Total grant money secured since 1993 = HK$64M. (2020)

(co-I = co-Investigator; I = Investigator; PI = Principal Investigator)

Competitive Grants

  • PI, “Privacy-Infused Constitutional AI: Contrastive Reinforced [Un]learning and Evolving from AI Feedback”, General Research Fund, RGC, HK906,256, 2024 / 2025. (Project #: 14206324)


  • PI, "Assessment Scheme for Engineering and Technology Education (ASSETE) Phase Two 2024 - 2026", sponsored by Innovation & Technology Commission-General Support Program during the period 1/9/2024 - 31/8/2026 for the sum of HK$6,082,483 (GSP/008/24)


  • PI, "Innovation and Technology Student Club 2023-25", sponsored by Innovation & Technology Commission-General Support Program during the period 1/3/2024-28/02/2026 for the sum of HK$1,392,420 (GSP/054/23)
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  • PI, ITF (PRP/054/21FX) “A Knowledge Graph Based Dynamic Video Extractive Summarisation System”, 01/04/2022 – 31/03/2024, HK$787,000. 

  • PI, ITF (ITT/008/22LP) “Trial: Augmented Recommendation System to Identify Potential Inward Investment in Hong Kong”, 31/03/2022 – 29/09/2023, HK$3,194,881.70.   


  • PI: “Robotics, STEM and Green Innovation (Phase 2)” Innovation Technology Fund, HK$3,440,846, September 12,2020- September 11,2022


  • PI: “A Customized Social Response Analysis System”, Innovation Technoloogy Fund, ITSP-Tier3, HK$1,794,000, March 31, 2020 – February 27 2021, (Project # ITT/016/19LP)


  • PI, “Innovation and Technology Student Club 2018-20” sponsored by Innovation & Technology Commission-General Support Program during the period 15/11/2018-14/11/2020 for the sum of HK$1,363,428.5 (Project #: GSP/021/18)


  • PI, “Research and Development of Human Assist AT to Build Chatbot”, Innovation Technoloogy Fund, ITSP-Tier3, HK$1,524,538, July 1, 2019-December 31 2020, (Project # ITS/335/18)


  • PI, “DRILLED: A Novel Method For Building Chatbot Using Deep Reinforcement Learning With Limited Data” General Research Fund, RGC during the period Sept 2018 to Aug 2020 for the sum of HK$326,933 (Project #: 14613518).


  • PI, “Robotics, STEM and Green Innovation” General Support Program, Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) during the period 12/03/2018-11/03/2020 for the sum of HK$2,917,228 (Project #: GSP/031/17).


  • PI, Innovation and Technology Student Club 2017 sponsored by Innovation & Technology Commission-General Support Program during the period 15/7/2017-14/7/2018 for the sum of HK$602,120 (GSP/013/17).


  • PI, “Microblog Summarization Using Discourse”, General Research Fund, RGC, HK$450k, Sept 2016 to Aug 2018. (Project #: 14232816)


  • PI, “Research and Development of INCOMIRS (Integrated Community-based Microblog Recommendation System)”, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), HK$3,117,000, May 2016 to May 2018.  (Project # ITP/004/16LP-S)


  • PI, Innovation and Technology Student Club 2016 sponsored by Innovation & Technology Commission-General Support Program during the period 15/7/2016-14/7/2017 for the sum of HK$589,010 (GSP/010/16).


  • PI, “Fusion between Chinese Cultural Arts and Robotics (Phase 2)”, General Support Program, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), HK$3,005,030, 08/2014-07/2016. (Project #: GSP/011/14).


  • PI, Innovation and Technology Student Club 2015 sponsored by Innovation & Technology Commission-General Support Program during the period 1/4/2015-01-31/3/2016 for the sum of HKD 645,900 (Project #: GSP/027/14).


  • Co-PI, “Intelligent Financial Information Service System Based on Internet Mining”, Shenzhen International Cooperation Research Funding, 12/2012-11/2014, RMB500K. (Project#: GJHZ20120613110641217)


  • PI, “Emergent Rumor Detection and Credibility Ranking on Microblogs”, HK$500K, RGC, Research Grant Council, 09/2012-08/2014.


  • PI, "863"計劃課題"海量Web數據結構化內容提取與集成及大型示範應用"測試委托項目 (EE13462) sponsored by 北京大學 (Peking University) during the period 20/12/2013-31/12/2014 for the sum of HKD 174,460.00


  • PI, “Fusion between Chinese Cultural Arts and Robotics”, HK$1,464,325, General Support Program, Innovation Technology Fund, 1/7/2012 to 30/6/2013.


  • PI, “Web Information Mining and Decision Support Platform for the Modern Service Industry”, HK$2.576M, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), 1/7/2010-30/4/ 2012.


