Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector 2026/27 - Funding Results
FACULTY DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (FDS)
| No. | Project Reference No. | Project Title | Principal Investigator | Institution | Funding Period (Months) | Amount Awarded by RGC (Inclusive of On-costs) (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | UGC/FDS16/P07/26 | 3D Additive Manufacturing of Plasmonic Chips for Tunable, High-Sensitivity, and Low-Cost Sensing | Dr ASSI Dani Samer | HKMU | 24 | 420,885 |
| 2 | UGC/FDS16/M01/26 | Assessing the integration of pathogen removal materials into eco-engineered seawalls for coastal water quality enhancement | Dr ASTUDILLO PLACENCIA Juan Carlos | HKMU | 30 | 342,685 |
| 3 | UGC/FDS16/H29/26 | Reconnecting Lives: Advancing Older Adults to Overcome Loneliness through ‘VR Nature + Scent’ Immersive Multisensory Experiences | Dr AU Doreen Wing-han | HKMU | 24 | 495,658 |
| 4 | UGC/FDS25/E12/26 | Trustworthy Settlement for Data Delivery: Fair Exchange, Batch Verification, and Audit Trails | Dr CAI Cailing | THEi | 24 | 645,805 |
| 5 | UGC/FDS16/E19/26 | Experimental and numerical investigations on perforated cold-formed high strength steel tubular columns subjected to axial compression | Dr CAI Yancheng | HKMU | 36 | 737,956 |
| 6 | UGC/FDS16/M08/26 | Boosting motor learning for children with autism: Comparing the effects of errorless, trial-and-error, and hybrid practice on movement performance, perceived competence, and play behaviours | Dr CAPIO Catherine Mamaid | HKMU | 24 | 712,865 |
| 7 | UGC/FDS15/H11/26 | Bidirectional Language Contact between Northern Tujia and Xiangxi Chinese Dialects: A Microtypological Study | Dr CHAN Kevin Kin-wing | Shue Yan | 24 | 331,358 |
| 8 | UGC/FDS25/M05/26 | Pharmacological Elucidation of Multifunctional Evodiamine Derivatives for Handling Insomnia via Orexin Receptor Modulation | Dr CHAN Shun-wan | THEi | 36 | 699,711 |
| 9 | UGC/FDS16/H24/26 | Metaverse-Based AI-Driven VR-Enhanced Education Nexus (MAVEN): A Novel Approach to Presentation Skills Enhancement | Dr CHAN Venus Wing-man | HKMU | 36 | 650,704 |
| 10 | UGC/FDS16/E03/26 | Body Sway and Shooting Performance in Archery: A Comparative Study of Archers with Unilateral Below-Knee Amputation, Para-Archers with Lower Limb Impairments, and Non-Disabled Archers | Dr CHAN Wing-nga | HKMU | 24 | 708,150 |
| 11 | UGC/FDS13/H06/26 | Sealing Immortality: A Study of 19th-Century Manuscript Seal Impression Catalogues | Dr CHANG Huilin | Chu Hai | 36 | 352,978 |
| 12 | UGC/FDS25/E06/26 | Exploration of an Intelligent Construction Setting Out Approach through AI-Integrated Robotic Laser | Dr CHANG Siwei | THEi | 36 | 932,178 |
| 13 | UGC/FDS24/M03/26 | Validation of Intracranial Artery Calcification Quantified by Automated Segmentation and Machine Learning as a Novel Imaging Biomarker for Stroke Reperfusion Therapy | Dr CHEN Fiona Xiangyan | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 639,010 |
| 14 | UGC/FDS24/B01/26 | The Impact of Psychological Gender Identities of Masculinity and Femininity on Online Privacy Concerns and the Consequent Consumer Behaviours | Dr CHEN Nuoya | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 401,278 |
