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Teck-Hua Ho
File:Teck-Hua Ho.png
Born (1961-05-10) May 10, 1961 (age 63)
Singapore
NationalitySingapore
Alma materNational University of Singapore, Wharton School
Scientific career
FieldsBehavioural Economics; Data Science; Management Science; Marketing
InstitutionsNational University of Singapore

Teck-Hua Ho is a Tan Chin Tuan Centennial Professor[1] at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is also the senior deputy president and provost at NUS.[2][3] Prior to joining NUS, he was the William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley).[4] He is also the executive chairman of AI Singapore,[5] a national research and development programme, and chairman of the Singapore Data Science Consortium.

Education

Ho obtained a bachelor's degree with first class honours in electrical engineering in 1985 and a master's degree in computer and information sciences in 1989 from NUS. He then obtained a master's degree in 1991 and a PhD in 1993 in decision sciences from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Career

Prior to becoming senior deputy president and provost, Ho was deputy president (research & technology) (2015-2017) and part-time vice president (research strategy) (2011-2012)[6] at NUS. He is also a professor of economics and marketing at the NUS Business School.[7] Ho also serves as director of the NUS Centre for Behavioural Economics.[8]

From 2002 to 2015, Ho was a professor at the Haas School of Business. At the School, he was the William Halford Jr. Family Chair in Marketing and director of the Asia Business Center.[9] He was also associate dean of academic affairs (2004-2006) and chair of the marketing group (2004-2006 and 2008-2011). While at the Haas School, he won numerous awards, including the Williamson Award,[10] named for the UC Berkeley faculty member Oliver E. Williamson, the 2009 Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences. The award is the Haas School’s highest faculty award, and celebrates honorees who best reflect the character and integrity associated with Williamson’s scholarly work and legacy. Ho has also won the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award[11] and three Earl F. Cheit Awards for Excellence in Teaching.[12]

From 1997 to 2002, Ho was associate professor of marketing at the Wharton School. Prior to his time at the Wharton School, he was assistant professor of operations and technology management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.[13]

Ho's research interests include behavioral game theory and alternatives to equilibrium models, behavioral change in the field, and data-driven decision sciences.[14]

Ho was the first non-US citizen[citation needed] to be editor-in-chief of Management Science, from 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2017. He is a board member of the National University Health System,[15] the National Environment Agency,[16] and the Defence Science and Technology Agency,[17] and is a fellow at the Civil Service College Singapore.[18]

Selected papers

  • Ho, T-H., Chong, J-K. and Xia, X., “Yellow taxis have fewer accidents than blue taxis because yellow is more visible than blue”, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (published ahead of print March 6, 2017, doi:10.1073/pnas.1612551114), 2017.
  • Ho, T-H. and Zhang, J-J., “Designing Pricing Contracts for Boundedly Rational Customers: Does the Framing of the Fixed Fee Matter?”, Management Science 54(4): 686-700, 2008.
  • Ho, T-H., Lim, N. and Camerer, C., “Modeling the Psychology of Consumer and Firm Behavior with Behavioral Economics”, Journal of Marketing Research 43(3): 307-331, 2006.
  • Camerer, C., Ho, T-H. and Chong J-K., “A Cognitive Hierarchy Model of Games”, Quarterly Journal of Economics 119(3): 861-898, 2004.
  • Camerer, C. and Ho, T-H., “Experience-weighted Attraction Learning in Normal Form Games”, Econometrica 67(4): 827-874, 1999.
  • Ho, T-H., Camerer, C. and Weigelt, K., “Iterated Dominance and Iterated Best Response in Experimental p-Beauty Contests”, The American Economic Review 88(4): 947-969, 1998.

References

  1. ^ http://tanfoundation.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prof_HoTeckHua.pdf
  2. ^ "Prof Tan Eng Chye to be next NUS President". news.nus.com.
  3. ^ http://www.nus.edu.sg/about/management/ho-teck-hua
  4. ^ "Teck Ho". Faculty Directory. Haas School of Business.
  5. ^ https://www.aisingapore.org/management/
  6. ^ https://www.ethz.ch/content/specialinterest/dual/frs/en/people/PI/HoTeckHua.html
  7. ^ http://bizfaculty.nus.edu/faculty-profiles/275-ho--teck-hua
  8. ^ http://bschool.nus.edu/CBE/People/CentrePersonnel/tabid/3070/default.aspx
  9. ^ http://facultybio.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty-list/ho-teck
  10. ^ http://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/article/prof-teck-ho-receives-prestigious-williamson-award
  11. ^ http://teaching.berkeley.edu/programs/distinguished-teaching-award/past-dta-recipients
  12. ^ http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/previous_awards.html
  13. ^ http://tanfoundation.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prof_HoTeckHua.pdf
  14. ^ "Google Scholar Profile - Teck Ho". Google.
  15. ^ "Board Members". nuhs.edu.sg.
  16. ^ "Board of Directors". nea.gov.sg.
  17. ^ "Board of Directors". dsta.gov.sg.
  18. ^ "Fellows". www.cscollege.gov.sg.
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