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ProfBilly Sung

Professor

School of Management and Marketing

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  • Professor
    School of Management and Marketing

BIOGRAPHY AND RESEARCH IMPACT

Professor Billy Sung is a national and international award-winning professor at the School of Management and Marketing, Curtin University. Billy specialises in digital marketing, AI-human interaction and consumer psychology, consulting for many local, international, and multinational industry partners. Billy’s research is based on the use of digital innovation such as artificial intelligence and social listening as well as consumer innovation such as biometrics to conduct market and consumer research. He is passionate about solving industry challenges and marketing problems with digital technologies, data, and consumer insights. His research and industry consultancy have informed the design of effective marketing communications, product design, corporate social responsibility initiatives, behavioural change techniques, and teaching innovations around the world. His research on biometrics and neuromarketing is recognised internationally and has been featured in an TEDx talk (https://youtu.be/ZMoQY84NTgE).

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    Curtin University, Australia1 Jan 2023 - present
  • Visiting Professor
    Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom1 Jan 2024 - present
  • Associate Professor
    Curtin University, Australia1 Jan 2021 - 31 Dec 2022
  • Senior Lecturer
    Curtin University, Australia2019 - 31 Dec 2020
  • Lecturer
    Curtin University, Australia2016 - 2018
  • Adjunct Research Fellow
    Griffith University, Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Gold Coast, Australia2016 - present

DEGREES

  • PhD in Psychology
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia2012 - 2016
  • Bachelor of Psychological Science
    University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia2008 - 2011

ROLE

  • Staff

SUPERVISOR LEVEL

  • Level 1 (Primary Supervisor): The lead academic responsible for overseeing the candidate's research and progress.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

  • 3506 - Marketing
  • 3507 - Strategy, management and organisational behaviour
  • 3508 - Tourism
  • 4205 - Nursing
  • 4206 - Public health
  • 5202 - Biological psychology
  • 5204 - Cognitive and computational psychology
  • 5205 - Social and personality psychology

DEPARTMENT

  • School of Management and Marketing