| 15 | UGC/FDS24/H07/26 | Earth, Body, Voice: Yi Poetry and the Geopoetics of Knowing | Dr CHEN Shu | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 326,873 |
| 16 | UGC/FDS14/B06/26 | Distress-Driven Diversity: Gender Bias in Fund Manager Selection During Crises | Dr CHEONG Sophia Chiyoung | HSUHK | 24 | 492,783 |
| 17 | UGC/FDS14/B11/26 | Beyond Resources: Micro-Level Governance in University Deep-Tech Venture Teams | Dr CHEUNG Jessie Sze-ting | HSUHK | 24 | 493,330 |
| 18 | UGC/FDS16/M26/26 | The effects of human serum albumin, antibiotic combinations, and biofilm formation on the minimum inhibitory concentration of gepotidacin in carbapenem-resistant Escherichia coli and their roles in the emergence of gepotidacin resistance | Dr CHEUNG Yuk-yam | HKMU | 36 | 772,560 |
| 19 | UGC/FDS16/B07/26 | Building Esports Tourism Destination Image (eSTDI) in Hong Kong: Scale Development and Links to Tourist Perceptions and Behaviours | Dr CHIU Weisheng | HKMU | 24 | 316,661 |
| 20 | UGC/FDS16/H13/26 | Bridging the researcher-practitioner divide: A study of language teacher cognition in second language vocabulary teaching | Dr CHUNG Hiu-yui | HKMU | 24 | 572,979 |
| 21 | UGC/FDS14/B09/26 | Political Polarization and Blended Finance | Dr FAN Kwok-yuen | HSUHK | 30 | 271,065 |
| 22 | UGC/FDS13/H15/26 | The Globality of Immortal Poetry: Translation, Reception, and Dissemination of Li Bai’s and Du Fu’s Poetry in the Portuguese-Speaking World | Dr FONG Keng-seng | Chu Hai | 36 | 550,686 |
| 23 | UGC/FDS16/H57/26 | Mobility and Imperial Power: Rethinking Tang Openness through Travel Control | Dr FONG Victor Kam-ping | HKMU | 36 | 479,846 |
| 24 | UGC/FDS24/E01/26 | Enhanced Spray Cooling by Hierarchical Micro/Nano Structured Surfaces and Development of a Compact Spray-based Heat Sink | Dr FU Sau-chung | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 595,061 |
| 25 | UGC/FDS16/E23/26 | Life-Cycle Adaptive Orchestration and Feedback-Driven Evolution for Faithful GenAI in 6G Mobile Edge Intelligence Networks | Dr FU Yaru | HKMU | 36 | 597,093 |
| 26 | UGC/FDS16/B21/26 | Cross-Modal Tourism Analytics for Real-Time Preference Monitoring and Demand Forecasting | Dr GAO Bella Huicai | HKMU | 30 | 558,713 |
| 27 | UGC/FDS16/B28/26 | Purpose-Based Approach for Promoting Near-Expired Foods | Dr GE Lin | HKMU | 30 | 266,900 |
| 28 | UGC/FDS14/B05/26 | Regulating the appointments of female directors: diversity, tokenism, and mandatory appointments | Dr GOH Lisa | HSUHK | 30 | 298,944 |
| 29 | UGC/FDS13/B06/26 | Falling Out of Synchrony: Understanding Hospitalized Employees’ Leave and Return to Work | Dr GU Jingyang | Chu Hai | 36 | 375,759 |
| 30 | UGC/FDS15/H05/26 | Improving access to school-based mental health support: Barriers and enablers from a multi-stakeholder perspective | Dr HARRISON Mark Gregory | Shue Yan | 24 | 609,072 |
| 31 | UGC/FDS13/B02/26 | Information Advantage vs. Strategic Caution: How Common Auditors Shape CAM Narratives After M&A Announcements | Dr HE Miao | Chu Hai | 36 | 339,019 |
| 32 | UGC/FDS15/H03/26 | The People’s Cinema: Cultural Politics, Economic Dynamics, and Audience Agency in Mao-era China (1949-1966) | Prof HE Qiliang | Shue Yan | 36 | 418,758 |
| 33 | UGC/FDS16/E02/26 | Emotional Design in Action: Enhancing Creative Capacities in Design Education | Dr HO Amic Garfield | HKMU | 36 | 527,575 |
