Funded Projects

Year	Project Title	Grant HK$
Year 2019/20	Project Title University Research Facilities for Basic and Applied Coastal Wetland Research in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area	Grant HK$ 9,302,438

Year	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Grant HK$
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr CAI Yancheng	Project Title Behaviour and design of high performance steel bolted connections at ambient and high temperatures	Grant HK$ 2,033,250
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Kevin HUNG King Fai	Project Title Development of Novel Quaternion Signal Processing and Feature Extraction Methods for the Monitoring and Early Detection of Mental Disorders in a Head-based Mobile Health System	Grant HK$ 800,960
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Tony LEE Chi Chung	Project Title Development of using retired batteries from electrical vehicles to build smart emergency power systems for buildings in Hong Kong	Grant HK$ 1,149,640
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Keith LEE Lap Kei	Project Title Fusing Intra-modality and Inter-modality Interactions with Self-attention for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis	Grant HK$ 859,610
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Yolanda LI Yaohan	Project Title Long-term adaptation strategy for climate-resilient coastal bridges subjected to extreme risk under typhoons	Grant HK$ 1,630,575
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Roy LI Zongxi	Project Title A Generic Label Extension and Enhancement Framework: from Emotion Domain to General Domain	Grant HK$ 1,165,690
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Emily TAM Wan Ting	Project Title Storage conditions and brewing methods for preserving catechin contents, reducing fungal contaminants, and minimizing mycotoxin residues in four types of tea in different packaging	Grant HK$ 887,210
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Charles TANG Chi Hung	Project Title Effects of microplastic ingestion on the growth of marine microplankton grazers and their grazing control on algal blooms	Grant HK$ 753,350
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Ernest TSANG Kin Wai	Project Title Developing an automatic shading control approach for improving visual comfort in urban areas	Grant HK$ 1,308,290
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Professor Roy VELLAISAMY Arul Lenus	Project Title Gunn diode-based Terahertz emitter using Topological Insulators	Grant HK$ 1,223,190
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Debby WANG Dan	Project Title Protein-ligand Binding Affinity Prediction Based on Grid Representation and Deep Learning: Paving the Way to Efficient Structure-based Drug Design	Grant HK$ 993,240
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Professor Philips WANG Fu Lee	Project Title Knowledge Alignment Framework Based on Contrastive Learning in Stock Prediction and other Emotion-Related Natural Language Processing Tasks	Grant HK$ 800,006
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Wyman WANG Weiming	Project Title Automatic and Accurate Evaluation of Placental Abnormalities via Multi-modal, Multi-task and Federated Semi-supervised Learning	Grant HK$ 1,264,590
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr WONG Shun Man	Project Title Metal-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization of (Hetero)arenes by using alterable P,O or P,N hemilabile benzimidazolyl phosphine ligands	Grant HK$ 762,550
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Emily WONG Sze Wan	Project Title Growth stimulating effect and related mechanisms of concentrated Chinese medicine granules of Astragalus membranaceus and Glycyrrhiza uralensis in Nile tilapia and mud carp under overcrowding stress	Grant HK$ 1,089,150
