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Ten Projects Led by AIS Faculty Awarded RGC’s General Research Fund and Early Career Scheme 2025/26
31/07/2025
We are delighted to announce that 10 AIS faculty members have collectively secured over HK$7.5 million in research funding under the Research Grants Council’s (RGC) General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2025/26.
Spanning all five divisions - Division of Arts and Machine Creativity (AMC), Division of Emerging Interdisciplinary Areas (EMIA), Division of Environment and Sustainability (ENVR), Division of Integrative Systems and Design (ISD), and Division of Public Policy (PPOL) - our faculty demonstrate a strong commitment in interdisciplinary research that addresses critical global and societal challenges.
Covering a board spectrum of areas such as climate science, environmental economics, AI, wearable technology, healthcare systems, regulatory innovation, and post-war policy reconstruction, the diversification within these research topics reflects AIS’s unique position within a rich intellectual landscape at the intersection of science, technology, governance, and societal impact.
Awarded AIS projects (in alphabetical order by Division and surname):
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Division |
Scheme |
Principal Investigator |
Project title |
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AMC |
ECS |
An Integrated Framework for Autoregressive Video Generation and Understanding |
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EMIA |
GRF |
New Approaches to Emulators using Perturbed-Physics Ensembles and Applications to Diagnosing Climate Model Errors and Evaluating Emergent Constraints |
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ENVR |
GRF |
Developing a Scale-Adaptive Cumulus Parameterization for Simulating Tropical Convection Across Scales |
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ENVR |
ECS |
The Carbon and Financial Implications of China's Voluntary Carbon Market |
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ISD |
ECS |
Wearable Electromagnetic Actuation Systems with Customized Force Output |
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ISD |
ECS |
SoRoWAM: Soft Robot with Whole Arm Manipulation capabilities |
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ISD |
GRF |
Integrating Semantic Sensing and Communication for 6G: Expanding the Synergy Beyond Physical Layer |
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PPOL |
GRF |
Struggling with an Ageing Population and Economic Downturn: An Examination of the Policy Feedback Effects in China's Social Security System |
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PPOL |
GRF |
Post-Conflict Reconstruction of the Health Sector in the Postwar Philippine Republic, 1946–1953 |
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PPOL |
GRF |
New regulations, same old story: Analyzing impacts on green innovation in the chemical industry from regulatory overhaul |
In addition to the GRF, Prof. Alex HE Jingwei has been selected as one of only ten recipients of the Humanities and Social Sciences Prestigious Fellowship Scheme for 2025/26.
We extend our heartfelt congratulations to all awardees and look forward to the impact their research will bring in addressing today’s complex challenges through interdisciplinary approaches.
