TEACHING
To be a passionate educator who devotes herself to linking classroom with real world and nurturing future professionals in urban and real estate domain---this is my goal. Specifically, I have developed three main teaching philosophies: (i) instilling state-of-art research into teaching, (ii) creating inclusive and supportive teaching & learning environment, and (iii) engaging students with innovative online and offline interactions.
PhD-Level:
STUDENTS SUPERVISION
PhD students:
- Real Estate Research Methodology, NUS
- Research Topics in Real Estate, NUS
- Real Estate Economics Seminar, NUS, guest lecturer
- Urban Policy & Real Estate Markets (MSc & MBA), NUS, lecturer
- Quantitative Methods for Urban Planning (Master in Urban Planning), NUS, lecturer
- Real Estate Fundamentals for Planning and Development (Master in Public Administration and Management for Chinese officials), NUS, lecturer (in Chinese)
- Executive Certificate in Real Estate Finance, NUS, moderator
- Social Research Methods in Developing Countries (Master), LSE, teaching assistant
- Real Estate, Society & Enterprise, NUS, lecturer
- Advanced Household Finance, NUS, lecturer
- Advanced Real Estate Economics, NUS, lecturer
- Research Methodology in Real Estate, NUS, lecturer
- Urban Challenges and Policies, NUS, lecturer
- Principles of Real Estate Economics (1st-year undergraduate, curriculum development, large class), NUS, lecturer
- Real Estate Data Analytics (1st-year undergraduate, curriculum development, large class), NUS, lecturer
- Research Methodology (3rd-year undergraduate, large class), NUS, lecturer
- Introductory Mathematical Economics (undergraduate), CUHK, teaching assistant
- Perspectives in Economics (undergraduate), CUHK, teaching assistant
- Mathematical Methods in Economics III (undergraduate), CUHK, teaching assistant
- Economics of Derivatives (undergraduate), CUHK, teaching assistant
STUDENTS SUPERVISION
PhD students:
- Thesis Committee for 5 PhD students and advisor for 5 visiting PhD students
- PhD Qualifying Examination Committee Oral Panel for 7 PhD candidates
- Internal Examiner for 5 PhD theses
- Planning Report Advisor for 2 Master of Urban Planning student
- Thesis Examiner for 2 students in MSc of Environmental Management / MSc in Real Estate and Urban Economics
- Final-year projects supervisor for 66 students (28 in A+/A/A- category)
- Faculty liaison for 29 undergraduate interns
SERVICE
External Services:
Internal Services:
University Level:
School Level:
Department Level:
- NUS Representative, Applied Economics Workshop (AEW) jointly held by University of Tokyo, National Taiwan University, National University of Singapore, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of Hong Kong, and Academia Sinica
- External Referee for Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (12 times)
- Member of Asia-Pacific Network for Housing Research (APNHR): Intergenerational Housing Working Group
- Founding Member of Research Network for Intergenerational Mobility (RNIM)
- Program Committee Member of 2026 Annual Conference of American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association – American Social Science Alliance.
- Scientific Committee Member, Workshop and Special Issue on Demographic Dynamics and Housing Affordability, 2026 Housing Studies.
- Program Coordinator and Committee Member, Annual Conference of Asian Real Estate Society 2021.
- Program Committee Member, Annual Conference of the Global Chinese Real Estate Congress 2021.
- Panel Judge, Asian Business Case Competition, Singapore 2021.
- Chairperson for Panel Discussion, 2023 Asian Real Estate Society - Global Chinese Real Estate Congress Joint International Real Estate Conference.
- Reviewer for real estate finance track, Asian Financial Association Annual Conference.
- PhD External Examiner, Chinese University of Hong Kong, University of Macau, Nanyang Technological University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
- Referees for more than 40 international academic journals:
- Economics & Finance: Quarterly Journal of Economics, Review of Economic Studies, Economic Journal, Journal of European Economic Association, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, Management Science, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Labor Economics, Energy Economics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Development Economics, Journal of Health Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, Journal of Comparative Economics, European Economic Review, China Economic Review, China Economic Journal, Real Estate Economics, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Review of Development Economics, Economics of Transition, Review of Income and Wealth, World Economy, Singapore Economic Review, Education Economics, Emerging Market Finance and Trade, Applied Economics, International Real Estate Review, Journal of Asia Pacific Economy, Economics Letters, Economic Transition and Institutional Change, Review of Economics of Household, Labour Economics, Economic Analysis and Policy, Housing Studies, International Journal of Strategic Property Management, Research on Economic Inequality, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance, Spatial Economic Analysis, Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance
- General, Energy, Medicine & Sociology: PNAS, Nature Climate Change, Nature Cities, Scientific Reports, Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, Nexus, Renewable Energy, Journal of Regional Science, Social Science & Medicine, Population, Space and Place, Journal of Housing and Built Environment, International Journal of Urban Sciences, PLoS One, Sociological Methods and Research, Journal of Happiness Studies, Transport Policy
Internal Services:
University Level:
- Peer Reviewer of Teaching for Academic Staff in Department of Finance (1 time), Department of Economics (2 times), Department of Geography (1 time), and Department of Computer Science (1 time)
- Initiated research collaboration between the Institute of Real Estate and Urban Studies, NUS, and the World Inequality Lab
School Level:
- Admission Committee, Master of Urban Planning
- Mid-term Advisory Report (MTAR) Committee Member for 2 Assistant Professors
- Master of Ceremony for School Awards Day 2017
Department Level:
- DRE Faculty Recruitment Committee
- DRE Faculty Recruitment Interview Panel
- Department Evaluation Committee (DEC) member for Promotion & Tenure of Assistant Professor
- PhD Program Coordinator
- PhD Reviewing Panel
- PhD Thesis Committee
- PhD Qualifying Examination Panel Member
- PhD Oral Defense Panel
- PhD Thesis Internal Examiner
- Panel Expert for Undergraduate Academic Exercise
- Chairman of core area meeting for undergraduate modules in Economics, Planning & Policy
- Initiated Predoc Program to recruit full-time predocs with an ambition to pursue PhD in future