GRF / ECS Award (2019-20)
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Qiusheng LI | Investigation of tropical cyclone wind characteristics and the effects of extreme winds on super-tall buildings |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Wai Ming LEE | Development of a Dynamic Relative Competitive-Cooperative Behavioural Model for Building Evacuation Simulation |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Konstantinos SENETAKIS | Experimental micromechanical study on the influence of environment-soil and fluid-soil interactions at the grain contact |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Hin Wa Danny LI | Development of comprehensive solar radiation and daylight illuminance datasets by ameliorating the prediction models and categorizing standard skies using machine learning techniques |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Gongsheng HUANG | Develop and investigate decoupled radiant cooling mechanism |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Yu WANG | Development of Machine Learning Methods for Planning of Geotechnical Site Investigation and Analytics of Site |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Alvin Chi Keung LAI | Resuspension of Bacteria from Walking Activities |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Professor Siu Ming LO | On the development of a smart elevator evacuation system |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Chung Man Carmen TSUI | Shaping Architectural Modernism in Colonial Hong Kong: The Building Works of the Public Works Department from the 1930s to the 1970s |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Jung In KIM | Q-learning-based schedule generation for excavating hard rock tunnels under resource constraints |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Gianni TALAMINI | Towards sustainable peri-urbanization through stream renaturation: how farming improves following the upgrading of watercourses |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Ho Fai Andy CHOW | Dynamic traffic signal timings for urban bus services in congested road networks with GPS data |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Pakpong CHIRARAT TANANON | Reconfigurable Quadrotors with Energetically Efficient Multimodal Locomotion |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Raymond Hiu-wai LAM | Microfluidic single-cell isolation and measurement for spatial profiling of cytokines secreted from different immune cell subtypes |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Lu LIU | Distributed Tracking Control of Networked Heterogeneous Dynamic Systems by Pure Output Feedback |
| Biomedical Engineering | Professor Lixin DONG | Memoristic Ambient Oxygen Nanosensors for Medical Microrobotic Agents |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr John Zhang LIN | Coupled Optimization of Non-Uniform Air Distributions and Air Conditioning System |
| Computer Science | Professor Jun WANG | Collaborative Neurodynamic Approaches to Portfolio Optimization |
| Computer Science | Professor Xiaohua JIA | A Secure and Verifiable P2P Storage Framework with Dynamic Encrypted Search using Blockchain |
| Computer Science | Dr Minming LI | Budget Feasible Facility Location Games: From Agents to Facilities |
| Computer Science | Professor Kay Chen TAN | Towards Advanced Transfer Learning in Complex Environments |
| Computer Science | Professor Tak Wu Sam KWONG | Intelligent Ultra High Definition Video Encoder Optimization for Future Versatile Video Coding |
| Computer Science | Professor Lusheng WANG | Efficient Algorithms for Identification of Modified Proteoforms Using Top-Down Mass Spectra |
| Computer Science | Professor Jianping WANG | Task Allocation and Coding Design for Secure Coded Edge Computing |
| Computer Science | Dr Cong WANG | Towards Secure and Privacy-assured Truth Discovery from the Crowd |
| Computer Science | Dr Junhui HOU | Learning based Hyperspectral Image Reconstruction and Discriminative Representation |
| Computer Science | Dr Jason Chun XUE | Multi-layer Compression for Lean Flash Storage |
| Computer Science | Dr Jing LIAO | A Deep Learning Pipeline to Restore Images or Videos with Unknown and Mixed Defects |
| Computer Science | Dr Linqi SONG | Machine Learning Over Wireless: An Application in Wireless Recommender Systems |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Peter Wai Ming TSANG | Enhanced quality holographic projection system |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Kwok Leung CHAN | Visual information understanding framework with human perception model and machine learning |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr En-yuan Joshua LEE | Ultrasonic Power Transfer based on Aluminium Nitride Piezoelectric Diaphragm Architectures for Deep Wireless Powering of Sub-Millimetre Biomedical Implants |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Sze Chun CHAN | Chaotic Timing for High-Speed Photonic Random Bit Generation |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Chi Hou CHAN | 3D Printed Lens Antennas for a 3D Terahertz Imaging Platform |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Henry S H CHUNG | Architecture for Grid-connected Inverters with Power Semiconductor Filters |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Yanni SUN | Characterizing quasispecies of known and novel viruses from metagenomic data |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Lai