Year 2023/24	Principal Investigator Dr Steven XU Jingliang	Project Title Oxidative activity of mangrove leaf phenolics and their inhibition on growth and physiology of harmful algal species, and the underlying molecular mechanism	Grant HK$ 1,028,200
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr FU Yaru	Project Title A Study of Distributed Service-aware Wireless Cellular Networks (DS-WCNs): From User Demand Modeling to Performance Optimization	Grant HK$ 1,047,750
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr Fanny TANG Wai Fan	Project Title The Development of Recycled Oyster Shell Waste in Polymer-modified Green Concrete towards Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Environmental Benefits	Grant HK$ 1,717,000
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr John CHUI Kwok Tai	Project Title Developing Efficient Behaviour-based Semi-supervised Drivers Status Prediction Algorithm from Small-scale Labelled Dataset	Grant HK$ 974,150
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Professor Philips WANG Fu Lee	Project Title Representation and Extraction of Quantitative Information for Large-scale Unstructured Healthcare Text Analysis	Grant HK$ 826,950
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr Tony LEE Chi Chung	Project Title Development of Smart Analytic System with IoT Technology for Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff in Suburban Agricultural Area	Grant HK$ 1,183,975
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Professor Fred LEE Wang Fat	Project Title Modulation of Ichthyotoxicity of Karenia mikimotoi by Two Associated Alteromonas oceani Isolates (R2 and Y8) and Algal-bacterial Molecular Interaction Under Effects of Different Biotic and Abiotic Factors	Grant HK$ 1,390,400
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr Sidney CHAN Man Ngai	Project Title Study on the bioremediation of chlorpyrifos by two Scenedesmus species under different phosphorus concentrations	Grant HK$ 1,183,400
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr Emily WONG Sze Wan	Project Title Antihypertensive effects of traditional, aqueous and solvent extracts of Danshen, danshensu and Tanshinone IIA and their combination on Bevacizumab-induced hypertension	Grant HK$ 1,308,750
Year 2022/23	Principal Investigator Dr Ian MO Wing Yin	Project Title Combined chronic effects of dietary relevant concentrations of metal/loids and elevated water temperature on two economically important fish	Grant HK$ 1,194,854
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr CHEN Jianlin	Project Title Heterogeneous reaction kinetics of resazurin bio-reduction on paper-based microfluidics for bacteria detection and toxicity measurement	Grant HK$ 1,581,875
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr Patrick CHEN Xi	Project Title Interactions between urban microclimates and high-rise commercial buildings integrated with photovoltaic envelopes to optimize energy and indoor environmental performances	Grant HK$ 1,513,450
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr FU Yaru	Project Title An Investigation of Reliability-Aware Wireless Edge Caching Networks (WECNs) with Bundle Recommendation	Grant HK$ 810,850
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr Kevin HUNG King Fai	Project Title Modelling of Pupillary Muscles' Range Nonlinearity Effects on Pupil-based Evaluation of Autonomic Nervous System	Grant HK$ 761,400
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr Keith LEE Lap Kei	Project Title Multimodal Deep Learning for Rumor Detection on Social Media	Grant HK$ 1,248,950
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Prof. Fred LEE Wang Fat	Project Title Community Structure and Metaproteomics of Microorganism Assemblages Collected from Pneumatohpores of Avicennia marina in Mangrove Ecosystem	Grant HK$ 1,321,400
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr Wyman WANG Weiming	Project Title Accurate 6D Object Pose Estimation for Automatic Robotic Manipulation in Complex Industrial Environments	Grant HK$ 860,300
