Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector 2023/24 - 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/FDS24/E09/23 | An Innovative Hybrid Nanofluid Spray Cooling Based Thermal Management System for Efficient Cooling of Electric Vehicle High Power Electronics | Dr ASIM Muhammad | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 1,006,465 |
| 2 | UGC/FDS16/H29/23 | The role of active and passive attentional capture in the attentional boost effect | Dr AU Ricky Kwok-cheong | HKMU | 24 | 615,120 |
| 3 | UGC/FDS16/E04/23 | Behaviour and design of high performance steel bolted connections at ambient and high temperatures | Dr CAI Yancheng | HKMU | 36 | 2,033,250 |
| 4 | UGC/FDS51/H02/23 | A Study of the Corpus included in Samuel Williams' A Tonic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Canton Dialect | Dr CHAN Abraham Yee-shun | UOWCHK | 24 | 795,900 |
| 5 | UGC/FDS14/H03/23 | News Consumption in Hong Kong: News Avoidance, Movement Abeyance, and Critical Events | Dr CHAN Chi-kit | HSUHK | 24 | 663,593 |
| 6 | UGC/FDS51/H(B)01/23 | Housing preferences of young adults in Hong Kong: How should shared housing be designed and priced? | Prof CHAN Hing-lin | UOWCHK | 24 | 618,340 |
| 7 | UGC/FDS15/H19/23 | Hong Kong Children's Literature: City and Visual-Textual Narratives | Dr CHAN Michelle Chi-ying | Shue Yan | 18 | 317,169 |
| 8 | UGC/FDS16/H10/23 | Fable of the Bees in Our Time: An Inquiry to Recover Assets and Values of Waste Pickers in Hong Kong | Dr CHAN Wai-yin | HKMU | 24 | 491,610 |
| 9 | UGC/FDS24/H22/23 | The Echoes of Air Raids: An Exploration of Wartime Soundscapes through Literature and Print Media | Dr CHEN Hazel Shu | PolyU SPEED | 30 | 528,640 |
| 10 | UGC/FDS14/P03/23 | InsurTech: Risk Classification and Premium Calibration with Data Analytics | Dr CHEN Yongzhao | HSUHK | 36 | 1,183,400 |
| 11 | UGC/FDS24/H10/23 | A Multimodal Discourse Analysis of Dynamic Handwritten Annotations as Visual Aids in Live Lecture Recording | Dr CHEUNG Eric Lok-ming | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 635,130 |
| 12 | UGC/FDS17/M02/23 | Characterization of subtypes of Mild Cognitive Impairment with artificial intelligence: Multiomics approach | Dr CHEUNG Eva Yi-wah | TWC | 24 | 1,961,513 |
| 13 | UGC/FDS24/H06/23 | Effectiveness of Early Support to At-risk Students Identified by using AI Prediction | Dr CHIU Hon-sun | PolyU SPEED | 30 | 699,300 |
| 14 | UGC/FDS14/H08/23 | Arts for well-being: The impact of arts engagement on parental stress and mental well-being | Dr CHOY Christine Hiu-ying | HSUHK | 18 | 518,966 |
| 15 | UGC/FDS11/H10/23 | The building and operation of transnational elder care network: a case study of left-behind elderly in Hong Kong | Dr FUNG Ka-yi | Caritas | 24 | 479,765 |
| 16 | UGC/FDS13/B02/23 | From Broken to Better than Ever: The impact of divorce on leadership emergence | Dr GU Jingyang | Chu Hai | 30 | 499,085 |
| 17 | UGC/FDS15/H07/23 | Counselling support for the social-emotional wellbeing of young people in Hong Kong: Developing a model of counsellor effectiveness | Dr HARRISON Mark Gregory | Shue Yan | 24 | 874,100 |
| 18 | UGC/FDS15/H01/23 | Cinema and Cinemagoing in Early-twentieth-century Shanghai | Prof HE Qiliang | Shue Yan | 24 | 969,826 |
