I am interested in supervising PhD students who are interested in causal inference using econometrics. 

Zhiming Cheng is a Professor of Economics and Director of Research Training in the Department of Management at Macquarie Business School. He also holds an Adjunct Associate Professorship and was a UNSW Scientia Associate Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney).

He has held prestigious fellowships, including the Jacob Wertheim Fellowship at Harvard University and a Research Fellowship at the Bank of Finland. He was also an elected Fellow at the Global Young Academy.

Zhiming has published over 90 papers in ABDC A*/A and CiteScore/SJR Q1 journals across various disciplines, such as economics, management, demography, urban studies, migration studies, and area studies. His work has appeared in Journal of Business Venturing, Human Relations, World Development, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Journal of Population Economics, Journal of Business Ethics, Urban Studies, Tourism Management, Population, Space & Place, Cities, Energy Economics, The Energy Journal, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Social Policy & Administration, Child Abuse & Neglect, and Learning & Individual Differences, among others.

Recognised nationally and internationally, Zhiming received the 2011 Australia–China Joint Action Program Award from the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (ASSA) and the 2012 Medal for Research on Development by the Global Development Network. He also received the 2013 Pacific Trade and Economic Development (PAFTAD) Fellowship for Young Scholars.

He was the sole winner of the 2016 Dean's Research Excellence Award at Macquarie Business School and the 2011 Early Career Researcher Achievement Award at the University of Wollongong.

Since 2022, he has been listed among Elsevier/Stanford University's top 2% of scientists worldwide by citations. He is also ranked among the top 5% economists by RePec. 

Zhiming holds two ARC Discovery Projects: "Demographic and Social Dimensions of Migrant Ageing and Wellbeing in Australia" ($483,211) and "China's Changing Internal Migration: Patterns, Causes, Policy Implications" ($355,211).

His recent research can be found on his website, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar.