Associate Professor Dr Jason Ng Wei Jian

Associate Professor Dr Jason Ng Wei Jian

  • Deputy Dean (Employability and Alumni)
Department of Applied Statistics
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SDGs Focus
No Poverty
Good Health and Well Being
Quality Education
Sustainable Cities and Communities

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

  1. 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), e0295746. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295746 
  2. Ng, J. W. J., Želinský, T., Forbes, C. S., & Looi, C. H. (2023). Measuring subjective housing affordability using a data-driven discrete information approach: A case study of Selangor, Malaysia. Applied Economics Letters, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2023.2208833 
  3. Rangel, G. J., Ng, J. W. J., Murugasu, T. T., & Poon, W. C. (2023). Measuring long-run housing affordability for Malaysian millennial households: a geospatial and income distribution analysis. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print). https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-02-2023-0017 
  4. Vaithilingam, S., Hwang, L.-A., Nair, M., Ng, J. W. J., Ahmed, P., & Musa, K. I. (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 
  5. Nair, M., Vaithilingam, S., Ahmed, P., Hwang, L.-A., & Ng, J. W. J. (2023). Future-Proofing the Talent of Malaysia's Indian B40 Community for the New Economy: A Multi-Stakeholder Partnership Framework. In R. Nagappan & H. Mukherjee (Eds.), Malaysian Indians and Education: Reimagined Development Opportunities: Routledge.
  6. Hwang, L.-A., Vaithilingam, S., Nair, M., & Ng, J. W. J. (2022). Nurturing academic enthusiasm and creativity among children from vulnerable communities: the role of computers. Behaviour & Information Yechnology, 41(12), 2596-2615. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2021.1938227 
  7. Ng, J. W. J., Vaithilingam, S., Lee, G. H. Y., & Rangel, G. J. (2022). Life Satisfaction and Incumbent Voting: Examining the Mediating Effect of Trust in Government. Journal of Happiness Studies, 1-21. doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-022-00536-z
  8. Ng, J. W. J., Vaithilingam, S., Nair, M., Hwang, L.-A., & Musa, K. I. (2022). Key predictors of COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in Malaysia: An integrated framework. PLoS One, 17(5), e0268926-e0268926. doi:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268926
  9. Ng, J. W. J., Rangel, G. J., & Phung, Y. C. (2021). Did urbanization or ethnicity matter more in Malaysia’s 14th General Election? Contemporary Southeast Asia, 43, 465-495. doi: https://doi.org/10.1355/cs-43-3b
  10. Ng, J. W. J., Rangel, G. J., & Phung, Y. C. (2021). Malaysia’s 14th General Election: dissecting the ‘Malaysian tsunami’—measuring the impacts of ethnicity and urban development on electoral outcomes. Asian Journal of Political Science, 29(1), 42-66. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/02185377.2020.1814363Želinský, 
  11. T., Mysíková, M., & Ng, J. W. J. (2021). Choosing an optimal material deprivation indicator threshold. Applied Economics Letters, 28(2), 100-104. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2020.1734181 
  12. Želinský, T., Ng, J. W. J., & Mysíková, M. (2020). Estimating subjective poverty lines with discrete information. Economics Letters, 196, 109545. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2020.109545 
  13. Hwang, L.-A., Ng, J. W. J., & Vaithilingam, S. (2019). Social capital and subjective well-being: The mediating role of social networking sites. First Monday. doi: https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v24i10.10130
  14. Rangel, G. J., Ng, J. W. J., Murugasu, T. T., & Poon, W. C. (2019). Measuring Malaysian housing affordability: the lifetime income approach. International Journal of Housing Markets and Analysis, 12(5), 966-984. doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/IJHMA-02-2019-0023 
  15. Rangel, G. J., Ng, J. W. J., Thiyagarajan Murugasu, T. M., & Poon, W. C. (2019). A Micro-Level View of Housing Affordability in Malaysia Using an Age Cohort-housing Type Analysis. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 56(1), 1-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.22452/MJES.vol56no1.1
  16. Ng, J. W. J., Vaithilingam, S., & Chua, J. M. (2019). Determinants of well-being for developing and developed countries and their role in policy-making: A panel data analysis. Malaysian Journal of Economic Studies, 56(1), 85-105. doi: https://doi.org/10.22452/MJES.vol56no1.5
  17. Ng, J. W. J., Vaithilingam, S., & Rangel, G. J. (2017). The Role of Life Satisfaction on Election Voting Preferences in Malaysia. Asian Journal of Social Science, 45(1-2), 149-175. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685314-04501007 
  18. Rangel, G. J., & Ng, J. W. J. (2017). Macroeconomic drivers of Singapore private residential prices: a Markov-Switching Approach. Capital Markets Review, 25(2), 15-31. 
  19. Ng, J. W. J., Rangel, G. J., Vaithilingam, S., & Pillay, S. S. (2015). 2013 Malaysian Elections: Ethnic Politics or Urban Wave? Journal of East Asian Studies, 15, 167-198. doi: https://10.1017/S1598240800009334Ng, 
  20. Ng, J. W. J., Rangel, G. J., Vaithilingam, S., & Pillay, S. S. (2015). Rejoinder: The Authors Respond to “Interpreting Ethnicity and Urbanization in Malaysia's 2013 General Election”. Journal of East Asian Studies, 15(2), 227-241. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1598240800009358 
  21. Ng, J., Forbes, C. S., Martin, G. M., & McCabe, B. P. M. (2013). Non-parametric estimation of forecast distributions in non-Gaussian, non-linear state space models. International Journal of Forecasting, 29(3), 411-430. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijforecast.2012.10.005