The digital underground initiative and new frontiers of “smartness” in Singapore, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Environment and natural disasters, Jack GREATREX

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Catchwater colonialism: Reshaping Hong Kong’s hydrology, infrastructure, metabolism and landscape, 1937–1968, Jack GREATREX and Florence MOK

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How do you fix knowledge in place? Digital nomads and infrastructural stickiness, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Prerona DAS, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

Forging more-than-Indian citizenship pathways: (Inter)national education, religious values, and new frontier of multicultural belonging in Singapore, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Home and religion, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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Miserly thinking: Understanding the factors shaping public support towards Project Wolbachia in Singapore, Shirley S. HO, Agnes S. F. CHUAH, Fiona J. W. GOH, Nova Mengxia HUANG, Mengxue QU, Hye Kyung KIM, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Public health messaging about dengue on Facebook in Singapore during the COVID-19 pandemic: Content analysis, Shirley S. HO, Mengxue OU, Nova Mengxia HUANG, Agnes S.F. CHUAH, Vanessa S. HO, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Public support for and reactive behavior toward technological risk interventions: An extension of secondary risk theory, Hye Kyung KIM, Rui GU, Fiona GOH, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Shirley S. HO

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Navigating “I” and “we”: Coupled identity and spousal influence in the physical activity of older adults., Sapphire H. LIN, Rich LING, and Sonny ROSENTHAL

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Decarbonising digital infrastructure and urban sustainability in the case of data centres, Felicia H. M. LIU, Karen P. Y. LAI, Bertrand SEAH, and Winston T. L. CHOW

Online robust degradation analysis with measurement outlier, Xingchen LIU, Carman K. M. LEE, Jingyuan HUANG, and Qiuzhuang SUN

More concerns about atmospheric methane removal efforts, Joshua LUCZAK

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Rethinking Singer: Toward a valid argument for helping the global poor, Joshua LUCZAK

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Sensor lag adjustments on a mobile meteorological cart in tropical environments: A case study from an Urban Park in Singapore, Moshe Eliezer MANDELMILCH, Sin Kang YIK, Beatrice H. HO, Graces N. Y. CHING, Peter J. CRANK, and Winston T. L. CHOW

Confronting the smart city governance challenge, Luca MORA and et. al

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Emulating Empire: Washington’s preoccupation with British counterinsurgency in Malaya and U.S. commitment to Vietnam, Wen-Qing NGOEI

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On/ in the ground with Vietnamese communists: The Cu Chi Tunnels in the classroom, Wen-Qing NGOEI

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Book review: The Malayan Emergency: Revolution and Counterinsurgency at the End of Empire by Karl Hach, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing) NGOEI

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Nationalism and Anglo-American Neo-colonialism in Southeast Asia, 1945-1965, Wen-Qing (WEI Wenqing) NGOEI

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A summoned life: Vocation in the Analects, Teng-kuan NG

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Full circle: Historiography, missiology, and theology in Lin Yutang’s From Pagan to Christian, Teng-kuan NG

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Review of Victor Fan, “Cinema illuminating reality: Media philosophy through Buddhism”, Teng-kuan NG

Unlocking aural skills through improvisation, Patrick OLSEN

Improvising for the test: Influences of graded music examinations on the teaching and learning of improvisation within studio lessons, Patrick (olsen P.) OLSEN

A ‘City in Nature’ and its porcine interlopers: Confronting the edges of urban ecological order, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

Replumbing the City: Water management as climate adaptation in Los Angeles, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE

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Political ecologies of storage for the 21st century, Sarah Priscilla RANDLE and Matthew ARCHER

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Wild hogs in the water: Contested infrastructural ecologies of reservoir storage in texas, Sayd RANDLE

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Novice instructors can make satisfying video lectures by using familiar techniques: A repeated-measures test of video lecture formats and learner satisfaction theory, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Stuart BRAIMAN, and Dawn Z. Y. POH

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Direct and indirect experiences, risk perceptions, and vaccine booster intention: A mediation study in Singapore using secondary risk theory, Sonny ROSENTHAL, Agnes S. F. CHUAH, Hye Kyung KIM, and Shirley S. HO

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An eye-tracking study of gaze guidance and visual integration effects on attention, learning, and instructor social presence, Sonny ROSENTHAL, John KOMAR, and Vanessa Simin HO

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Framerate sensitivity and cinemagoing explain the soap opera effect of films: A preregistered study of undergraduate students in Singapore., Sonny ROSENTHAL and Benjamin J. LI

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Cities and climate change, Matthias ROTH, Enric AGUILAR, and Winston T. L. CHOW

Conditional inclusion in the sensory contact zone: coexisting with desis in Singapore’s gurdwaras, Siew Ying SHEE and Orlando WOODS

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Optimal abort policy for mission-critical systems under imperfect condition monitoring, Qiuzhuang SUN, Jiawen HU, and Zhi-Sheng YE

Cracks, Justin Kh TSE

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The miseducation of model minorities: The gospel of ‘schoolvation’ and the myth of the schooled society, Justin Kh TSE

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Awareness, knowledge, and motivations about lifespan, healthspan, and Healthy Longevity Medicine in the general population: The HEalthy LOngevity (HELO) conceptual framework, Belinda WANG, Anna SZUCS, Elena SANDALOVA, E. J. HORBERG, Paul A. O'Keefe, Louis ISLAND, Hans J. MEIJ, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Andrea B. MAIER

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Public views towards lifespan, healthspan, and healthy longevity medicine in Singapore: A qualitative study from the HEalthy LOngevity (HELO) initiatives, Belinda WANG, Anna SZUCS, Elena SANDALOVA, Zhi Meng LIM, E. J. Horberg, Paul A. O’Keefe, Louis ISLAND, Sonny ROSENTHAL, and Andrea B. MAIER

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A comparison of comparisons: Evidence from an international comparative study of 'smart cities', Kevin WARD, Teresa ABBRUZZESE, Tim BUNNELL, Paolo CARDULLO, I-Chun Catherine CHANG, Byron MILLER, Ramon RIBERA-FUMAZ, Haeran SHIN, Zachary SPICER, Orlando WOODS, and Orlando WOODS

The transcendent patterning of medical pluralism: Religion and medical practices among Miao migrants in China, Shixian WEN, Orlando WOODS, and Quan GAO

Imperial weather : Meteorology, science, and the environment in colonial Malaya, Fiona WILLIAMSON

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Infrastructural splintering along the BRI: Catholic political ecologies and the fractious futures of Sri Lanka’s littoral spaces, Orlando WOODS

The experiential value of gambling in f2p gamespaces, Orlando WOODS

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Island platforms and the hyper-terrestrialisation of Singapore's smart city-state, Orlando WOODS, Tim BUNNELL, and Lily KONG

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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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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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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

Educating Indians, learning ‘Indianness’: Navigating pluralistic educational infrastructures in diasporic Singapore, Emma Alexandra GRIMLEY, Orlando WOODS, and Lily KONG

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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