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Congratulations to Professor Edmund CHENG on the successful NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme (Conference Grant) application!

30 Jun 2026 (Tue)
We are pleased to share that Professor Edmund W. CHENG's project, "The Inaugural Annual Conference on AI, Large Language Models, and the Social Sciences," has been awarded the NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme (Conference Grant). The project is led by Professor CHENG, together with Professor Xun PANG of Peking University, and is funded at HK$241,000 for a 12-month period. It will culminate in a conference to be held at CityUHK on 14-16 October 2027, in collaboration with Peking University and the University of Oxford, and is expected to produce timely publications on AI and social science research.
 
This achievement reflects PIA’s continued commitment to impactful research and scholarly collaboration.
 
Congratulations once again to Professor CHENG!