Chew Soo Hong

Chew Soo Hong is professor and provost’s chair at the National University of Singapore (NUS). He received his Ph.D. in interdisciplinary studies from the University of British Columbia and has previously taught at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of California, Irvine, Johns Hopkins University, and University of Arizona. Chew is co-director of NUS’ lab for Behavioral x Biological Economics and the Social Sciences which aims to bring together decision theory, neuroscience, genomics, and behavioral and experimental economics to seek a deeper understanding of decision making at the neural and molecular levels. He is among the pioneers in axiomatic non-expected utility models and is a fellow of the Econometric Society which awarded him the Leonard J. Savage thesis prize. Chew has published in well-regarded journals in economics such as Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Economic Theory as well as more biology-oriented ones including PNAS, PRSB, Neuron, and Neuroimage.