| 34 | UGC/FDS24/E11/26 | Multi-Modal Stability of High-Penetrated Heterogeneous Converter-Interfaced Power Sources: Modeling Framework and Interaction Mechanism | Dr HU Yong | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 780,136 |
| 35 | UGC/FDS14/B26/26 | How Smart Objects Shape Health Decisions: The Role of Ingroup Entitativity of Consumer–Smart Object Team and Perceived Vulnerability | Dr HUANG Lan | HSUHK | 30 | 408,684 |
| 36 | UGC/FDS24/E05/26 | An All-in-one Flexible Airflow Sensor Based on Laser-induced Graphene for Detecting Multiple Flight Parameters of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles | Dr HUANG Libei | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 778,816 |
| 37 | UGC/FDS16/B31/26 | Dialectal Cues in AI-Driven Marketing: Activating Local Identity and Shaping Consumer Preferences | Dr HUANG Xun | HKMU | 24 | 344,397 |
| 38 | UGC/FDS17/H03/26 | Nurturing Young Children’s Creative Problem-Solving Skills: Examining the Effects of Early Parental Influences and Children’s Cognitive Development | Dr HUNG On-ying | TWC | 18 | 381,425 |
| 39 | UGC/FDS14/B16/26 | Governing the Generative AI Shock: Evaluative Pressure, AI-Expert Director Appointments, and Subsequent Organizational Engagement | Dr HWANG Seok-hyun | HSUHK | 30 | 373,135 |
| 40 | UGC/FDS16/B09/26 | Digital Bilingual Mirroring: Strategic Content Differentiation in Hotel Websites | Dr JI Li | HKMU | 24 | 262,960 |
| 41 | UGC/FDS16/B25/26 | Does Geography Matter? Supply Chain Partner Location and Breakthrough Invention in Chinese Firms | Dr JIMENEZ MORO Eduardo Jesus | HKMU | 24 | 468,398 |
| 42 | UGC/FDS16/P08/26 | Physics-Informed Regime-Adaptive Mixture-of-Experts for Particle Reconstruction at the ATLAS Experiment | Dr KWOK King-wai | HKMU | 36 | 659,260 |
| 43 | UGC/FDS16/M36/26 | Optimizing antidiabetic medication prescription by explainable artificial intelligence modeling | Dr KWOK Maggie Man-ki | HKMU | 36 | 829,684 |
| 44 | UGC/FDS14/H09/26 | Echoes on Paper: Song Narratives and Auditory Culture in Modern Chinese Literature (1917-1949) | Dr KWOK Sze-wing | HSUHK | 24 | 467,058 |
| 45 | UGC/FDS14/B07/26 | How Emissions Trading Systems Affect Operating Cost Structure: International Evidence | Dr KWOK Wing-chun | HSUHK | 24 | 220,268 |
| 46 | UGC/FDS15/H31/26 | Mechanism of establishing social capital and its impact towards wellbeing of people in Community Living Room | Dr LAI Ka-wai | Shue Yan | 18 | 519,372 |
| 47 | UGC/FDS16/M10/26 | Mechanism of PFOS-Induced Hematopoietic and Immune Dysregulation in Fish | Dr LAI Keng-po | HKMU | 24 | 600,260 |
| 48 | UGC/FDS24/B09/26 | Paths to Hospitality ESG Performance: A Multilevel Analysis of Leader ESG Orientation, Team ESG Job Crafting, Employee ESG Readiness and Pro-ESG Behaviour | Dr LAM Chin-wah | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 396,114 |
| 49 | UGC/FDS24/P01/26 | Framework-Integrated Molecular Motors: Collective Motion and Energy Conversion in MOFs | Dr LAM King-cheong | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 575,597 |
| 50 | UGC/FDS16/H03/26 | From Urdu to Cantonese: Cross Linguistic Influence in the Spoken Cantonese of Hong Kong Urdu Speaking NCS Students | Dr LAM Man-fong | HKMU | 30 | 738,170 |
