RGC Funding Results of HKU IDS Professors in the Year 24/25 Exercise!
HKU IDS is very thrilled to announce that several of our HKU IDS management members, as well as HKU IDS scholars, on outstanding results on receiving external grants funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) in the capacity as Principal Investigators.
The list of awarded projects by HKU IDS faculty members is as follows:
RGC General Research Fund (GRF) 2024/25 Exercise
| Project Number | Department | PI | Project Title | Awarded Amount (HK$) | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17301024 | HKU IDS / Urban Planning & Design | Professor A.W. Kirkley | Dynamical coarse-graining of time series data over spatial networks for urban and climate science applications | 481,834 | 24 |
| 17616324 | Humanities | Professor B. Babic | The Legal and Ethical Foundations of Generative Models: Cooperation, Transparency, and Privacy | 478,230 | 36 |
| 17209324 | Computer Science | Professor P. Luo | New Methods for Large-scale Motion Prediction for Car Accident Avoidance via Adversarial Diffusion Models | 692,645 | 24 |
| 17300824 | Mathematics | Dr. Y. Xie | A study of algorithms and complexity to solve high-dimensional nonconvex optimization | 683,973 | 36 |
| 17310124 | Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering | Professor M.C. Yue | Single-loop First-order Algorithms for Large-scale (Distributionally) Robust Optimization | 910,742 | 36 |
RGC Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2024/25 Exercise
| Project Number | Department | PI | Project Title | Project Fund (HK$) | ECS Grants / Awards (HK$) | Grand Total Awarded (HK$) | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27207224 | HKU IDS / Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Professor Y. Yang | InfoBodied AI: Learning Mutual Information for Embodied AI | 828,739 | 50,000 | 878,739 | 36 |
| 27309624 | HKU IDS / Computer Science | Professor D. Zou | Advancing Sampling Methods via Diffusion-Based Monte Carlo | 781,657 | 50,000 | 831,657 | 36 |
Thank you all for making HKU IDS proud, and we look forward to seeing the fruitful outcomes of the captioned projects!
For the full summary of funding results of The University, please refer to the website below: https://www.rss.hku.hk/funding/funding-results