Computer Science Researchers Excel in Securing External Funding

7 Sep 2023

The Department is proud of witnessing continuous success in securing various highly competitive external grants administered by the Research Grants Council (RGC) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). Below is the list of funded projects that we secured recently.

Research Grants Council 2023

Funding Scheme Principal Investigator Project Title Funded Amount (HK$)
General Research Fund Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Semi-supervised Classification of Long-tailed Data with Hierarchically Related Labels in a Concept Drift Environment 1,498,839
General Research Fund Professor Byron Choi Koon-kau Querying Large Networks of Cryptocurrencies 1,228,619
General Research Fund Dr. Xin Huang Efficient Algorithms for Truss Maintenance over Large Dynamic Graphs 1,228,619
Early Career Scheme Dr. Renchi Yang Realtime Relevance Search over Massive Attributed Graphs 1,175,324
RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme Professor Yiu-ming Cheung Facial Reenactment in a Monocular Video Stream for Speaker Verification and Its Applications 7,798,380

National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Research Programs 2023

Funding Scheme Principal Investigator Project Title Funded Amount (RMB)
General Program Fund Dr. Bo Han The Research on Trustworthy Federated Learning in Imperfect Environments 510,000
Young Scientists Fund Dr. Renjie Wan Reflection Removal in Dynamic Environment 300,000
Young Scientists Fund Dr. Renchi Yang Efficient Algorithms for Large-scale Bipartite Graph Co-clustering 300,000
Young Scientists Fund Dr. Kejing Yin Interpretable Representation Learning from Intensive Care Big Data by Incorporating Complex Decision-Making Process 300,000