Five teams of data science young researchers awarded total HK$2.5m from HKIDS Early Career Research Grants
Hong Kong Institute for Data Science (HKIDS) is pleased to announce the five winners of Early Career Research Grants (ECRG), with each project to receive a funding of HK$500,000 for two years. A panel of six judges from the HKIDS management team discussed and reviewed the proposals and decided to fund these five impactful research projects:
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Project |
Principal Investigator (PI) |
Co-Principal Investigator |
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1. Nonparametric Option Pricing: Theory and Empirics |
Dr Xiao Qiao |
Dr Qi Wu |
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2. Practical Dynamic Assortment Optimization |
Dr Yu Yang |
Prof Yanzhi Li |
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3. Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearings under Small Sample |
Dr Yining Dong |
Dr Lishuai Li |
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4. Unraveling the Innovation Ecosystem of Artificial Intelligence |
Dr Ke Qing |
Dr Qingpeng Zhang |
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5. Unified Multi-modal Multi-task Learning Paradigm for Smart Cities |
Dr Xiangyu Zhao |
Dr Zijun Zhang |
Launched by HKIDS, the Early Career Research Grants aims to encourage young SDSC faculty members to conduct project-based collaborative research to solve data-science challenges that might lead to extramural grants. The ECRG provides funding for research projects in the specific areas:
- Bioinformatics & health science
- Financial and Business analytics
- Urban computing and Smart Cities
- Carbon neutrality and sustainability
- Image processing and NLP
- Predictive health maintenance
- Smart manufacturing
- Machine learning theory and algorithms
- Semantic and interpretable AI
- Other important areas in line with data science and AI