Michelle Cheong

Professor Cheong has served a variety of academic appointments at SMU since 2005, including as a Lecturer, Assistant Professor and Associate Professor of Information Systems. In addition to her current role as Professor of Information Systems, Professor Cheong also holds administrative positions at SMU, serving as an Associate Dean of SIS Post-Graduate Professional Education and as Director of Doctor of Engineering.

Professor Cheong’s research interests include data and decision analytics, spreadsheets modeling and pedagogy, and learning analytics and text mining. In 2018, she was awarded the SMU Teaching Excellence Award - Postgraduate Professional Programmes by the SMU Centre of Teaching Excellence.

Professor Cheong’s work has been featured in a number of journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings and papers, and magazine articles. Her latest work on the impact of peer helper training at SMU was published by the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring.

Education

• PhD, Operations Management Nanyang Technological University Singapore (2001 - 2005)
• Master of Science - MS Nanyang Technological University (2001 — 2002)
• Master of Science - MS National University of Singapore (1994 — 1996)
• BEng National University of Singapore (1989 — 1993)

Teaching Topics

• Computer as an Analysis Tool
• Operations Analytics & Applications