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr Sidney CHAN Man Ngai	Project Title Chitosan-flocculated microalgal biomass as a supplement of food waste fish feed and its enhancement effects to growth and immunity of Scortum barcoo	Grant HK$ 871,800
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr Crystal HAN Jie	Project Title Improved Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) management through Scientific IAQ monitoring and App Survey with an indication of energy demand reduction	Grant HK$ 1,386,950
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Professor Fred LEE Wang Fat	Project Title Mechanism Underlying Algicidal Activity of P4, a Novel Bacterium Isolated from an Algal Bloom in Hong Kong, against Icthtyotoxic Dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi	Grant HK$ 894,800
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Professor Andrew LUI Kwok Fai	Project Title Modelling the social aspects of interactive objects for pedestrian trajectory prediction in urban areas	Grant HK$ 832,700
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr MAK Shu Lun	Project Title The development of polylactide green composites with coffee grounds and tea leaf powder waste	Grant HK$ 1,303,000
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr Christie NG Ching Man	Project Title Investigation of metal oxide-based nanofiber as cost-effective catalyst for biodiesel synthesis	Grant HK$ 874,675
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr Ernest TSANG Kin Wai	Project Title An investigation of daylight-linked lighting control system in urban area by simulation approach and development of weather database for daylighting assessment	Grant HK$ 1,314,119
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr Emily WONG Sze Wan	Project Title New Development of Rapid and Easy Authentication Method of Single Drug Concentrated Chinese Medicine Granules using Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) coupled with Chemometrics	Grant HK$ 1,015,550
Year 2019/20	Principal Investigator Dr Panda CHAN Ping Lung	Project Title Microbiological and Metagenomic Analysis of the Microbiome and Antibiotics Resistance Genes in Manure from Organic Farms (Phase 1)	Grant HK$ 1,206,991
Year 2019/20	Principal Investigator Dr Crystal HAN Jie	Project Title Study on Microplastics Pollution and Its Interactions with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) in Mangrove Wetlands	Grant HK$ 999,450
Year 2019/20	Principal Investigator Professor Andrew LUI Kwok Fai	Project Title On effective utilization of small training sample for computer short answer grading based on semi-supervised clustering algorithms	Grant HK$ 894,800
Year 2019/20	Principal Investigator Dr MAK Shu Lun	Project Title The modelling and development of Twin-screw type extrusion system for making recycled filament materials in additive manufacturing	Grant HK$ 875,250
Year 2019/20	Principal Investigator Professor Philips WANG Fu Lee	Project Title Online Topic Modeling with Applications to Fine-grained Sentiment Analysis	Grant HK$ 1,605,450
Year 2018/19	Principal Investigator Dr Fred LEE Wang Fat	Project Title Molecular Responses of Fish Gills Experimentally Exposed to Ichthyotoxic Dinoflagellate Karenia mikimotoi	Grant HK$ 699,523
Year 2018/19	Principal Investigator Dr Douglas NG Kei Shing	Project Title Radial Basis Functions Method for Medical Imaging Problems	Grant HK$ 1,165,000
Year 2018/19	Principal Investigator Dr Eric SZE Tung Po	Project Title Investigating the Potential of Using Probiotic Bacteria in Making Traditional Chinese Foods with Health-Promoting Effects and Reduced Carcinogenicity	Grant HK$ 782,100
Year 2018/19	Principal Investigator Dr Steven XU Jingliang	Project Title Seasonal Succession of Microalgae and their Relationship with Environmental Factors in the Sources of Hong Kong Drinking Water	Grant HK$ 882,150