| 19 | UGC/FDS14/E03/23 | Sustainable and Resilient Automated E-Fulfilment Operations in the Era of Industrial 5.0 | Dr HO George To-sum | HSUHK | 18 | 479,650 |
| 20 | UGC/FDS14/E02/23 | Optimizing Model Freshness for Federated Transfer Learning with Extreme Cases in Autonomous Driving Networks | Dr HOU Aileen Yun | HSUHK | 36 | 1,384,538 |
| 21 | UGC/FDS16/E18/23 | 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 | Dr HUNG Kevin King-fai | HKMU | 24 | 800,960 |
| 22 | UGC/FDS24/E07/23 | Investigation of Hydrogen-enriched Low Calorific Value Landfill Gas Combustion in a Porous Medium Based Burner | Dr KAHANGAMAGE Udaya Priyadarshana | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 885,888 |
| 23 | UGC/FDS16/B05/23 | Examining the role of Benefit Corporations (B Corps) in deriving shared value and achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) | Dr KHURSHID Hamid | HKMU | 18 | 363,385 |
| 24 | UGC/FDS14/P04/23 | Probabilistic Classification Error Modeling for Distance Metric Learning and Deep Metric Learning Theory and Applications | Dr LAM Benson Shu-yan | HSUHK | 36 | 828,859 |
| 25 | UGC/FDS24/B11/23 | What Contributes to Hospitality Green Service Innovative Behaviour? A Multi-level Analysis of Adaptability, Technology Readiness and Organisational Cultures | Dr LAM Chin-wah | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 582,676 |
| 26 | UGC/FDS16/H08/23 | From Transformation to Empowerment: A Study of Heritage Tourism in Four Asian Tigers and Its Implications | Dr LAW Lok-yin | HKMU | 30 | 646,745 |
| 27 | UGC/FDS16/E05/23 | Development of using retired batteries from electrical vehicles to build smart emergency power systems for buildings in Hong Kong | Dr LEE Chi-chung | HKMU | 36 | 1,149,640 |
| 28 | UGC/FDS13/H01/23 | Idol Culture, Masculinity, and Hong Kong Identity: A Reception Study of the Mirror Phenomenon | Dr LEE Kwok-fong | Chu Hai | 24 | 558,943 |
| 29 | UGC/FDS16/E13/23 | Fusing Intra-modality and Inter-modality Interactions with Self-attention for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis | Dr LEE Lap-kei | HKMU | 24 | 859,610 |
| 30 | UGC/FDS16/H17/23 | A study of modals and modal negatives in the Shantou Southern Min dialect | Prof LEE Peppina Po-lun | HKMU | 18 | 516,775 |
| 31 | UGC/FDS16/M09/23 | Ageing without children: the lived experience of childless Chinese older couples | Prof LEE Yin-king | HKMU | 18 | 458,375 |
| 32 | UGC/FDS15/H02/23 | Court news in the post-national security law Hong Kong: Examining the significance and journalistic roles, production, and contents of protests-/ politics-related court news | Dr LEUNG Ka-kuen | Shue Yan | 24 | 845,983 |
| 33 | UGC/FDS11/E01/23 | Providing Clean Air to Breathe by Wet Electrostatic Precipitators | Prof LEUNG Andrew Yee-tak | Caritas | 36 | 1,355,776 |
| 34 | UGC/FDS11/E02/23 | Developing Efficient Cartoon Animation Editing Pipeline via Deep Entity Recognition and Motion Analysis | Dr LI Chengze | Caritas | 36 | 1,295,180 |
| 35 | UGC/FDS11/H06/23 | Rearticulating Modernity in China: Trains and Railways in Wartime Literature and Film, 1937-1958 | Dr LI Siyi | Caritas | 24 | 577,400 |
| 36 | UGC/FDS16/E08/23 | Long-term adaptation strategy for climate-resilient coastal bridges subjected to extreme risk under typhoons | Dr LI Yaohan | HKMU | 36 | 1,630,575 |
| 37 | UGC/FDS16/E10/23 | A Generic Label Extension and Enhancement Framework: from Emotion Domain to General Domain | Dr LI Zongxi | HKMU | 36 | 1,165,690 |