| 51 | UGC/FDS16/H55/26 | Preventing Child Maltreatment Through Trauma-Informed Parenting: A Randomised Controlled Trial in Hong Kong | Dr LAM Stanley Kam-ki | HKMU | 30 | 720,518 |
| 52 | UGC/FDS16/M31/26 | Protease Chain Reaction: Ultrasensitive and Quantitative Activity-Based Detection of Proteases Using a Bead-Based Amplification Cascade | Dr LAM Yun-wah | HKMU | 36 | 773,196 |
| 53 | UGC/FDS16/M12/26 | Root Iron Plaques Mediate Nitrogen and Phosphorus Acquisition in Exotic and Native Mangrove Plants, and the Mechanism behind | Dr LANG Tao | HKMU | 30 | 846,909 |
| 54 | UGC/FDS23/M02/26 | Efficacy of a Nature-based Climate Change Education Programme to Promote Pro-Climate Action among Hong Kong Adolescents: A Randomised Controlled Trial | Dr LAU Sam Shun-shun | HKBU SCE | 24 | 633,009 |
| 55 | UGC/FDS24/H26/26 | “Pseudo-Interactive” Multimedia Input and Early L2 English Acquisition in Cantonese-Speaking Kindergarten Children | Dr LAU Cindy Wan-yee | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 643,677 |
| 56 | UGC/FDS24/H03/26 | When Doing Good Looks Good: How App Design Affordances and User Motivation Shape Warm Glow and Sustainable Behaviour | Dr LAU Mei-mei | PolyU SPEED | 18 | 432,753 |
| 57 | UGC/FDS16/M17/26 | Molecular Mechanisms of Alexandrium-Associated Bacteria in Modulating Algal Physiology and Paralytic Shellfish Toxin Biosynthesis | Dr LEE Chun-hung | HKMU | 18 | 767,084 |
| 58 | UGC/FDS14/P01/26 | Functional Partial Least Squares with Interval-Censored Outcomes: Prediction of Alzheimer’s Disease Progression Using Neuroimaging Data | Dr LEE Chun-yin | HSUHK | 36 | 589,510 |
| 59 | UGC/FDS24/B04/26 | Default Nudges and Healthy Food Choices: Optimising Choice Architecture and Mitigating Backfire Effect through Personalisation | Dr LEE Daisy Suet-mui | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 479,479 |
| 60 | UGC/FDS16/B38/26 | Why are AI companions so addictive? The development and empirical testing of a moderator-mediated longitudinal model | Prof LEE Matthew Kwok-on | HKMU | 24 | 658,188 |
| 61 | UGC/FDS16/H01/26 | A study of sentence-final particles in Shantou Southern Min | Prof LEE Peppina Po-lun | HKMU | 24 | 591,028 |
| 62 | UGC/FDS25/E09/26 | Preventing pavement damage near street trees ─ Leveraging on a longitudinal study, large-scale surveys, and a plant experiment to minimise tripping risks and achieve sustainable urban forestry | Dr LEE Shing-him | THEi | 36 | 462,451 |
| 63 | UGC/FDS16/H44/26 | Sources from and Source for Indigenous Knowledge: A Spatial-Regional Study of the Shanhaijing | Dr LEE Valente Wa-lun | HKMU | 36 | 624,119 |
| 64 | UGC/FDS16/M16/26 | Soil and Rhizosphere Microbiome Shifts and Meta-Omics Dynamics Driven by Acanthus ilicifolius Overgrowth Affecting Avicennia marina, and Underlying Mechanisms | Prof LEE Wang-fat | HKMU | 30 | 765,261 |
| 65 | UGC/FDS24/B17/26 | From Resistance to Rapport: Elderly Emotional Responses to Mixed Reality Socially Assistive Robots Through Innovation Resistance and Social Response Theories – Electroencephalogram Experiments in Hong Kong | Dr LEUNG Wilson Ka-shing | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 577,702 |
| 66 | UGC/FDS24/H01/26 | Predictors of Euthanasia Choice and Bereavement Trajectories in Companion Animal Loss | Dr LEUNG Yin-ting | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 525,167 |
