For the academic year 2021/2022, the Research Grants Council (RGC) has approved HK$64.84 million for a total of 71 projects in the ‘Competitive Research Funding Schemes for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector’. HSUHK has secured a total funding of HK$18.16 million for 18 projects including 16 Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) projects, one Inter-institutional Development Scheme project and one Institutional Development Scheme Research Infrastructure Grant (IDSR) project. HSUHK’s total amount of grants is the highest among all eligible local self-financing institutions.
| Funding Scheme | School/Department | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Funding Amount (Inclusive of On-costs)(HKD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Computing | Dr David Chan | Enhancing Wireless Information Freshness via Physical-Layer Network Coding and Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access | 1,143,229 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Art and Design | Dr Christine Choy | Art at Home: The Impact of New Media and Online Cultural Production on Home-Based Arts Engagement | 755,126 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Accountancy | Dr Lisa Goh | The CEO Pay Ratio: UK Evidence | 409,758 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Supply Chain and Information Management | Dr George Ho | Dynamic Pick Face Replenishment & Pallet Consolidation Model for Landing in the Next E-Fulfilment Normal | 669,975 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Economics and Finance | Dr Kaz Kwok | How Do Companies Adapt to Extreme Weather? Evidence from Corporate Uses of Internal Cash Flow | 363,213 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Supply Chain and Information Management | Dr Cathy Lam | Riding to Success in Cold Chain Digitalization: A Digital Twin based Closed-Loop Logistics Decision Model | 769,519 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Social Science | Dr Joseph Li | Cultural Exchanges in the Cold War: Visiting Tours and Affective Connections in Sinophone Asia (1950s-1980s) | 917,455 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Supply Chain and Information Management | Dr Helen Ma | Scheduling of Heterogeneous Autonomous Mobile Robots for Robotic Cells Manufacturing in Smart Manufacturing | 1,515,750 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | English | Dr Maggie Ma | Exploring Teacher-Supported Peer Feedback: Developing Student Feedback Literacy and Writing Quality | 691,394 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Computing | Dr Chris Ma | Quantifying Privacy Risk of Mobile Applications through Machine Learning | 843,050 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Supply Chain and Information Management | Dr Daniel Mo | Dual Channel Logistics Strategy with the Integration of Crowdsourced Vehicles for Ad Hoc Demand | 493,450 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance | Dr Tom Ng | Sequential Change-Point Detection in High-Dimensional Vector Autoregressive Models | 973,000 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Social Science | Dr Gary Tang | What is the Role of Internet Memes in Political Discussion? | 1,060,975 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Supply Chain and Information Management | Dr Yue Wang | AutoQFD: A Smart Quality Function Deployment Method for Product Development | 1,209,850 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Accountancy | Dr Belinda Yau | Auditing During the COVID-19 Pandemic | 793,025 |
| Faculty Development Scheme (FDS) | Mathematics, Statistics and Insurance | Dr Carisa Yu | Partially Separable and Sparse Optimization: Theory and Applications | 915,270 |
| Inter-institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) | Supply Chain and Information Management | Dr Eugene Wong | Extended Reality on Smart Transport and Logistics: Embracing Innovative Theories and Technologies for Enhancing Operational Resilience and Efficiency | 544,548 |
| Institutional Development Scheme Research Infrastructure Grant (IDSR) | Institutional | Professor Simon Ho (Project Holder) Professor Louis Cheng (Team Leader) | Establishing a Research Infrastructure for ESG Intelligence: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective | 4,095,000 |