Assistant Professor Haiping Lu Receives RGC’s Early Career Award

3 Sep 2014

Doctor Haiping Lu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, recently won Research Grants Council’s (RGC) Early Career Awards in 2014/15 in recognition of his excellent achievements in research.

His funded project is titled “Dimensionality Reduction for Learning Correlations between Big Multidimensional Data”, for an amount of HK$0.83 million.

Applications for research project grants under the Early Career Scheme (ECS) are assessed independently by international experts, with applicants required to be full-time academic staff members within the first three years of employment at a University Grants Committee (UGC) funded institution. This year, the ECS received 359 applications from all eight UGC-funded universities. Of the 154 funded projects, only 22 early-career scholars received Early Career Awards due to their “excellent” ratings with a full score of 5.0.