| 67 | UGC/FDS14/E05/26 | Service-Level Objective (SLO) - Aware Edge-Cloud LLM Serving: A Phase-Disaggregated Framework | Dr LI Tan | HSUHK | 36 | 680,220 |
| 68 | UGC/FDS16/B19/26 | Effects of Matching Market Integration: Evidence from Chinese College Admission Reforms | Dr LI Tao | HKMU | 24 | 364,478 |
| 69 | UGC/FDS16/H49/26 | Algorithmic Automation and Computational Creativity: Investigating Sound-to-Print Workflows through Neural Computational Approaches in Digital Printmaking | Dr LI Xiaoqiao | HKMU | 36 | 477,127 |
| 70 | UGC/FDS17/M06/26 | Preventive Effects of a Virtual Reality-Based Sensory Stimulation Intervention on Delirium in Intensive Care Units: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial | Dr LIANG Judy Surui | TWC | 36 | 783,781 |
| 71 | UGC/FDS13/H07/26 | Reconstructing New Moralities, Municipality and Spatiality—Three Experiments of Model Housing for Labourers in Shanghai, 1926-1952 | Dr LIANG Zhiyong | Chu Hai | 28 | 546,513 |
| 72 | UGC/FDS16/P01/26 | PFAS in Indoor Environments: Characterizing Unexplained Organofluorine and Potential Effects on Human Airway Barrier Function | Dr LIN Huiju | HKMU | 30 | 628,409 |
| 73 | UGC/FDS24/H30/26 | Understanding the Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Learning Outcomes, Usage Strategies, and Learner Perceptions in Higher Education | Dr LIN Shuyang | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 519,652 |
| 74 | UGC/FDS16/E29/26 | Enhancing Power Grid Resilience under Climate Extremes: Intelligent Early Warning and Proactive Defense against Tropical Cyclone-Induced Cascading Failures | Dr LIU Dong | HKMU | 36 | 762,639 |
| 75 | UGC/FDS11/E04/26 | Discrimination-Enhanced Generative Learning for Data-Scarce Visual Recognition | Dr LIU Hui | SFU | 36 | 595,061 |
| 76 | UGC/FDS13/E04/26 | AI-Enhanced System-Reliability Based Design and Performance Assessment of Integrated Rack-Supported Building Systems | Dr LIU Wenyu | Chu Hai | 36 | 685,010 |
| 77 | UGC/FDS16/M22/26 | Effectiveness of self-administered acupressure intervention on symptom burden, psychological distress and quality of life among post-treatment breast cancer survivors: A pragmatic randomised controlled trial | Dr LIU Xianliang | HKMU | 30 | 507,684 |
| 78 | UGC/FDS16/E32/26 | AI-Enhanced Assessment of Extreme Rainfall and Urban Development: Patterns, Mechanisms and Future Projections for Hong Kong | Dr LU Yi | HKMU | 36 | 741,985 |
| 79 | UGC/FDS16/H26/26 | Hong Kong transgender and gender diverse individuals’ mental health outcomes in the face of family rejection: A mixed-method study of the roles of filial piety and gender minority stress | Dr MA Haixia | HKMU | 20 | 400,496 |
| 80 | UGC/FDS14/E11/26 | Enhancing Right-first-time Accuracy in Dyeing Production: A Novel Machine Learning Supported Scheduling Approach | Dr MA Hoi-lam | HSUHK | 36 | 886,086 |
| 81 | UGC/FDS17/M04/26 | Construction and validation of a miRNA marker panel for risk stratification of cognitive decline: An 8-Year follow-up study in non-demented older adults | Dr MA Suk-ling | TWC | 24 | 653,220 |
| 82 | UGC/FDS17/P02/26 | Investigation of Individual Chemical Profiles through Mass Spectrometry Analysis and Imaging of Lifted Powder-Developed Latent Fingerprints | Dr MAK Deejay Suen-yui | TWC | 30 | 656,011 |