Hang Leanne CHAN | Aperiodic stimulation patterns for visual implants |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Ping LI | Massive MIMO Systems with Low- Resolution Analogue to Digital Conversion |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Lin DAI | Toward Efficient and Fair Coexistence in Unlicensed Bands: A Unified Analytical Framework for Optimal Access Design |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Stella W PANG | Three-Dimensional Scaffolds with Porous Membrane for Cell Separation and Migration Through Small Openings |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Ho Man CHAN | Building a Machine Learning-Driven High- Content Screening Platform for Fish Behavioral Studies: Investigation of the Influence of Millimeter-Wave Radiation and Chemical Library on the Light-Induced Locomotion of Zebrafish Larvae |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kwok Wa LEUNG | Design of Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using Dielectric Nanoparticle Paste for Wireless Communications |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kwai Man LUK | A wideband high-gain terahertz antenna based on the open resonator |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Edwin Yue bun PUN | Rare earth doped core-shell structure bismuth vanadate nanofibers with enhanced photocatalytic performance |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Xin GAI | A Mid-infrared Spectroscopic Microscope Utilizing On-chip Supercontinuum Generation |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Cheng WANG | Integrated lithium niobate photonics for millimeter-wave applications |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Man Hon WONG | Passive and Active Metasurface-Enabled Mm-wave Antenna Systems |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Feng WANG | Constructing deep ultraviolet microlasers through photon upconversion in heavily- doped nanocrystals |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr A L Roy VELLAISAMY | Development of flexible MEMS pressure sensors using hierarchical surface structures for texture roughness identification. |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor David Joseph SROLOVITZ | Fundamentals of Metastability Engineering for Structural Materials |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Chain Tsuan LIU | Alloy design of novel L12-type high- entropy intermetallic alloys (HEIAs) for advanced structural applications |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Derek HO | CMOS microsystem for portable environmental gas monitoring applications |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Juan Antonio ZAPIEN | Photonic, plasmonic, and magnetically coupled responsive photonic crystals for new sensing strategies |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Yun CHI | Near-Infrared Emitting Platinum(II) Phosphors and Fabrication of OLEDs |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Jun FAN | Molecular Insights into the Interactions between Lipid Membranes and Two- dimensional Nanomaterials |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Andrey ROGACH | Anisotropic Carbon Nanorods with Polarized Emission for Two-Photon Fluorescence Bioimaging |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Wenjun ZHANG | Doped diamond films with nanostructured surfaces for ammonia synthesis via electrochemical nitrogen fixation under ambient conditions |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Dangyuan LEI | Unidirectional hot-electron injection induced out-of-plane second-harmonic generation in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Zhaoxuan WU | Physics and Mechanism-based Predictive Modelling of Plastic Deformation and Fracture in Ti and Ti-6Al-4V Alloy |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Zhiyuan ZENG | In Operando Multimodal Characterization of Electrode Electrolyte Interfaces for next-generation energy applications |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Yong YANG | Development of Strong-yet-Ductile Nanograined Alloys with Intergranular Amorphous Films Based on Metallic-Glass Templates |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Weiyin MA | Isogeometric collocation methods with structured constraints for PDE-based and field-aligned analysis suitable parameterization |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Youfu LI | Attention-Guided Robust Gaze Tracking for Enhanced Human-Robot Interactions |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Jiyun ZHAO | Investigation on Critical Heat Flux enhancement with nanocoated surface under different orientation |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jian LU | Study the plastic deformation mechanism and thermal stability of ultra-strong /ductile nano-dual-phase alloys |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Patrick Pat Lam WONG | New role of oil dewetting to promote lubrication under starved or limited lubricant supply conditions |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Zuankai WANG | Developing novel triboelectric nanogenerators with slippery liquid interfaces |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Shijun ZHAO | Effects of doping elements on the irradiation performance of concentrated solid-solution alloys (high entropy alloys) |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Zhengbao YANG | Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting in the Real Environment with Multiple Excitations |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Professor Min XIE | Importance analysis and maintenance decisions of complex systems with dependent components |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Professor Hanxiong LI | Parallel Models based Spatial Abnormal Detection for Distributed Parameter Process |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Dr Lishuai LI | Data Intelligence & Fuel Efficiency: A Data- Driven Approach to Manage Uncertainties in Flight Fuel Planning for Airlines |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Dr Inez Maria ZWETSLOOT | Effect of aggregation when monitoring social networks |
