GRF / ECS Award (2022-23)
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Design and Systems Engineering | Professor Andy Ho Fai CHOW | Dynamic strategies for decentralised urban rail transit network operations under demand uncertainty |
| Advanced Design and Systems Engineering | Professor Tony Shien Ping FENG | Development of ionic-thermoelectric material and device for converting low-grade heat to electricity |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Kim Meow LIEW | Fire Performance Evaluation of Sustainable Basalt Fiber-Reinforced Limestone Calcined Clay Cement Composites |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Sai On CHEUNG | Toward Behaviour-based Construction Incentivisation |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Xiaoqiao HE | A combined theoretical and experimental study on the fabrication of carbon nanotube networks |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Yu WANG | Smart Sensing of Subsurface Soil Liquefaction Potential using Machine Learning and Virtual Reality |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Gongsheng HUANG | Air-layer-integrated ceiling radiant-cooling panels for hot and humid climates: system dynamics, control and energy performance |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Qiusheng LI | Nonstationary stochastic tropical cyclone model for regional wind hazard assessment under global warming |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Xiaowei LUO | Automatic Detection of Safety Violations using Vision and Knowledge |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Cheuk-lun CHOW | A Study on Operating Positive Pressure Ventilator in Room Fires |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Richard Kwok Kit YUEN | Artificial Neural Network Based Dual-functional System for Thermal and Fire Safety Management for Lithium-ion Batteries |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Denvid LAU | Artificial intelligence (AI) assisted reactive molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of cement hydration |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Jung In KIM | OpenBIM-based integrated urban road maintenance planning framework |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Gianni TALAMINI | Symbiotic Urbanism for a Horizontal Metropolis |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Lidai WANG | Wireless headmount photoacoustic tomography of the brain in free-moving animals |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Kannie Wai Yan CHAN | Imaging nose-to-brain drug delivery to brain tumors using multiple CEST MRI contrast |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Chenjie XU | The second generation of cryomicroneedles for transdermal cell delivery in cancer immunotherapy |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Lu LIU | Distributed optimal coordination of multiple dynamical systems under practical constraints and its applications |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Chia-Hung CHEN | Droplet Functional Barcoding Technology for Single-Cell Multidimensional Profiling Applied to Precision Immunotherapy |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Xinge YU | Intelligent skin-integrated haptic interface with multiple feedback modes |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Pakpong CHIRARATTANANON | Tensegrigami: Origami-Inspired Functional Resilient Structures for Aerial Robots |
| Biomedical Engineering | Professor Peng SHI | Closed-loop Hydrogel Electronics for Intelligent Neurotreatment |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Jiachen ZHANG | Computer-aided teleoperation system for millimetre-scale magnetic soft capsule robot in minimally invasive healthcare and targeted intervention |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr Yongjun SUN | Obstacle-incorporated spatiotemporal characterization of building solar-energy-potential and holistic design optimization of large-scale distributed PV systems in high-density cities |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr John Zhang LIN | Development and control of stratified micro-environments to maximise ventilation performance |
| Computer Science | Dr Weitao XU | Pushing the Boundaries of Wearable Sensing: A Tale of Two Modalities |
| Computer Science | Dr Jun HUANG | Tackling the Threat of Small Drones in Low Altitude Airspace Over Metropolises |
| Computer Science | Dr Hau-san WONG | Beyond data augmentation: Generative modeling of close-to-real training examples in machine learning through domain knowledge injection |
| Computer Science | Dr Gerhard Petrus HANCKE | Designing Distance-Bounding Protocols Resilient to Time-of-Flight Errors |
| Computer Science | Dr Nan GUAN | Managing Information Synchronicity in Real-Time Systems |
| Computer Science | Dr Jason Chun XUE | Towards Unified-storage-memory-enabled Mobile Devices |
| Computer Science | Professor Jianping WANG | Modelling and Handling Uncertainties in Autonomous Driving Systems |
| Computer Science | Professor Xiaohua JIA | Secure and Compressed Key-Value Store for Outsourced Data in Cloud Computing |
| Computer Science | Dr Zhenjiang LI | A Trinity Platform with Synthesized mmWaves for Human Motion Sensing |
| Computer Science | Professor Qingfu ZHANG | Few for Many: A Non-Pareto Approach for Many Objective Optimization |
| Computer Science | Dr Jing LIAO | Towards Controllable and Efficient Generation of High-Quality Visual Content with Transformers |
| Computer Science | Professor Cong WANG | Towards Bridging the Last-mile Gap of Multi-party Collaborative Statistics |
| Computer Science | Dr Junhui HOU | Deep Regular Geometry Representations for 3D Point Cloud Processing |
