Our Faculty Members from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Hong Kong have achieved outstanding results in securing funding from multiple prestigious research schemes. The funded projects address cutting-edge domains vital to future advancement, including artificial intelligence (AI), advanced biomedical and healthcare technologies, information technology, new materials science, and related high-impact fields. This achievement demonstrates HKU Engineering’s leadership in driving cross-disciplinary research endeavours and cross-institutional collaborations, highlighting the excellence in academic research and innovation.
NSFC/RGC Collaborative Research Scheme 2025/26
Project: Portable Organic-based Short-Wavelength Infra-Red Detector Arrays for Deep Tissue Biomedical Imaging
Principal Investigator: Professor Wallace Chik Ho Choy
NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme 2025/26
Project: Algorithm-Hardware Co-design for Efficient Autoregressive Visual Generation
Principal Investigator: Professor Xihui Liu
Project: Heterogeneous Photonic Integrated Circuits for High-precision Optical Ranging and Sensing
Principal Investigator: Professor Chao Xiang
Project: High Endurance and High Tunnelling Electroresistance Tunnelling Junction Memory Based on van der Waals Sliding Ferroelectricity
Principal Investigator: Professor Han Wang
For more details of the above projects receiving funding under NSFC/RGC Joint and Collaborative Research Schemes, please visit the news on the HKU Press HERE.
RGC Research Impact Fund 2025/26
Project: Gallium Nitride Chip Technology for Vertical Power Delivery to AI Processors in Data Centres
Principal Investigator: Professor Yuhao Zhang
RGC Collaborative Research Fund 2025/26
Project: Wafer-scale Integrated III-V/lithium Niobate Lasers and Photonic Circuits
Principal Investigator: Professor Chao Xiang
For more details of the above research projects receiving funding under RGC schemes, please visit the news on the HKU Press HERE.
Health and Medical Research Fund (HMRF) 2023
Project: Deep-learning Label-free Single-cell Morphological Profiling for Prognostication of Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Principal Investigator: Professor Kevin Tsia
Innovation and Technology Fund
Project: AI-empowered Automotive Sensing & Imaging System with Learned Stereo Optics and Image Recovery Networks
Principal Investigator: Professor Yifan Evan Peng
Source from the Faculty News: https://engg.hku.hk/News-Events/News/issue/2026-02#8728