Collaborative Research Fund
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Dangyuan LEI | Non-Hermitian Systems in Optics and Acoustics |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Dangyuan LEI | High Performance Photovoltaic Cells Integrating Perovskite and Polymers - Materials, Devices and Mechanism Studies |
France/HK Joint Research Scheme
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Professor Min XIE |
Modelling and Assessment of the Joint Effect of Ageing, Maintenance and Heterogeneity on Repairable System Reliability |
Germany/HK Joint Research Scheme
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | Dr Minming LI | Scheduling with Resource-dependent Processing Speeds & Uncertainty |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Andrey ROGACH | Near-and Mid-Infrared Colloidal Semiconductor 2D Nanomaterials |
Research Impact Fund
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Ho Fai Andy CHOW | Reliability-based Intelligent Transportation Systems in Urban Road Network with Uncertainty |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Heung Fai LAM | Enhancing Safety, Punctuality and Ride Comfort of Railway Transportation: From Local Metro System to Global High-speed Rail Network |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Denvid LAU | New Prefabricated Composite Pavement Systems for Sustainable and Smart-city Development of Hong Kong: Key Scientific and Engineering Solutions |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr Tin Tai CHOW | Increasing the Resilience to the Health Impacts of Extreme Weather on Elderly People under Future Climate Change |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr Kwong Fai Square FONG | Increasing the Resilience to the Health Impacts of Extreme Weather on Elderly People under Future Climate Change |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Ho Man CHAN | A Wearable for Post-stroke Rehabilitative Multi-muscle Stimulation Inspired by the Natural Organization of Neuromuscular Control |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Henry S H CHUNG | Center for Wide-bandgap Semiconductor Power Electronics Research |
RGC-Joint Laboratory Funding Scheme
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Wen Jung LI | Development of 3D Integrated Robotics and Sensing Structures using Multi-layered Nano-ink Circuit Deposition |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jian LU | System for 2/3/4D Additive Manufacturing of Supra-nano Metallic Materials for Biomedical and Lightweight Structure Applications |
ITC Grants
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Ho Fai Andy CHOW | Tools for Assessing and Optimising Transit Network Design with an Application to Hong Kong LRT Network |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Denvid LAU | Trial: Experimental Validations of Our Developed Tree Defect Detection Device Using Local Trees |
| Computer Science | Dr Wing Kwong CHAN | Ethereum Smart Contract Fuzz Testing Service for Security Vulnerability Detection |
| Computer Science | Dr Chi Yin CHOW | Building Sophisticated Deep Learning Framework for Text Sentiment Analysis |
| Computer Science | Dr Wai Jacky KEUNG | Deep-learning based Artificial Intelligence Financial Portfolio Advisory Platform |
| Computer Science | Professor Chong Wah NGO | Sport Video Analysis and Retrieval |
| Computer Science | Dr Shiqi WANG | Intelligent Mobile Video Transcoding System in Cloud |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Bernard Chi Yuen CHIU | Detection, Localization and Assessment of Prostate Cancer Lesions Using Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Henry S H CHUNG | Smart Split Charger |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Alex JEN | Development of Highly Efficient Perovskite/Polymer Hybrid Solar Cells |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Alex JEN | Rational Design of Efficient and Stable Transporting Materials for High Efficiency Metal Halide Perovskite Solar Cells and Large-Scale Fabrication |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr A L Roy VELLAISAMY | Sensing Device for Six Common Phthalates in Plastic |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Juan Antonio ZAPIEN | Versatile Polarimetric Platform for Analytical Optical Testing |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Wen Jung LI | A MEMS-based Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) System with Super-resolution Microlens for Enhanced Structured-light 3D Imaging and Mapping |
