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Notable Recognition
Congratulations to
Dr. Tang Chenyong and Dr. Leng Chenlei for winning the Faculty Teaching
Excellence Award AY2008/2009, Asst Prof. Chan Hock Peng for winning the
Outstanding Scientist Award 2009 and Dr. Leng Chenlei for winning the Young
Scientist Award 2009 as well.
Congratulations to Asst Prof. Qian Wenlan on winning the Best Paper Award at the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association International Conference and Asian Real Estate Society Conference in July, 2009 for her paper on "Agent Heterogeneity and Housing Market Dynamics".
RMI Management Board Member, Professor Bernard Yeung, has been
selected to be a member of the high-powered Economic Strategies Committee
(ESC). The ESC is a Government initiative that will be chaired by Mr
Tharman Shanmugaratnam, Minister for Finance.
Prof Yeung will be part of the 25-member Committee that will bring a
wide range of ideas aimed at developing strategies for Singapore to build
capabilities and also maximize opportunities as a global city. Key
objectives include seizing growth opportunities, building corporate
resilience, and developing human and knowledge capital.
Prof Yeung is the only academic in the committee. Other members include
representatives from the labour movement as well as the private sector.
RMI Affiliated Researchers Prof. Allaudeen Hammed and Prof. Sun Jie have been awarded the Provost’s Chair;
RMI Affiliated Researcher Assoc Prof. Melvyn Sim and DPD Program Director Assoc Prof. Anand Srinivasan
have been awarded the Dean’s Chair. These
appointments are in recognition of their outstanding and impactful scholarly achievements,
and will take effect from July 2009.
We look forward to their leadership and contributions to the growing international profile
and standing of the University and the School.
NUS honoured 10 outstanding individuals at the University Awards 2009
which was held at the University Cultural Centre. The annual University
Awards honours and recognises members of the NUS community who, through
their consistently outstanding performance and resolute commitment,
exemplify benchmarks of excellence in the University's core competencies
of education, research and service. Assoc Prof. Melvyn Sim was one of the proud
recipients of the University Young Researcher Award.
Assoc Prof. Anand Srinivasan, Department of Finance, and Director of the RMI's NUS-Columbia University
Double Professional Degree Program and an RMI affiliated researcher, has received the Faculty Outstanding
Researcher Award at the NUS Business School for the year 2008/2009.
Dimension reduction is one of the most basic approaches towards scientific investigation. Classical statistics have traditionally
focused on linear dimension reduction methods such as the principal components analysis, the canonical correlations analysis and
factor analysis. With the emergence of massive data sets that are both complex structure and multi-dimensional, the development
of efficient non-linear dimension reduction methods has never been more pressing and imminent. Associate Professor Xia Yingcun’s
work on non-linear dimension reduction method can be best described as one of the recent research breakthroughs in classical
statistics. The method he developed has been widely used in statistical modeling and other scientific researches.
Prof. Duan Jin-Chuan, Director, Risk Management Institute
and Professor from Department of Finance was elected to be an Academician, Division of Humanities and Social Sciences,
for Academia Sinica at its biennial Convocation of Academicians from 1-4 Jul. This prestigious honor is given to recognize a
scholar's lifetime achievements in research.
Academia Sinica is the pre-eminent academic institution based in
Taipei, Taiwan to promote and undertake scholarly research in the sciences and humanities. It was founded in 1928 and was
re-established in Taipei in 1949. Academia Sinica is made up of 24 research institutes and seven research centers.
Prof. Duan was also appointed as the Cycle and Carriage Professor from 1 June 2008. The award of the Cycle and Carriage Chair
recognises Prof. Duan's strong research record and academic leadership, particularly of the Risk Management Institute.
RMI affiliated researchers,
Prof. Allaudeen Hameed (NUS), Asst. Prof. Kang Wenjin (NUS) along
with their co-author, Prof. Kalok Chan (HKUST) have been awarded the Best Paper Award
at the China International Conference in Finance (CICF) for their paper titled "Stock price synchronicity and liquidity".
This year's CICF was held in Dalian, China on 2-5 July
and provides an open platform to bring together scholars worldwide to present research and to stimulate discussions on new
developments in finance.
Assoc Prof. Anand Srinivasan, Director of the RMI Double
Professional Degree Programme with Columbia University won second place for the FAMA-DFA
Best Paper Award for the Best Paper Award competition, published in the
Journal of Financial Economics in 2007. Prof. Srinivasan's paper, "Does Industry wide distress affect defaulted firms?
Evidence from creditor recoveries" was co-authored with Prof. Viral Acharya (London Business School) and Dr Sreedhar Bharath
(University of Michigan).
RMI affiliated researcher, Dr. Han Heejoon from the Dept. of Economics was awarded the RBNZ-NZESG Research
Award at the Special NZESG Meeting in honor of Prof. Peter C B Phillips in March 2008 for his paper entitled
"GARCH Process with Persistent Covariates". This is an award sponsored by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand
given to young econometricians on the basis of research presented at an NZESG (New Zealand Econometric Study
Group) meeting.
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