  • Co-I, “Learning Domain Specific Opinion Lexicons for the Context-Sensitive Opinion Retrieval of Bilingual Online Comments”, GRF, Research Grants Council (RGC), HK, HK$681,315, 8/2010-7/2013. (project#: 115910)


  • PI, “Seamless Integrated Relational XML Database”, National 863 Program, RMB3.74M, 1/2009 -12/2010.


  • PI, “REE – Roundtable of Entrepreneurship Education”, General Support Programme (GSP), Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), Hong Kong, HK$420k, 01/05/2009-31/12/2009.


  • PI, “Building Multilingual Meta-search Engine over the Web”, HK$980k, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), 1/9/2008-31/8/, 2009.


  • Co-I, “Internet Robotics Innovation Park (IRIP)”, General Support Program, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), HK$2.6M, 1/10/2007-30/9/ 09.


  • Co-I, “Traditional and Transformation: An Investigation into the Development of Vernacular Architectural Practices in Southeast China”, Earmarked Grant, Research Grant Council, 1/7/07 to 31/12/2 09, HK$ 1,2M.


  • Co-I, “Internet-based Robotics Inter-School (IRIS) Competition”, HK$2M, Quality Education Fund (QEF), 05/2006- 04/2007.


  • PI, “School eNewsletter”, HK$2.6M, Quality Education Fund (QEF), 11/2004-4/2006.


  • Co-I, “A support program to increase the competitiveness of Hong Kong software SMEs in mainland China (Part 2)”, HK$1.03M,  SME Development Fund, 02/2003-01/2004. (Collaboration with the Hong Kong Mainland Software Industry Cooperation Association and Hong Kong IT Joint Council)


  • Co-I, “HKTAIS – Hong Kong Traditional Architecture Information System”, HK$300k, funded by Antiquities and Monuments Office (AMO), HKSAR, 04/2003-09/2003. (In collaboration with Dept. of Architecture, CUHK)


  • Co-I, “Advanced Indexing Strategies for Chinese Information Retrieval”, HK$560k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 2003/04, 10/2003-09/2005. (Collaboration with Dept of Computing, Polytechnic Univ., H.K.)


  • Co-I, "Determination of Temporal References in Chinese News Articles", HK$473k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 2002/2003, 10/2002-09/2004. (Collaboration with Dept of Computing, Polytechnic Univ., H.K.)


  • Co-I, "i-CAT: Internet-based Creativity Assessment Test", sub-contractor, HK$961,000, Hong Kong Quality Education Fund (QEF), 01/08/2001-31/07, 2003. (Collaboration with Faculty of Education, CUHK and H.K. Baptist University)


  • PI, "Towards Cost-Effective E-Business in the News Media and Publishing Industry Using NewsML", HK$6M, Innovation Technology Fund (ITF), 1/8/2001-31/7/ 2004.


  • Co-I, "Translingual Access of Chinese Text Using English", US$130,000, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA TIDES program), 04/2000-03/2003. (Collaboration with Queens College, City University of New York, (CUHK internal project no.: EE99041)


  • Co-I, "A Study on the Extraction of Events and Their Temporal Information From Internet Chinese Financial News", 120,000 RMB, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Basic Research Grant, 01/2000-12/2002. (Collaboration with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China)


  • PI, "OCF: Open Component Foundation", HK$3.7M, HKSAR Industrial Support Fund (ISF), 10/1999-03/2003.


  • Co-I, "Natural Chinese Database Query Language", 600K RMB, National Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Major Research Grant, 01/1997-12/1999. (Collaboration with Peking U. and Renmin U., China)


  • PI, "A Chinese Database Management System Interface", HK$436k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 1994-95, 07/1994-06/1998. (Ref: CU94517)


  • PI, "Towards a Natural Language Oriented Chinese Information Retrieval Engine", HK$582k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC), Earmarked Grant 1994-95, 07/1994 -06/1998. (Ref: CU94519)


  • Co-I, “Pythagoras: Performance Quality Assessment of Advanced Database Systems", 2M ECU, European ESPRIT-III project grant, 05/1992-04/ 1993.
Non-Competitive Grants
  • Research Data Management Development Fund (CUHK) “A Multi-level Knowledge-driven Customized Dialogue Dataset for General Use”, 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2023, HK$100,000.

  • Technology and Business Development Fund (CUHK) “SEVES - Semantic-driven Effective Video Extractive Summarization System”, 30/06/2022 – 31/07/2023, HK$200,000.

  • Knowledge Transfer Project Fund (CUHK) “Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) on Mental Health with Humanoid Robot for Child Well-being Therapy”, 01/04/2023 – 31/03/2025, HK$400,000.