| 83 | UGC/FDS24/H22/26 | Forest-bathing–as– Trauma-Informed Therapeutic Landscape for Migrant Domestic Workers in High-Inequality Urban Contexts: Evidence from Hong Kong | Dr MANNER BALDEON Fanny Katherine | PolyU SPEED | 18 | 458,663 |
| 84 | UGC/FDS16/M11/26 | Reframing Ornamental Fishkeeping: Understanding and Managing Antimicrobial Resistance through Microbiome Insight and Mitigation Strategies | Dr MO Wing-yin | HKMU | 30 | 723,470 |
| 85 | UGC/FDS15/H25/26 | A Randomized Controlled Trial of Compassion Coping Intervention Group for Caregivers of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities in the Transition to Adulthood | Dr MO Yuen-han | Shue Yan | 24 | 448,413 |
| 86 | UGC/FDS14/P04/26 | Novel Approaches to Survival Analysis Leveraging Auxiliary Information | Dr NG Hoi-min | HSUHK | 36 | 521,789 |
| 87 | UGC/FDS16/H14/26 | Why AI Helps Some Learners but Not Others: The Role of Worldview Belief in Personalizing Human–AI Collaboration | Dr NG Ka-yan | HKMU | 30 | 825,955 |
| 88 | UGC/FDS14/P02/26 | Change-points Detection in High-dimensional Time Series via Local Orthogonal Greedy Algorithm | Dr NG Wai-leong | HSUHK | 36 | 757,759 |
| 89 | UGC/FDS14/H13/26 | Navigating Caregiving for Older Adults in Transnational Families From Hong Kong | Prof NGAN Lucille Lok-sun | HSUHK | 36 | 812,207 |
| 90 | UGC/FDS16/M06/26 | Evaluating the Role of Mangrove Roots in PFOA Accumulation and Biodegradation in Wetlands: A Multidisciplinary Approach Combining Chemical, Biological, and Machine Learning Methods | Dr PAN Min | HKMU | 30 | 618,759 |
| 91 | UGC/FDS16/E16/26 | Beyond Handcrafted Features: Building an Interpretable and Complementary Filter-Learning Space for Computational Photography | Dr REN Sijie | HKMU | 36 | 595,509 |
| 92 | UGC/FDS16/B39/26 | Respite Travel Experiences: Identify and Measure Mental Health Impacts for Informal Caregivers | Dr REZAEI Nafiseh | HKMU | 24 | 457,265 |
| 93 | UGC/FDS16/H45/26 | Transcultural Practice from Shanghai to Paris: A Study on Liu Bannong’s Middlebrow Writings (1912-1925) | Dr SHAO Dong | HKMU | 30 | 452,798 |
| 94 | UGC/FDS24/E10/26 | Reusable, Interference-resistant Wearable Bioelectronics for AI-Assisted Proactive Hyperuricemia Management | Dr SHI Rui | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 876,012 |
| 95 | UGC/FDS14/H23/26 | Buddhist Translation Thought in Medieval China | Dr SIU Sai-yau | HSUHK | 36 | 395,700 |
| 96 | UGC/FDS11/E08/26 | Fast Video Enlightening with Smart Domain Transfer Structure | Prof SIU Wan-chi | SFU | 36 | 728,485 |
| 97 | UGC/FDS16/M23/26 | Fish Gut Microbiomes: A New Perspective on Hong Kong’s Marine Biodiversity and Sustainable Aquaculture | Dr TAN Leesian | HKMU | 36 | 595,085 |
| 98 | UGC/FDS14/E08/26 | Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Staff Scheduling and Routing in Gig-Economy Home Care | Dr TANG Valerie | HSUHK | 36 | 635,935 |
| 99 | UGC/FDS16/M27/26 | Investigating the horizontal transfer of platelet-derived mitochondria into vascular smooth muscle cell in atherosclerosis: Implication for the potential therapeutics of vascular aging | Prof TANG Wai-ho | HKMU | 36 | 733,878 |
| 100 | UGC/FDS15/H26/26 | Beyond Socialist Internationalism: Soviet Cinema in Cold War Hong Kong (1940s–1970s) | Dr TAO Yunzhu | Shue Yan | 36 | 432,098 |
