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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