HKU Engineering Research Projects Awarded Prestigious Research Grants for 2024/2025

May 27, 2025

HKU Engineering scholars from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) achieved outstanding results in the 2024-2025 round of research grant funding under several schemes by Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council (RGC). The details of the funded projects are as follows:

Principal Investigator: Professor Kaibin HUANG
Project Title: Space-ground Integrated Intelligent Computing and Networking for 6G Large-scale Constellations
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$3,563,968

For more information about NSFC/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme, please visit link

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Principal Investigator: Professor Can LI
Project Title: Heterogenous in-memory computing hardware technologies for fast and efficient genomic analysis
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$4,500,000

For more information about Collaborative Research Fund, please visit link.

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Principal Investigator: Professor On Kwok Victor LI
Project Title: A Large Language Model (LLM) Driven Approach for Advancing Low Cost Timely Speech Based Late Onset Alzheimer’s Disease (LOAD) Prediction   
Amount Awarded by RGC: HK$ 389,000

For more information about Healthy Longevity Catalyst Awards, please visit link.

(eNews source: https://engg.hku.hk/News-Events/News/issue/2025-04#8420)