| 101 | UGC/FDS16/H35/26 | Embodied Ink: Humanoid Robot‑Assisted Pedagogy and AI Analysis of Xu Beihong’s Chinese Ink Painting | Mr TIN Lai-man | HKMU | 24 | 805,908 |
| 102 | UGC/FDS16/E33/26 | Intelligent Meta-Fluid Antenna Arrays for Joint Communication and Sensing in the Fast-growing Low-Altitude Economy | Prof TONG Kin-fai | HKMU | 24 | 702,357 |
| 103 | UGC/FDS16/H54/26 | Study of the Republican-Era (1912-1949) Hong Kong Ci Poetry Scene: Focusing on Yang Tiefu, Lai Guolian, and Lau King-tong | Dr TSANG Chi-chung | HKMU | 30 | 476,944 |
| 104 | UGC/FDS13/E02/26 | Screen Content Video Quality Enhancement Based on Embedded Coding Information | Dr TSANG Sik-ho | Chu Hai | 24 | 561,160 |
| 105 | UGC/FDS15/H02/26 | Perceptual and experiential misalignment in digital visitor narrative: A triangulated analysis of appraisal, topic modeling, and sentiment in Hong Kong’s heritage transport discourse | Dr WAN Jenny Yau-ni | Shue Yan | 24 | 484,259 |
| 106 | UGC/FDS16/E12/26 | AI-Powered Molecular Modeling for Predicting the Responses of Oncogenic Alterations to Targeted Therapy in Non-small-cell Lung Cancer | Dr WANG Dan | HKMU | 30 | 593,161 |
| 107 | UGC/FDS15/H06/26 | Prioritize Humanity When Embracing Artificial Intelligence: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore Moral Consequences and Psychological Interventions of Organizational Dehumanization | Dr WANG Jessy Rong | Shue Yan | 36 | 700,266 |
| 108 | UGC/FDS13/H17/26 | Retreat through Desire: Courtesan Portraiture and Gendered Bodies in Early Modern China | Dr WANG Yizhou | Chu Hai | 36 | 467,783 |
| 109 | UGC/FDS13/H10/26 | Hydraulic Infrastructures, Social Change and State Governance in the Guanzhong–Hanzhong Region (1500–1860) | Dr WANG Yongxi | Chu Hai | 36 | 687,375 |
| 110 | UGC/FDS24/H28/26 | Modeling the Human-AI Partnership: A Multi-Agent AI System for Collaborative Literary Translation | Dr WEN Zhisheng | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 574,583 |
| 111 | UGC/FDS24/E03/26 | Improving Intercalation and Capacitance in Fast-Charging Aluminum-Ion Batteries, and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Synthetic Data for Capacitance Prediction | Dr WONG Chi-ho | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 605,828 |
| 112 | UGC/FDS14/E04/26 | Optimising Slow-Steaming Strategies with a Predictive, Utility‑Based Multi‑Objective Model: Decarbonisation, Fuel Mix, and Service Performance in Global Maritime Shipping Operations | Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | HSUHK | 30 | 677,050 |
| 113 | UGC/FDS17/M05/26 | A holistic artificial intelligence-based approach combining machine learning, deep learning, holomics, and multi-dimensional data to predict brain tumour prognosis | Dr WONG Jacky Tsz-lung | TWC | 24 | 685,252 |
| 114 | UGC/FDS16/P04/26 | Unlocking the Potential of Hemilabile Phosphine–Nickel/Iron Catalysts for Challenging Carbon–Selenium (C–Se) Bond Formation | Dr WONG Shun-man | HKMU | 24 | 600,711 |
| 115 | UGC/FDS15/H38/26 | Bridging the Digital and Cognitive Divide: An Augmented Reality (AR) 3D Drawing Serious Game Development and Evaluation for Visual-Spatial and Working Memory Training in the Elderly | Dr WONG Ying-kit | Shue Yan | 24 | 505,324 |
