Cheng, Shaoming Graduate Faculty

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biography

  • Shaoming Cheng is a Professor at the Department of Public Policy and Administration, Florida International University. Previously, he was the Department Chair, MPA Program Director, and Interim Director of Ph.D. in Public Affairs. He received his Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University. His research is devoted to evidence-based and data-augmented decision making that informs effective and efficient public policy and administration options and designs. He has been engaged in a wide variety of funded research projects with support from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Economic Development Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of Justice, the Kauffman Foundation, and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy.

    He has served the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) as Commissioner and Chair of the Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation (COPRA), Chair of the Eligibility Committee, Member of the Data Committee, and site visitor and site visit team chair. He is active in the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), with service on the National Council, the Finance Committee, as Program Co-Chair for the 2023 Annual Conference, and as a Board Member of the Section on Chinese Public Administration, as well as an enthusiastic supporter of ASPA’s South Florida Chapter. He was a Member of the Graduate Education Committee of the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) and the faculty advisor of the ICMA Student Chapter at FIU (ICMA@FIU). He is the Managing Editor of Public Administration Quarterly.

research interests

  • His research interests focus on sustainable and resilient growth, entrepreneurship and small business development policy, affordable housing, social determinants of health, spatial econometric modeling, big data and AI analytics, policy impact analysis and evaluation, and regional economic performance and development.

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full name

  • Shaoming Cheng

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