Teck-Hua Ho Explained

Teck-Hua Ho
Office:	5th President of Nanyang Technological University
Term Start:	24 April 2023
Predecessor:	Subra Suresh
Birth Date:	10 May 1961
Birth Place:	Singapore
Education:	National University of Singapore University of Pennsylvania
Module:	Embed: yes Workplaces: University of California, Berkeley University of Pennsylvania University of California, Los Angeles Nanyang Technological University Thesis Title: Product design strategy analysis: The marketing-manufacturing interface Thesis Url: https://www.proquest.com/docview/304073711/ Thesis Year: 1993 Doctoral Advisors: Morris Cohen Jehoshua Eliashberg

Teck-Hua Ho is the fifth president of the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU).^[1] He is also a Distinguished University Professor at NTU Singapore. Prior to joining NTU, he was the senior deputy president and provost at the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the William Halford Jr. Family Professor of Marketing at the Haas School of Business (University of California, Berkeley).^[2] Since July 2017, he has been the founding executive chairman of AI Singapore, a national research and development programme.^{[3] [4] [5]}

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

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.^[6] 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,^[7] 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^[8] and three Earl F. Cheit Awards for Excellence in Teaching.^[9]

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.^[10]

Ho was senior deputy president and provost (2018-2023),^[11] deputy president of research and technology (2015-2017) and vice president of research strategy (2011-2012)^[12] at NUS. He was also a professor of economics and marketing at the NUS Business School and director of the NUS Centre for Behavioural Economics.

In 2023, Ho was appointed as the fifth president of NTU.^[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 editor-in-chief of Management Science, from 1 July 2014 to 31 December 2017. He is a member of the boards of DSO National Laboratories,^[15] the Government Technology Agency,^[16] and the National Research Foundation, Singapore.^[17] He is also president of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore,^[18] and an academician of Academia Sinica.^[19]

Selected papers

• Camerer C., Dreber A., Holzmeister F., Ho T-H., Huber J., Johannesson M., Kirchler M., Nave G., Nosek B., Pfeiffer T., Altmejd A., Buttrick N., Chan T., Chen Y., Forsell E., Gampa A., Heikensten E., Hummer L., Imai T., Isaksson S., Manfredi D., Rose J., Wagenmakers E-J., Wu H., “Evaluating the Replicability of Social Science Experiments in Science & Nature between 2010 and 2015“, Nature Human Behaviour 2: 627-644, 2018 (published online on 27 August 2018).
• Camerer, C., Dreber, A., Forsell, E., Ho, T-H., Huber, J., Johannesson, M., Kirchler, M., Almenberg, J., Altmejd, A., Chan, T., Heikensten, E., Holzmeister, F., Imai, T., Isaksson, S., Nave, G., Pfeiffer, T., Razen, M., Wu, H. “Evaluating replicability of laboratory experiments in Economics”, Science 10.1126/science.aaf0918, 2016.
• 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.

External links

• Personal Website
• Profile at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Notes and References

1. Web site: Professor Ho Teck Hua. Corporate NTU.
2. Web site: Teck Ho . Faculty Directory . . 2014-02-11 . 2018-06-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180618102523/http://facultybio.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty-list/ho-teck/ . dead .
3. Web site: AI.SG: New National Programme to Catalyse, Synergise and Boost Singapore's AI Capabilities. Government Singapore.
4. Web site: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Is Not Assured. Corporate NUS.
5. Web site: The Team - AI Singapore. Corporate AI Singapore.
6. Web site: Teck Ho | Faculty Directory | Berkeley-Haas . 2014-02-11 . 2018-06-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180618102523/http://facultybio.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty-list/ho-teck/ . dead .
7. Web site: Prof. Teck Ho Receives Prestigious Williamson Award. 19 February 2015.
8. Web site: Past DTA Recipients | Center for Teaching & Learning.
9. Web site: Previous Cheit Award Recipients. Berkeley Haas.
10. Web site: Archived copy . 2015-06-17 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221313/http://tanfoundation.com.sg/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Prof_HoTeckHua.pdf . dead .
11. Web site: Professor Ho Teck Hua to assume NTU presidency . 2023-05-04 . Professor Ho Teck Hua to assume NTU presidency . en-sg.
12. Web site: Prof Dr HO Teck Hua – Future Resilient Systems | ETH Zurich . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180826214441/https://www.ethz.ch/content/specialinterest/dual/frs/en/people/PI/HoTeckHua.html . 2018-08-26 . 2018-08-26.
13. Web site: Professor Ho Teck Hua appointed president of NTU .
14. Web site: Teck-Hua Ho. scholar.google.com.
15. Web site: Board of Directors. dso.org.sg.
16. Web site: Our Team. tech.gov.sg. 9 February 2022.
17. Web site: NRF Singapore . nrf.gov.sg.
18. Web site: The President. saeng.sg.
19. News: 院士簡歷 . academicians.sinica.edu.tw.