| 116 | UGC/FDS24/B05/26 | Should Leading E-Commerce Platforms Operate Their Own Air Fleets? A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Delivery Performance and Platform Competitiveness | Dr WU Songman | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 441,758 |
| 117 | UGC/FDS15/H29/26 | Why Do Insurance Intermediaries Avoid Regulations? An Empirical Study on Shadow Intermediation in Hong Kong–Mainland Cross-Border Insurance Business | Dr XIAO Nancy Huina | Shue Yan | 24 | 458,126 |
| 118 | UGC/FDS21/E03/26 | Research on Multi-Language Smart Contract Security Audit Based on Fuzzing and Static Analysis | Dr XU Zhiyu | CTIHE | 36 | 610,111 |
| 119 | UGC/FDS17/M03/26 | Nanopore-Based Metagenomic Profiling of the Cervical Microbiome in Hong Kong Women for Enhanced Cervical Cancer Risk Stratification: Associations with HPV/STI Pathogens and Cytological Outcomes | Dr YANG Mei | TWC | 24 | 773,772 |
| 120 | UGC/FDS24/B19/26 | An AI-driven Cross-Destination Tourist Sentiment Analysis System for Competitive-Collaborative Strategy Development | Dr YANG Tong | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 582,357 |
| 121 | UGC/FDS14/P03/26 | Nonconvex Penalty Methods for Distributed Sparse Optimization and Their Applications | Dr YU Kwok-wai | HSUHK | 36 | 790,953 |
| 122 | UGC/FDS14/E12/26 | Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Retrieval-Augmented Generation: Anonymous Knowledge Aggregation and Private Querying | Dr ZHANG Chen | HSUHK | 36 | 651,869 |
| 123 | UGC/FDS24/E02/26 | Towards a Unified Framework for Continual Learning of “Any-to-Any” Multimodal Large Models: Theory, Algorithms, and Benchmarks | Dr ZHANG Dongyu | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 600,915 |
| 124 | UGC/FDS25/M03/26 | From Coffee Waste to Resilient Urban Trees: Interactions of Caffeine and Spent Coffee Grounds as Biostimulants with Rhizosphere Microbiota in Hong Kong Urban Forestry | Dr ZHANG Hao | THEi | 36 | 793,962 |
| 125 | UGC/FDS13/H19/26 | Ethnic Minority Representation in Hong Kong’s Mandarin Films During the Cold War | Dr ZHANG Huiyan | Chu Hai | 24 | 578,458 |
| 126 | UGC/FDS16/E10/26 | Collision-Type-Targeted Black-Box Testing of Autonomous Driving Systems | Dr ZHANG Jingyu | HKMU | 24 | 652,511 |
| 127 | UGC/FDS16/E06/26 | From Single-Modal Data to Interactive Diagnostics: A Multimodal Intelligent Diagnostic Framework Incorporating Ultrasound Tomographic Data for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | Dr ZHANG Tiantian | HKMU | 24 | 626,910 |
| 128 | UGC/FDS24/E14/26 | Towards Green Shipboard Environments: Development of a Smart Liquid Absorption Framework for Marine-Compatible Air Treatment | Dr ZHANG Yanling | PolyU SPEED | 30 | 566,260 |
| 129 | UGC/FDS13/E01/26 | Viscoelastic Pipe Transient Modeling and PINN-Based Burst Detection for Hong Kong’s Water Distribution Networks | Dr ZHANG Ying | Chu Hai | 24 | 578,284 |
| 130 | UGC/FDS25/E04/26 | Developing deep learning approaches for the prediction and inverse design of boundary slip elastohydrodynamic lubrication | Dr ZHAO Yang | THEi | 36 | 743,350 |
| 131 | UGC/FDS14/E(M)10/26 | Assessing Service Capacity and Resilience of Multi-Department Outpatient Systems under Cross-Boundary Demand | Dr ZOU Chengye | HSUHK | 24 | 500,260 |