Year	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Grant HK$
Year 2021/22	Principal Investigator Dr Fanny TANG Wai Fan	Project Title Digital Revolution: Blockchain Technology for facilitating trusted data exchange for Jewellery Industry	Grant HK$ 447,910
Year 2020/21	Principal Investigator Dr Jimmy LI Chi Ho	Project Title The International Symposium on Virtual /Augmented Reality (V/AR) Inspection Training and Education in Modular Integrated Construction (MiC)	Grant HK$ 370,860

Year	Principal Investigator	Project Title
Year 2023	Principal Investigator Dr Andy CHEUNG Yuk Yam	Project Title Detection of Candida auris in fruits in Hong Kong and a study on the antifungal drug susceptibility pattern
Year 2023	Principal Investigator Dr FU Yaru	Project Title Developing Real-Time Intelligent Video Surveillance Systems: From Algorithm Design to Performance Optimization
Year 2023	Principal Investigator Dr Kevin HUNG King Fai	Project Title Quantum Machine Learning for Electroencephalogram Classification
Year 2023	Principal Investigator Dr RENOM Allan Patrick Stephane	Project Title Study of the cardiotoxic effect of red LEDs using zebrafish, and exploration of its usage for fish growth
Year 2023	Principal Investigator Dr Charles TANG Chi Hung	Project Title The effect of multiple stressors on the eco-physiology of a bloom-forming algal species
Year 2023	Principal Investigator Dr Debby WANG Dan	Project Title Geometric Deep Learning for Molecular Property Prediction
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr ASTUDILLO PLACENCIA Juan Carlos	Project Title Nature-based eco-engineering of seawalls by using recycled bamboo rods
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr CAI Yancheng	Project Title Cross-section Stability of High Performance Steel Tubular Members
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr CHEN Jianlin	Project Title Antifouling strategy: interaction between cerium oxide nanoparticles and microchannel surface
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr CHEUNG Ka Tik	Project Title The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the health of infected patients – a pilot study
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr John CHUI Kwok Tai	Project Title Enhancing the Performance of Deep Learning-based Models in Imbalanced Datasets for the Diagnosis of Cardiovascular Diseases
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr FU Yaru	Project Title Intelligent Data-driven Wireless Networks
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Kevin HUNG King Fai	Project Title Extracting Causal Relationship Between Emotion and Cause from Documents
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Stephen LAM Siu Kei	Project Title Optimization of Lighting control to improve energy efficiency in Buildings
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Carol LAU Po Ying	Project Title Development of Raman Spectra-Based Deep Learning Models for Monitoring Harmful Algal Boom Causative Species and Algal Toxins
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Keith LEE Lap Kei	Project Title A Hybrid Method for Community-Oriented Sentence Simplification with Pre-defined Grammar Rules and Simple Word Lists
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Keith LEE Lap Kei	Project Title Enhancing Transformer with Convolution to Jointly Model Long-distance and Short-distance Dependencies in Session-based Recommendation
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Yolanda LI Yaohan	Project Title Life-Cycle Performance and Cost Assessment of Civil Infrastructure Systems
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Roy LI Zongxi	Project Title Preliminary Study of Leveraging Abstract Meaning Representation in Natural Language Processing Tasks
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Ian MO Wing Yin	Project Title Effects of heavy metals and antibiotic pollution to the mangrove sediment microbiome and their functional diversities in western waters of Hong Kong
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Ian MO Wing Yin	Project Title The role of fish tanks in indoor dispersal of antibiotic resistance genes
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Stella NG Siu Mui	Project Title Design and Development of CO2 Reduction Catalysts to Mitigate Global Warming and Energy Crisis
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Stella NG Siu Mui	Project Title Development of CO2-Reduction Catalysts to Alleviate Ocean Warming and Acidification
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr PAN Min	Project Title Photocatalytic Inactivation/Disinfection of Biofilm Bacteria
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Emily TAM Wan Ting	Project Title Explore Chinese Medicinal Herbs for Anti-Extended Spectrum β-Lactamase Producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESBL-PE) Activity in One Health Approach
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Charles TANG Chi Hung	Project Title Microplastic ingestion on the growth and prey ingestion of a marine protozoa species
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Fanny TANG Wai Fan	Project Title Development of Advanced Monitoring System for Deep Excavation Works based on Time Lapse Ground Penetrating Radar (TLGPR) for Building and Construction Industry
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Alphonse TSANG Hin Fat	Project Title Enhancing marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning on the manmade rip-rap seawall at Tai Shue Wan
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Alphonse TSANG Hin Fat	Project Title Estuarine fish biodiversity and food web structure in southern and western Hong Kong waters
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Wyman WANG Weiming	Project Title Multi-site Placental Maturity Grading via Federated Learning