| Computer Science | Dr Man Hon CHEUNG | Strategic Information Disclosure and Recommendation for Crowdfunding |
| Computer Science | Dr Zhimeng YIN | Enabling Interference Resilience for Low-Power Wide-Area Networks through a Cross-Layer Framework |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Eric Wing Ming WONG | Comprehensive Policymaking Framework for Sustainable Epidemic Response and Resilience |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Chaoliang TAN | Growth of High-Quality Tellurium Thin Films via Substrate Engineering for High-Performance p-Type Field-Effect Transistors and Circuits |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Arindam BASU | NEUCOME: Neuromorphic Compression and Memory Management for next-generation Implantable Brain-machine Interfaces |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Sze Chun CHAN | FMCW Generation with Large Time-Bandwidth Product by Semiconductor Laser Cavity Tuning |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Moshe ZUKERMAN | Internet Cable Path Planning - Overcoming Challenges of Excess Data Availability or Missing Ground Motion Data |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Cheng WANG | An integrated millimeter-wave photonic phased array receiver system |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Man Hon WONG | Toward Electromagnetic Near-Field Suppression and Enhancement with Janus Antennas |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Michael Chi Kong TSE | Modeling and Design of Capacitive Power Coupling as a Practical Candidate for Wireless Power Transfer |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Bernard Chi Yuen CHIU | Carotid vessel wall and plaque segmentation and characterization in 3D ultrasound images by a dual-stream centreline-guided network and domain adaptation |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Hing Cheung SO | Advanced Factorization Approaches for Low-Rank Matrix Recovery |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kin-seng CHIANG | Compact electric-field sensor based on lithium-niobate waveguide grating |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Young Jin CHUN | Tera-Hybrid: Integration of Intelligent Reflecting Surface and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle on Terahertz enabled Hybrid Network |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Jie CHEN | Performance and Robustness of Multi-Agent Control Systems |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Hang WONG | Investigation of Wideband Antenna-In-Package Designs for 6G Communications |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Henry S H CHUNG | Use of Nonlinear Inductors in Source-Interface Converters to Compensate for Instability in DC Distribution Networks |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kwai Man LUK | Optically Transparent Antennas and Arrays for Wireless Connectivity |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Mu Ku CHEN | Meta-lens for Vacuum Ultraviolet Light |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Haoliang LI | Fighting AI-Camera-Captured Image Manipulation with AI-Enabled Solutions |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Chaoqian JIANG | Enhancement of the newly developed Nanocrystalline ribbon bidirectional wireless EV charging system |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Feng WANG | Multichromatic construction in self-powered interactive sensing display via triboelectrification-induced electroluminescence |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Derek HO | Room-temperature high-performance gas sensors based on grafting of functional groups on MXene |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Zhaoxuan WU | A Unified Model for Average Dislocation Behaviour in BCC Transition Metal Alloys |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Xiaoyan ZHONG | Atomic scale imaging of magnetic circular dichroism in collinear antiferromagnets |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Juan Antonio ZAPIEN | Cross-propagating Bloch surface waves: Guiding light to develop a photonic nano-CT scan analogue |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Yun CHI | Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Organoboron Materials and Hyperphosphorescence |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Hin-Lap YIP | Optical and Device Architecture Engineering for High-Performance White Perovskite Light-emitting Devices |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Qiyuan HE | On-chip electrocatalytic microdevice based on 2D semiconductors for CO2 reduction reaction |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Chunyi ZHI | Small dipolar molecules containing electrolytes for aqueous high-energy dual-ion batteries |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Wenjun ZHANG | Dilute aqueous/aprotic electrolytes with broad electrochemical windows for Zn-ion hybrid supercapacitors |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Alex Kwan Yue JEN | Molecular Engineering of 1D Hybrid Perovskites for Improving the Performance and Stability of Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Andrey ROGACH | Lasing from Chiral Microstructures Self-Assembled from Perovskite Quantum Dots |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Stephen Sai Wing TSANG | Development of an In-situ Defects Measurement to Investigate the Degradation in Multiple-ion Composite Perovskite Solar Cells |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Kaili ZHANG | Development of Graphene Oxide Induced Nanoscale Energetic Coordination Polymer Based Propellant for Microthruster |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Youfu LI | Event-Based 3D Human Pose Estimation and Tracking |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Wen Jung LI | A Flexible Sponge-based Vibration Sensor for Conversion of Neck-skin Vibration to Digital Voice |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Weiyin MA | A novel unified λ-subdivision scheme with optimal G2 Bézier extraction and optimal convergence for isogeometric analysis using unstructured meshes |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Zhengbao YANG | New Piezoceramic Manufacturing Method Using the Surface Tension Effect for Energy Harvesting and Sensing |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Jun LIU | Development of A New Microrobotic System for Cryopreservation of Reproductive Cells |
Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) (2022-23)
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Kim Meow LIEW | An upcycling solution to the paradox of clean energy development |
| Biomedical Engineering | Professor Jinlian HU | Fundamental Study Towards Real Spider Dragline Silk Performance Through Artificial Innovative Approach |
| Computer Science | Professor Cong WANG | Enabling Metadata-private and Accountable Networks at Scale |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Chi-Hou CHAN | An Enabling Technology for 6G Wireless Communications |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Cheng WANG | Large-scale Lithium Niobate Photonic Integrated Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing |
Germany/HK Joint Research Scheme
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Din-ping TSAI |
Plasmonic Nanoparticles Arrays for Functional Meta-devices |
NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Yang LU | Deep Strain Engineering of Structures and Functionalities of Twisted Bilayer Graphene |
ITC Grants
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Yu WANG | Artificial Intelligence Based Technology For Characterization Of Subsurface Rocks Surrounding Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) And TBM Automatic Control |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Bee Luan KHOO | Microfluidic Patient-Derived Tumor Models to Monitor Disease Response in Real-Time |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Xinge YU | Electronic Skin and Haptic Interfaces for Intelligent Prosthesis |
| Computer Science | Dr Junhui HOU | Wide FoV and High Resolution Video Perception and Efficient Coding |
| Computer Science | Dr Rynson W H LAU | An Automatic Coffee Capsule Classification System |
| Computer Science | Dr Linqi SONG | Development of a KOL Sentiment Analysis System in the Stock Market |
| Computer Science | Professor Jianping WANG | Mobile Application Engine: 5G Network Slice Management Platform |
| Computer Science | Professor Qingfu ZHANG | Investigation on Indoor Distributed System Planning Modeling and Fast Algorithm for 5G Mobile Communication Network |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Chaoqiang JIANG | Multi-Site Integrated Power Converters for DC Distribution Networks of Data Centers |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Chi Sing Andrew LEUNG | Global Illumination for Mobile Devices |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kwok Wa LEUNG | Transparent Planar Glass Resonator Antenna For Adding 5G Capabilities To Windows |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Wing Ming Eric WONG | A Smart Communication System for 5G-IoT Networks |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Johnny Chung Yin HO | Preparation of GaSb-based Artificial Visual Synapses with Ultra-low Energy Consumption |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Alex JEN | Development of Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cell with Safe-to-Use |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Alex JEN | Using High-Throughput Optical Model to Design High Performance Thin Film Structures for Next-Generation Glass Materials and Products |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Abhijit PRAMANICK | Multilayered Lead-free Textured Ceramics for Precision Actuator Applications |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Andrey ROGACH | Core/shell Perovskite Quantum Dots with Excellent Stability and Their Application to Light-emitting Displays |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Wenjun ZHANG | Three-dimensional Ni-based Layered Double Hydroxide/Vertical Graphene Array Electrodes for Integrating High-value Methanol Conversion and Energy-saving Hydrogen Production |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Xiaoyan ZHONG | Atomic Scale Manufacturing and Testing of Bit Patterned Media for Magnetic Recording by Aberration Corrected Electron Beam |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Walid DAOUD | Bio-based Synthetic Leather for the Automotive Industry |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jian LU | 4D Printed Cells' Mechanical Stress Loading Platform For Biomedical Research |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jian LU | Supra-nano Optical Protective Films On Ultra-thin Flexible Glass For Smart Electronic Devices |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jian LU | Tumor Microenvironment and Immune Cells in Biliary Tract Malignancies - Molecular Mechanism and Precision Modelling |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Steven WANG | Development of A Large Scale Outdoor Air-To-Water Harvester (OAH) for Various Applications |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Steven WANG | Development of A Novel Passive Super Hygroscopic System for Indoor Humidity and Apparent Temperature Control |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Steven WANG | Integrated In-situ Manufacturing and Application of Thermal Functional Structures of the Electrode for Power Batteries |
