ACE faculty members awarded prestigious grants from the 2025-2026 General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) by the Research Grants Council
Congratulations to our outstanding researchers!
We're thrilled to announce that our faculty members have been awarded prestigious grants from the 2025-2026 General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) by the Research Grants Council.
The list of funded projects is as follows:
| General Research Fund (GRF) |
• Prof. Chee Wah LIM: “In-Situ Tests with Analytical Modeling and Computation for Natural Meta-forestation and Interaction of Ground-Resonators on Seismic Wave Propagation and Umklapp Scattering” – 1.01M
• Prof. Qiusheng LI: “Multi-scale modeling of extreme urban wind conditions under climate change” – 1.17M
• Prof. Gongsheng HUANG: “Enhancing Building Energy Flexibility with a Model Predictive Power Control of Latent Heat Thermal Energy Storage Systems” – 1.08M
• Prof. Jane Wei-Zhen LU: “Development of an Urban Building Energy Model Based on Computer Vision and Machine Learning” – 0.96M
• Prof. Shiu Tong Thomas NG: “A spatial intelligence enabled framework to digitalize and reconfigure confined workplaces and facilities for improved safety, reliability and resilience” – 1.17M
• Prof. Guoyang LU: “Multiscale Characterization of Collaborative Regeneration in Steel Slag and Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement Materials towards Advancing Sustainable Warm Mix Paving Solutions” – 1.17M
• Prof. Paulina Maria NEISCH: “Resilient Urban Design: Evidence-Based Frameworks for Enhancing Urban Adaptability in the Face of Crises.” – 0.85M
| Early Career Scheme (ECS) |
• Prof. Mingzhu WANG: “Integrating mental stress evaluation and motion prediction for enhancing safety in human-robot collaboration on dynamic construction sites” – 0.85M
• Prof. Long CHEN: “FireEye: Digital Twinning Old Buildings for Fire Safety Inspection based on Semantic visual SLAM and Graph Models” – 0.84M
• Dr. Xiangping XIAN: “Development of wet-cast green concrete prepared from waste materials through multiple carbon sequestrations” – 0.85M
• Prof. Yu HU: “What’s going on in the office? Exploring the future of hybrid working for China’s creative workforce” – 1.08M
Your achievement is a testament of ACE’s academic and research excellence. We look forward to seeing the impact of your projects soon!
