Associate Professor Dr Jason Ng Wei Jian
- Deputy Dean (Employability and Alumni)
Biography
Associate Professor Dr Jason Ng Wei Jian is the Deputy Dean of Employability and Alumni in the School of Mathematical Sciences. An econometrician and emerging data scientist focused on issues of national importance, Dr Jason’s diverse research interests include the areas of subjective well-being, Malaysian housing affordability, vulnerable communities and modelling electorate behaviour dynamics in Malaysia. He has also lent his data expertise to industries and non-governmental organisations in consultancy and engagement projects.
An educator at heart, Dr Jason Ng has won educational awards at the School and National levels. Dr Jason Ng is an avid user of R which statisticians and data miners widely use, infusing it in his teaching, research and external engagements. He is a certified data professional by the Centre of Applied Data Science, having completed their 2-month course on Enterprise Data Analytics. By leveraging his data analytical skills, he is working towards contributing to the formulation of evidence-based policies that would impact society.
Prior to joining Sunway University, Dr Jason Ng was the Head of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics in the School of Business at Monash University Malaysia.
Academic & Professional Qualifications
- PhD, Monash University, Australia (2012)
- Bachelor of Commerce (Honours), Monash University, Australia (2007)
- Bachelor of Commerce, Monash University, Australia (2006)
Research Interests
- ICT and Education in Vulnerable Communities
- Life Satisfaction and Subjective Well-being
- Malaysian Housing Affordability
- Malaysian Electorate Behavior Dynamics
Notable Publications
Vasuthevan K.; Vaithilingam S.; Ng J.W.J. (2024). Academics’ continuance intention to use learning technologies during COVID-19 and beyond. PLOS ONE, 19(1). Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0295746
Hwang L.-A.; Vaithilingam S.; Ng J.W.J.; Nair M.; Ahmed P.; Musa K.I. (2024). The continuance intention to vaccinate against COVID-19: An empirical study from Malaysia. PLOS ONE, 19. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0301383
Jason Ng Wei Jian Ng, Catherine S. Forbes, Tomas Zelinsky, Cash Hao Looi. (2024) Beyond the 30 per cent Threshold: Introduing a Subjective Indicator for Measuring Housing Affordability in Malaysia. Malaysian Housing Affordability – Deciphering the Black Box
Gary John Rangel, Jason Wei Jian Ng, Thangarajah Thiyagarajan Murugasu, Wai Ching Poon. (2023). Measuring Long-Run Housing Affordability for Malaysian Millennial Households: A Geospatial and Income Distribution Analysis, International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-02-2023-0017
Jason Wei Jian Ng, Tomas Zelinsky, Catherine Forbes, Looi Cash. (2023). Measuring subjective housing affordability using a datadriven discrete information approach: A case study of Selangor, Malaysia. Applied Economics Letters.
Vaithilingam S, Hwang L-A, Nair M, Ng JWJ, Ahmed P, Musa KI (2023) COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and its drivers: An empirical study of the vaccine hesitant group in Malaysia. PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282520. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0282520
