Prerona DAS

Research Fellow

 ✉️ preronadas@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Politics of Infrastructure
  • Smart Cities
  • Frontier Urbanism
  • Urban Geopolitics

Research Project(s)

  • Technocratic Regionalism in Southeast Asia: The Translational Politics of Smart City Knowledge Transfer
  • Autonomizing Environmental Governance in Asian Cities: AI, Climate Change, and Frictional Urbanisms

Praveen Rao TELETI

Research Fellow

 ✉️ praveent@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Reconstructing long-term rainfall variability in Southeast Asia using historical weather observations
  • Climate modelling and analysis of large datasets
  • Advancing climate science for societal benefit

Research Project(s)

  • Building a Deeper Long-Term Climate Understanding of Rainfall Trends in Singapore, West Malaysia, and Northern Sumatra

Ven Paolo Bruno VALENZUELA

Research Fellow

 ✉️ vpvalenzuela@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction
  • Coastal Disasters
  • Socio-spatial dimensions of urbanization and coastal hazards
  • Risk perception in cities and settlements by the sea
  • Science and Risk Communication
  • Land Reclamation and Floating Solutions as Climate Change Adaptation
  • Transdisciplinary Sustainability Science and Disaster Studies

Research Project(s)

  • Developing a Risk Assessment and Communication Platform to Translate Climate Projections to Policy

Aram CHO

Postdoctoral Fellow

 ✉️ aramcho@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) Policy for Development
  • Megaprojects and Sustainability
  • Artificial Intelligence in the Public Sector

Research Project(s)

  • Generating Actionable Climate Risk Information: A Bayesian Approach

AI Pengya

Senior Research Associate

 ✉️ pengyaai@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Environmental Communication
  • Risk Communication
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Media Psychology

Research Project(s)

  • Climate Transformation Hub

Aikeen LIM

Research Associate

 ✉️ aikeenlim@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Thermal Comfort
  • Climate Resilience and Adaptation
  • Nature-based Solutions and Ecosystem Services
  • Greenspace Use and Accessibility

Research Project(s)

  • Cool Paints Trials in Schools to Mitigate UHI Effects

Philip KESTEL

Research Associate

 ✉️ pkestel@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Urban Climate and Microclimatology
  • Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Settings
  • Urban Vegetation and Climate Resilience
  • Urban Air Quality Dynamics 

Research Project(s)

  • Cool Paints Trials in Schools to Mitigate UHI Effects

YIK Sin Kang

Research Associate

 ✉️ skyik@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Outdoor Thermal Comfort
  • Urban Climate
  • Sensor Network Deployment

Research Project(s)

  • Cooling Singapore 2.0: Digital Urban Climate Twin
  • Cooling Singapore 2.0: Urban Climate Risks
  • How hot is it? Precision and accuracy of thermal indices in representing outdoor thermal perceptions in Singapore

Beatrice HO

Research Assistant

 ✉️ beatriceho@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Outdoor Thermal Comfort
  • Urban Climate
  • Sensor Network Deployment

Research Project(s)

  • Cooling Singapore 2.0: Urban Climate Risks
  • How hot is it? Precision and accuracy of thermal indices in representing outdoor thermal perceptions in Singapore

William LIU

Research Assistant

 ✉️ williamliu@smu.edu.sg

Research Area(s) / Interest(s)

  • Educational research in creativity and innovative tendencies
  • Student’s failure tolerance and resilience
  • Lifelong learning in the workplace and mastery
  • Emerging tasks in the workplace in the age of digitalisation and remote working

Research Project(s)

  • The Future Is Interdisciplinary: Developing Lifelong Learning Through Singapore Management University's Core Curriculum

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