Environmental and Conservation Fund (ECF)
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Bee Luan KHOO | Identification and Removal of Small Microplastics from Wastewater Treatment Plants in Hong Kong |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Chaoqiang JIANG | Development of a New Nanocrystalline Alloy WPT4 High Energy-efficiency Wireless Charger for Electric Vehicle |
Green Tech Fund (GTF)
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Shiu Tong Thomas NG | Low Carbon Road Pavement by Maximising Material Circularity and Adopting Sustainable Materials |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Shu Hung Henry CHUNG | Smart Power Conditioners Using Second Life Electric Vehicle (EV) Batteries |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Alex JEN | Development of Printable Perovskite Solar Cells for Transformative Clean Energy and Sustainable Society |
Public Policy Research (PPR)
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Division of Building Science and Technology | Dr Lok Shun Apple CHAN | Investigating the Appropriateness of Adopting a Single Limit in Overall Thermal Transfer Value Regulation for Buildings in Hong Kong |
Other Government Grants
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Chung Wai Calvin KEUNG | Unlocking the Full Potential of Building Information Modelling with openBIM |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Walid DAOUD | Study on Energy-harvesting System from Main Entrances |
Mainland Grants
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Yu WANG | 基於稀疏地質勘探數據和機器學習的智慧地下空間信息模型關鍵技術研發 |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Lu LIU | Distributed Control of Multi-Agent Systems |
| Computer Science | Dr Ying WEI | Reliable Few-shot Learning towards Out-of-Distribution Tasks |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Chaoqiang JIANG | 工業機器人用高度集成化新一代動態無綫供電系統的開發與應用 |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kwok Wa LEUNG | 基於人工智能的大容量小型化5G小基站天綫系統 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Tao YANG | 基於機器學習和增材製造的納米顆粒增強型異構高熵合金的優化設計及高溫工程應用 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Tao YANG | Multicomponent Intermetallic Compound and Its High-Temperature Applications |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Xiaoyan ZHONG | 深納米尺寸磁記錄比特的原子級製造、調控與測量 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Yuntian ZHU | 寬溫域非均勻材料變形機制的原位散射研究及跨尺度模擬預測 |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Jun LIU | 應用於介入治療的三維增強現實導航技術 |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jiyun ZHAO | 一體化小型鉛鉍快堆關鍵技術研究及實驗驗證 |
Contract Research
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Advanced Design and Systems Engineering | Dr Andy CHOW | Intelligent Traffic Control with Use of IoT and Reinforcement Learning Technologies |
| Advanced Design and Systems Engineering | Professor Min XIE | 智能機器人可靠性工程的設計與研究方法及評估 |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Jianfeng Jeff WANG | Provision of Services for Micro-CT Imaging and Numerical Simulation of the Strength Testing of Soils |
| Biomedical Engineering | Professor Dongan WANG | Assembly of Functionally Integrated Human Spinal Cord Organoids |
| Computer Science | Professor Antoni Bert CHAN | Development of AI Models and Software for Classification of Recurrent Plots |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Kim Fung TSANG | Service for Studying GWIN Efficiency and Development of IoT Harmonization Standard for EMSD |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Hang WONG | 用於毫米波和太赫茲無線通訊的波束可重構天線的研發及產業化 |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Hang WONG | 雙波束矩形賦形場館天線研發與產業化 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Johnny Chung Yin HO | A Theoretical Investigation of Using High-entropy Alloy Nanostructures for High-performance for Highly-efficient Ammonia Electrosynthesis |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Lawrence WU | A Thermoplasmonic Lab-on-chip Microarray for In-vitro Diagnostics of SARS-CoV-2 RNAs |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Juan Antonio ZAPIEN | Provision of Fabrication and Testing of the Metalens for 3D Sensing Applications |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Chunyi ZHI | Highly Safe Large-Scale Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems with Long Lifespan and their Key Materials |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Takashi HIBIKI | Improvement of Constitutive Equations for Best Estimate Accident Analysis of Light Water Reactor |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Xingjian JING | New Generation Green and Healthy Jackhammers with Integrated Bio-Inspired Anti-Vibration Handles |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Wen Jung LI | AI Wearable Micro Data-logger for Motion Tracking and Performance Analytics - Swimming |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Wen Jung LI | AI Wearable Wireless Micro Motes for Real-time Motion Analytics of Gymnastics and Wushu Athletes |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Steven WANG | Development of an Aero-bike Integrated with a Novel Battery Pack |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jiyun ZHAO | Studies on Molten Corium Jet Fragmentation Behavior and Mechanism in a Severe Accident of Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jiyun ZHAO | 嚴重事故環境下冷凝傳熱與大氣污染擴散模型研究技術服務採購合同 |
| Division of Building Science and Technology | Dr Yongjun SUN | Provision of Decision Supporting System and Data Connection for Power Quality and Energy Management System (PQEMS) and Health Index of Electrical Systems |