| 38 | UGC/FDS16/H27/23 | "Shanghai fever" : Japanese travel writers and modern Chinese writers in the 1920s | Dr LO Man-chi | HKMU | 24 | 415,250 |
| 39 | UGC/FDS13/E01/23 | Automatic Landmark Object Extraction and Image-based Visibility Estimation System | Prof LO Wai-lun | Chu Hai | 24 | 768,185 |
| 40 | UGC/FDS24/E12/23 | Exploring the Use of Sonic Crystal in Noise Barriers | Dr LOH Anthony Wai-keung | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 829,480 |
| 41 | UGC/FDS14/E06/23 | Impacts of Fairness on Cabin Crew Scheduling: Crew Preferences and Allowances | Dr MA Helen Hoi-lam | HSUHK | 36 | 1,491,600 |
| 42 | UGC/FDS14/B06/23 | A multilevel model of workplace happiness: Examining the effects of internal market orientation, supervisory trust on employee work outcomes and organisational performance | Dr MAN Thomas Wing-yan | HSUHK | 24 | 526,800 |
| 43 | UGC/FDS24/E15/23 | Development of Mycelium-Based Composites with Enhanced Mechanical and Thermal Properties for Diabetic Foot Insoles | Dr NG Sun-pui | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 997,495 |
| 44 | UGC/FDS14/P02/23 | Principal contrast analysis of high-dimensional time series | Dr NG Timothy Chi-tim | HSUHK | 24 | 709,420 |
| 45 | UGC/FDS14/H13/23 | Poetic Justice and the Anglophone Novel, 1678–1928 | Dr PARKER Jay Thomas | HSUHK | 24 | 772,133 |
| 46 | UGC/FDS15/B09/23 | Mastery and helpless responses to proactivity setbacks: The role of implicit person theory | Dr PENG Zhengmin | Shue Yan | 24 | 848,225 |
| 47 | UGC/FDS16/H16/23 | Stage for Positive Ageing: Oral History Theatre by Older People | Dr SHU Chi-yee | HKMU | 30 | 479,650 |
| 48 | UGC/FDS16/M16/23 | Storage conditions and brewing methods for preserving catechin contents, reducing fungal contaminants, and minimizing mycotoxin residues in four types of tea in different packaging | Dr TAM Emily Wan-ting | HKMU | 30 | 887,210 |
| 49 | UGC/FDS14/H15/23 | An exploration of civic resilience of Hong Kong's citizens and society in times of political change | Dr TANG Gary Kin-yat | HSUHK | 24 | 1,000,002 |
| 50 | UGC/FDS16/M14/23 | Effects of microplastic ingestion on the growth of marine microplankton grazers and their grazing control on algal blooms | Dr TANG Chi-hung | HKMU | 24 | 753,350 |
| 51 | UGC/FDS24/H15/23 | Can a Transgender Storytelling (TGST) Workshop Change Students' Empathetical Feelings and Attitudes about Transgender Individuals?: A Triangulation Approach | Dr TAO Kimberly Wei-yi | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 444,897 |
| 52 | UGC/FDS16/E07/23 | Developing an automatic shading control approach for improving visual comfort in urban areas | Dr TSANG Kin-wai | HKMU | 36 | 1,308,290 |
| 53 | UGC/FDS14/B08/23 | Leveraging customer co-creation platform for firm innovative performance | Dr TSE Fiona Sin-yan | HSUHK | 18 | 247,494 |
| 54 | UGC/FDS16/E01/23 | Gunn diode-based Terahertz emitter using Topological Insulators | Prof VELLAISAMY Arul Lenus Roy | HKMU | 36 | 1,223,190 |
| 55 | UGC/FDS16/E16/23 | Protein-ligand Binding Affinity Prediction Based on Grid Representation and Deep Learning: Paving the Way to Efficient Structure-based Drug Design | Dr WANG Dan | HKMU | 36 | 993,240 |