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Wyman WANG Weiming	Project Title Unsupervised Point Cloud Representation Learning with Geometric Embeddings
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr WEERASURIYA Asiri Umenga	Project Title Optimum passive design strategies for public rental housing (PRH) in Hong Kong to create indoor thermal comfort in changing climate
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Emily WONG Sze Wan	Project Title Growth stimulating and harmful algae protective effectives of Chinese medicine on medaka
Year 2022	Principal Investigator Dr Steven XU Jingliang	Project Title Facilities for Aquaculture Research in Metropolitan Aqua (FARM Aqua): for research and development of aquaculture in the Greater Bay Area (GBA)
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Sidney CHAN Man Ngai	Project Title Enhancement of lipid production by microalgae through different stresses
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr CHEN Jianlin	Project Title A real-time dual release strategy for bioorthogonal tumour imaging and curing
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr CHEN Jianlin	Project Title Antifouling performance of nanoparticles: toward surface properties in microfluidics
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr CHEUNG Ka Tik	Project Title Evaluate the prevalence and diversity of antibiotic resistance genes in Hong Kong Beaches water
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr John CHUI Kwok Tai	Project Title Smart City Data Collection and Generation for Open Data Repository
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Crystal HAN Jie	Project Title Study on the physic-chemical properties of nanoplastics in water
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Kevin HUNG King Fai	Project Title Deployment of renewable energy-based charging stations for powering scientific outposts and data collection kiosks in off-grid villages
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Kevin HUNG King Fai	Project Title Statistical Analyses Using SAS
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Tony LEE Chi Chung	Project Title Development of Smart Analytical System with IoT Technology for Renewable Energy Feed-in Tariff (FiT)
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Professor Fred LEE Wang Fat	Project Title Set-up of the Metropolitan Algal Repository and Supply (MARS): for conservation, research and commercial development in coastal environment of Greater Bay Area (GBA)
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Professor Fred LEE Wang Fat	Project Title Strengthen the capability and capacity for cutting-edge coastal wetland research
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Henry LEUNG Man Fai	Project Title High-Dimensional Data Analysis Based on Neural Computation
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Jimmy LI Chi Ho	Project Title A Study of Touchless Finger Platform for Smart Building Management
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Jimmy LI Chi Ho	Project Title An Integration Study on IoT Wearable Devices and Virtual Reality (VR) to Enhance Training Effectiveness in Building Services and Civil Engineering Industries
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr MAK Shu Lun	Project Title An Experimental Study and Safety Analysis on Pet Toys
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr MAK Shu Lun	Project Title Development of Integrative Platform for the Intelligent Asset Management and Power Maintenance Decision Supports
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Ian MO Wing Yin	Project Title Characterizing mangrove functions in Tai O – an integrated approach from environmental and cultural perspectives
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Ian MO Wing Yin	Project Title Comparing protein extraction methods for proteomics analyses of pearl oyster
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Ian MO Wing Yin	Project Title Investigating the effects of number of fish in a fish tank on metal accumulation
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Fanny TANG Wai Fan	Project Title Development of Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions on Preventive Maintenance and Environmental Control and Monitoring for Building Management
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Fanny TANG Wai Fan	Project Title Development of Sand-Free Plastering Solutions for Green Building
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Fanny TANG Wai Fan	Project Title Development of Surgical Face Mask Quality Control Solutions for Industrial Manufacturing
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Ernest TSANG Kin Wai	Project Title Development of Proactive Control Systems for Active and Passive Solar Designs based on Cloud Movement Prediction and its Implications on Built Environment
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Professor Philips WANG Fu Lee	Project Title Interdisciplinary Research Development on Smart City
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Professor Philips WANG Fu Lee	Project Title Learning for 3D Surface Denoising and Completion from Low-quality Point Clouds
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Wyman WANG Weiming	Project Title Image Dehazing and Deraining via Unsupervised Learning for Smart Outdoor Vision Systems
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Emily WONG Sze Wan	Project Title Danshen Extract and Danshensu on Bevacizumab-induced hypertension
Year 2021	Principal Investigator Dr Steven XU Jingliang	Project Title Growth inhibition mechanism of mangrove leaf on harmful algal species in coastal water based on ecotoxicological approaches

Funded Projects

Funded projects under Institutional Development Scheme (IDS)

Funded projects under Faculty Development Scheme (FDS)

Funded projects under Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS)

Other Funded Research Projects