HKU Engineering scholars achieved outstanding results in the 2024-2025 round of research grant funding under several schemes by Hong Kong's Research Grants Council (RGC).
The details of the funded projects are as follows:
2024/2025 NSFC-RGC Joint Research Scheme
Principal Investigator: Professor Mingfu Guan, Department of Civil Engineering
Project Title: Developing strategies to boost resilience of metro systems to extreme flooding in a changing climate
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$992,300
Principal Investigator: Professor Wai-yuen Szeto, Department of Civil Engineering
Project Title: Dynamic intercity ridesharing: Models, algorithms, and policy insights
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$1,223,482
Principal Investigator: Professor Yuxiang Yang, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science
Project Title: Quantum sensors with optimized complexity for the NISQ era
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$1,209,740
Principal Investigator: Professor Jia Pan, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science
Project Title: Modelling, Perception, Learning and Reaction of Human Feedback for Open-World Mixed Autonomy
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$1,223,482
For more information about NSFC-RGC Joint Research Scheme, please visit link.
NSFC/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme
Principal Investigator: Professor Yizhou Yu, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science
Project Title: Next Generation Visual Perception in Open-world by Learning from Multi-Source Data
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$3,600,000
Principal Investigator: Professor Kaibin Huang, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Project Title: Space-ground Integrated Intelligent Computing and Networking for 6G Large-scale Constellations
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$3,563,968
For more information about NSFC/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme, please visit link.
Collaborative Research Fund 2024/25
Principal Investigator: Professor C.E. Choi, Department of Civil Engineering
Project Title: Disaster reconstruction of debris flow for rapid rescue of buried objects using differentiable physics-guided machine learning
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$4,078,834
Principal Investigator: Professor J. Liu, Department of Data and Systems Engineering
Project Title: Boron and Nitrogen (BN) Doped Helicenes with High Performance Circularly Polarized Luminescence: New Materials Synthesis, Fundamental Mechanism, and Devices Engineering.
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$1,666,000
Principal Investigator: Professor Can Li, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Project Title: Heterogenous in-memory computing hardware technologies for fast and efficient genomic analysis
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$4,500,000
For more information about Collaborative Research Fund, please visit link.
ANR/RGC Joint Research Scheme - 2024/25 Exercise
Principal Investigator: Professor Tong Zhang, Department of Civil Engineering
Project Title: Conjugative Transfer of Plasmid-borne Antibiotic Resistance Genes to Environmental Bacteria in Crop Production Systems Irrigated with Municipal Wastewater Effluents
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$2,274,078
For more information about ANR/RGC Joint Research Scheme, please visit link.
Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards 2024
Principal Investigator: Professor Chenshu Wu, Department of Computer Science, School of Computing and Data Science
Project Title: Development of a Practical Elderly Fall Detection Solution via Non-Intrusive, Low-Cost Sensing
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$ 389,000
Principal Investigator: Professor On Kwok Victor Li, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Project Title: A Large Language Model (LLM) driven Approach for Advancing Low cost Timely Speech based Late Onset Alzheimer's Disease (LOAD) Prediction
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$ 389,000
For more information about Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards, please visit link.