| 56 | UGC/FDS16/E17/23 | Knowledge Alignment Framework Based on Contrastive Learning in Stock Prediction and other Emotion-Related Natural Language Processing Tasks | Prof WANG Fu-lee | HKMU | 30 | 800,006 |
| 57 | UGC/FDS16/E02/23 | Automatic and Accurate Evaluation of Placental Abnormalities via Multi-modal, Multi-task and Federated Semi-supervised Learning | Dr WANG Weiming | HKMU | 36 | 1,264,590 |
| 58 | UGC/FDS14/E08/23 | Generating novel customer needs for new product development | Dr WANG Yue | HSUHK | 30 | 1,128,250 |
| 59 | UGC/FDS16/H09/23 | The Casual Official and the Tang Minister: A Study of the Reception of Yuan Jie and His Literature | Dr WONG Chi-hung | HKMU | 24 | 341,540 |
| 60 | UGC/FDS16/M17/23 | 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 | Dr WONG Emily Sze-wan | HKMU | 30 | 1,089,150 |
| 61 | UGC/FDS14/E09/23 | Ensuring the operational resilience of shipping by integrating vessel slot allocation and container supply planning with uncertain demand for yield management and order fulfilment in the global supply chain | Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | HSUHK | 30 | 914,799 |
| 62 | UGC/FDS25/E05/23 | A Study of Temperature and Relative Humidity Effect on Strength Development of Low Carbon Concrete | Dr WONG Ho-fai | THEi | 36 | 1,194,021 |
| 63 | UGC/FDS14/B03/23 | Distinct effects of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards on employee creativity and routine performance: The dual role of mindfulness | Dr WONG Noel Yuen-shan | HSUHK | 18 | 417,550 |
| 64 | UGC/FDS16/P02/23 | Metal-Catalyzed C–H Bond Functionalization of (Hetero)arenes by using alterable P,O or P,N hemilabile benzimidazolyl phosphine ligands | Dr WONG Shun-man | HKMU | 18 | 762,550 |
| 65 | UGC/FDS16/M21/23 | Oxidative activity of mangrove leaf phenolics and their inhibition on growth and physiology of harmful algal species, and the underlying molecular mechanism | Dr XU Jingliang | HKMU | 24 | 1,028,200 |
| 66 | UGC/FDS14/H09/23 | Future museum: Review of immersive technology applications and curatorial strategy for exhibitions and art education in museum | Dr YANG Rochelle Yi-hsuan | HSUHK | 18 | 445,725 |
| 67 | UGC/FDS14/B01/23 | SOE State Audit in China | Dr YAU Belinda Ling-na | HSUHK | 24 | 660,200 |
| 68 | UGC/FDS17/H01/23 | Cardioprotective and mental health benefits of the Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay (MIND) diet combined with forest bathing (FB) among adults with elevated blood cholesterol: A randomized controlled trial | Dr YAU Ka-yin | TWC | 36 | 1,023,778 |
| 69 | UGC/FDS14/P05/23 | Nonconvex Structured Optimization: Theory and Application | Dr YU Carisa Kwok-wai | HSUHK | 36 | 1,358,200 |
| 70 | UGC/FDS24/E08/23 | CFD-based Autonomous System of Health Estimation and Maintenance Scheme for Electrical Apparatus of Power Substations in Hong Kong | Dr ZHANG Hao | PolyU SPEED | 36 | 894,110 |
| 71 | UGC/FDS15/B02/23 | Does Corporate Sociopolitical Activism Oriented Market Exits Benefit Corporate Brand Equity and Firm Profitability? Evidence from Corporate Exodus from Russia amidst the 2022 Russo-Ukrainian War | Dr ZHANG Xiao | Shue Yan | 24 | 625,700 |
| 72 | UGC/FDS24/B10/23 | Towards a Resilient and Sustainable Supply Chain under Industry 4.0 Perspective: Lessons Learned from the Tourism Industry for Mitigating the Pandemic Disruptions | Dr ZHANG Xinyan | PolyU SPEED | 24 | 394,205 |