  • Huawei (SOW) “Incorporating Memory in Large Language Model based Dialogue System 融入记忆的对话系统” 2023 – 2025, HK$2,000,000.
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  • PI,  “eLearning Analytic”, ASTRI, HK$800k, April 1 2015 to March 31, 2016. (Private Fund)

  • PI, “Rumour Detection”, Huawei, HK$800k, April 1 2013 to March 31 2015. (Private Fund)

  • PI, “CUHK Opinion Mining Platform” (TBF13ENG007), Technology and Business Development Fund during the period 1/9/2013-31/8/2014 for the sum of HK$400,000

  • PI, Cross Language Identification of Discourse Relations for Resource-poor Language (EE14316) sponsored by CUHK Research Committee Funding (Direct Grants) during the period 1/6/2015-31/5/2017 for the sum of HKD 71,000

  • Emergent Rumor Detection and Credibility Ranking on Microblogs (CU12171) sponsored by Research Grants Council - General Research Fund during the period 1/1/2013-31/12/2015 for the sum of HKD 500,000

  • Co-I,  The Great Transition Project (EE11782) sponsored by Dr. Ina Ho Chan Un-chan during the period 26/1/2012-25/1/2019 for the sum of HKD 2,000,000.00, Center for Research and Development in Management Science and Engineering (EE12840) sponsored by CUHK Shenzhen Research Institute - SZRI Start-up Support Scheme during the period 2012-09-01 to 2014-08-31 for the sum of HKD 500,000.00

  • PI, Innovation and Technology Student Club 2015 sponsored by DotAsia Organization Limited during the period 1/4/2015-31/3/2016 for the sum of HKD 30,000.00 (EE14440)

  • PI, “XML Database: Technology and Applications”, HK$800k, Strategic Grant, CUHK, 6/2003-05/ 2006.

  • PI, "CORA - Computer-assisted Open Response Analysis", HK$200k, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) Direct Grant, 02/1999-01/2000.

  • PI, “A Machine Tractable Chinese Thesaurus and its Applications to Natural Language Processing", HK$100K, Hong Kong Research Grant Council (RGC) Direct Grant, CUHK.

  • PI, "Retrieval-By-Sense - a Novice Scheme for Information Retrieval", HK$400k, Strategic grant, CUHK, 01/3/1995 -28/02/1998.

Research Contracts

  • Research Data Management Development Fund (CUHK) “A Multi-level Knowledge-driven Customized Dialogue Dataset for General Use”, 01/10/2022 – 30/09/2023, HK$100,000. 


  • Technology and Business Development Fund (CUHK) “SEVES - Semantic-driven Effective Video Extractive Summarization System”, 30/06/2022 – 31/07/2023, HK$200,000. 


  • Knowledge Transfer Project Fund (CUHK) “Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) on Mental Health with Humanoid Robot for Child Well-being Therapy”, 01/04/2023 – 31/03/2025, HK$400,000. 


  • Huawei (SOW) “Incorporating Memory in Large Language Model based Dialogue System 融入记忆的对话系统” 2023 – 2025, HK$2,000,000. 


  • PI, Colloquial Cantonese Mining & Identification Technology Development (EE14463) sponsored by Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) Company Limited during the period 28/4/2015-28/9/2016 for the sum of HKD 800,000.00


  • PI, IT Exploration Tours for Secondary Students During the International IT Fest 2015 (EE14457) sponsored by Hong Kong Association for Computer Education during the period 13/4/2015-21/4/2015 for the sum of HKD 50,000.00


  • PI, Innovation and Technology Student Club 2015 (EE14440) sponsored by Zensis Limited during the period 1/4/2015-31/3/2016 for the sum of HKD 35,000.00


  • PI, Fusion between Chinese Cultural Arts and Robotics (Phase 2) (EE14927) sponsored by Intel China Ltd during the period 1/9/2014-29/2/2016 for the sum of HKD 335,700.00


  • PI, “Rumor Detection”, (EE13781) sponsored by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd during the period 31/12/2013-31/5/ 2015 for the sum of HKD 800,000.00


  • PI, “2007 Internet-based Robotics Inter-School (IRIS) Competition”, HK$500k, Shun Hing Education Foundation, 2007 (Private Fund)


  • PI, “2006 Greater China Database Research Summit”, Hong Kong, 16-17/2006, (PI, HK$100k, Oracle HK Ltd;), (Private Fund)


  • PI, HK$80k, Pei Hua Education Foundation; and PI, HK$30k, K. C. Wong Education Foundation, HK$210k (Private Fund)


  • PI, “2006 Internet-based Robotics Inter-School (IRIS) Competition”, HK$500k, Shun Hing Education Foundation, 2006.


  • PI, “Digital Asset Management System – NewsML CIDAX Gateway”, HK$98k, private consultancy project funded by LinkPower Tech. Co. Ltd and HK Sc. and Tech. Park Ltd., 06/2003-11/2003.