Digital Transformation

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Ph.D., Stockholm School of Economics, 2019
• MA in Quantitative Economics and Finance, University of St. Gallen, 2014
• MSc in Economics, Stockholm School of Economics, 2014
• BSc in Economics, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, 2011

Hye Sun Chang joined SMU in 2015. She earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in Accountancy from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and B.S. in Business Administration from Yonsei University (Seoul, Korea). Her research interests lie in capital market research topics, including earnings quality, analyst forecasts, and financial derivatives. Also, her teaching interests include financial accounting and reporting.

Yin Wang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Accounting and Co-Director of MSc in Accounting (Data & Analytics) at the Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Accountancy (SOA). He earned his PhD in Management Science (Accounting) from HEC Paris, under the doctoral school of the University of Paris-Saclay, and was a Visiting PhD Research Scholar at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business.

Colm Fox is an Associate Professor of Political Science at SMU. He studies elections, ethnic politics, media, social movements and protest in Southeast Asia. His work has been published in international peer-reviewed journals such as Political Communication, Comparative Political Studies, Journalism Studies and Democratization. His monograph ‘Bonding, Bridging, and Bypassing: Understanding Ethnic Politics in Diverse Societies’ has recently been published by Oxford University Press.

Fan, Haoqing Grace joined SMU in 2020. She obtained her PhD in Accounting at INSEAD, MPAcc degree at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Bachelor's degree in Accounting at Sun Yat-Sen University. Her research interests include the role of disclosure and accounting regulation in the public sector, pension accounting, and accounting valuation. She is also enthusiastic about conducting multidisciplinary studies between economy/finance and accounting. She has experiences in auditing, banking, and equity research industries.

• B.C.L., University of Oxford, 1992
• LL.B., King's College, University of London (First Class Honours), 1990
• Advocate and Solicitor (Singapore), 1993

Academic Position Held

Current Appointments:

Qualifications

• PhD, Yale University, USA, 2019
• MPhil, Yale University, USA, 2017
• MA, Yale University, USA, 2015

Research Interests

• Science and Technology Studies
• History of Life Sciences
• History of Biomedicine
• Postcolonial Feminist Theory
• Medical Anthropology

Course(s) Taught in SMU

• Biotechnology in a Global Society
• Epidemics - Biomedicine and Global Health
• Epidemics - Life Sciences, Biomedicine, and Global Health

Professor ZHANG Liandong is the Dean of the School of Accountancy at Singapore Management University (SMU) and the Lee Kong Chian Professor of Accounting. Since joining SMU in 2017, he has held key leadership roles in the School’s strategic development, serving as Associate Dean (Research) from 2017 to 2023 and as Deputy Dean from 2023 to 2025. He was appointed Dean on 1 July 2025 following an international search.

Cyndi Man Zhang is an Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. She received her Ph.D. from INSEAD.