| Mechanical Engineering | Professor Jian LU | Dual-phase Nanostructured Optical Hard Coatings |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Patrick Pat Lam WONG | Gypsum Block Wall Laying System |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Jiyun ZHAO | Advanced Model Reference Thermal Sensing Technique for Detecting Rusty Gas Pipes Embedded Inside Concrete Walls |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Dr Wai Tat Peter TSE | An Innovative System to Perform Health Management and Predict Remaining Useful Life for Critical Equipment that Serves Smart Cities (An artificial-intelligence- and smart-city-based project) |
Other Government Grants
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Ho Fai Andy CHOW | Road Network Assessment and Optimisation with Air Pollution Performance Measures |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | The Modernist Public Markets in Hong Kong | |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Peng SHI | The Development of Upconversion-based Wireless Optogenetics as an All-optical Therapeutic Strategy to Study and Treat Parkinson's Disease |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr Lok Shun Apple CHAN | Investigation on Incorporating Adjacent Shading Effect into Overall Thermal Transfer Value Regulation for Energy-efficient Building Design in Hong Kong |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Wing Ming Eric WONG | Design, Modelling, Evaluation, and Optimization of an Efficient and Cost-effective Intensive Care Network in Hong Kong |
Mainland Grants
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Professor Min XIE |
核電站智能故障診斷方法研究 |
Croucher Foundation Research Grant
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Andrey ROGACH |
Perovskite Nanocrystals Enabled Devices |
Contract Research
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Jung In KIM | Investigation of Building Information Modelling (BIM) Adoption in Hong Kong by Survey |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Jung In KIM | Identification of Challenges in the Implementation of Building Information Modeling (BIM) for Infrastructure Development Projects |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Heung Fai LAM | Structural Vibration Monitoring and Its Application in Structural Health Monitoring |
| Architecture and Civil Engineering | Dr Yiu Tommy LO | Technical Performance Review of the MatrixDeck System |
| Biomedical Engineering | Dr Yajing SHEN | 面向柔性薄膜器件的二維材料電磁特性研究 |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr Ming Lun Alan FONG | Study and Installation of Condensing Water System of Immersion Cooling System |
| Building Science and Technology | Dr Yongjun SUN | Study on Immersion Cooling System for Data Centre |
| Computer Science | Dr Junhui HOU | Accurate Light Field Depth Estimation via Deep Learning |
| Computer Science | Dr Ka Chun WONG | The Research on DNA Computing Architecture and Key Issues |
| Computer Science | Dr Hong XU | Minimizing Network Footprint in Distributed Deep Learning |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Chak Chung Ray CHEUNG | In-network Computation FPGA Platform Research Project |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Kwok Wa LEUNG | Investigation of Microwave and Millimeter-wave Systems |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Lai Man PO | Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) Based Image and Video Generations for Media Applications |
| Electrical Engineering | Dr Yixuan YUAN | Provision of Services for the Development of Capsule Endoscopy Video Analaysis Algorithm |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Chih-Ching HUANG | 新型輕質高熵合金及其表面處理技術項目 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Sai Wing TSANG | Development of Novel Molecular Sensing Method Based on Nano-pore Structured Platform |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Professor Lawrence WU | Engineering Analysis of Railway Materials and Structure |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Chunyi ZHI | Zinc Based Batteries |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Chunyi ZHI | 基於納米導電橡膠傳感技術的橋樑智能支座健康監控系統研發項目- -納米導電橡膠傳感技術研發子題 |
| Materials Science and Engineering | Dr Chunyi ZHI | 橋樑結構智能健康監測和安全評估系統研發—智能型壓力監測橋樑支座開發子題 |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Kwok Yan LI | Improvement of Mechanical Properties and Oxidation Resistance of A1CrN-based Coatings |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Zhengbao YANG | 基於身體運動能量獲取技術的自供電可穿戴設備研發項目 |
| Mechanical Engineering | Dr Jiyun ZHAO | 放射性物質劑量強度評估模型及輻射監控系統研發 |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Dr Hoi Shou Alan CHAN | Human Factors of Psychological Assessment of Bus Drivers |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Dr Hoi Shou Alan CHAN | An Integrative Study of Human Factors, Safety and Health on Risk Taking of Industrial Workers |
| Systems Engineering and Engineering Management | Dr Hongyi SUN | B2B環境下製造供應系統的重新設計和改造 |
Donations for Research Projects
| Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title |
|---|---|---|
| Computer Science | Dr Wai Jacky KEUNG | Deep Probabilistic Reasoning and Statistical Analysis Using Deep-Learning |
| Computer Science | Dr Wai Jacky KEUNG | Deep-learning based Software Engineering for Practical Software Analytics |
| Computer Science | Dr Jing LIAO | 3D-Guided Video Face Shape Manipulation |
| Computer Science | Dr Linqi SONG | Event-based Natural Language Understanding |
| Electrical Engineering | Professor Lin DAI | Optimal Network Decomposition for Next-Generation Mobile Communication Systems: From Theory to Practice |