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Eleven Research Projects Receive Grants

  1. Promoting Physical Activity among Adolescents in Hong Kong Using an Internet-based Program (HK$263,606)
    Sponsors: Health Care and Promotion Fund—Non-research Health Promotion Projects
    Principal investigator: Prof. Wong Heung-sang Stephen (Department of Sports Science and Physical Education)
  2. The Stress-reducing Effects of Therapeutic Play on Children undergoing Cast-removal Procedure (HK$240,000)
    Sponsors: Playright Children’s Play Association
    Principal investigator: Prof. Ip Wan-yim (The Nethersole School of Nursing)
  3. Development of Geographic-feature-based PSInSAR 3D Deformation Monitoring System (HK$3,703,000)
    Sponsors: Innovation and Technology Fund: University-Industry Collaboration Programme—Matching Grant for Joint Research Scheme
    Principal investigator: Prof. Lin Hui (Institute of Space and Earth Information Sciences)
  4. Interactive Cognitive Training System for the Elderly based on Kinect v2 (HK$155,000)
    Sponsors: Research Grant from Microsoft Research Asia
    Principal investigator: Prof. Tong Kai-yu Raymond (Department of Electronic Engineering)
  5. Combinatorial Online Learning by Trial and Error (HK$155,000)
    Sponsors: Research Grant from Microsoft Research Asia
    Principal investigator: Prof. Zhang Shengyu (Department of Computer Science and Engineering)
  6. Integrated Thermal Energy Harvesting and Storage for Autonomous Wireless Sensor Network (HK$6,843,777)
    Sponsors: Innovation and Technology Fund—Innovation and Technology Support Programme
    Principal investigator: Prof. Lu Yi-chun (Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering)
  7. 2nd Biennial Asia-Pacific Conference on Making Difficult Clinical and Policy Decisions: The Example of Ageing and End of Life Care in Asia-Pacific (HK$100,000)
    Sponsors: The Croucher Foundation—Sponsorship of Conferences, Workshops and Symposia 2015–2016
    Principal investigator: Prof. Katrina Tsang and Prof. Yi Huso (The Jockey Club School of Public Health and Primary Care)
  8. Multiscale Biosensing for Innovative Medicine (HK$600,000)
    Sponsors: The Croucher Foundation—Croucher Advanced Study Institute 2015–2016
    Principal investigator: Prof. Mak Fuk-tat Arthur (Department of Electronic Engineering; Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering)
  9. The 4th Institute Mathematical Statistics—Asia Pacific Rim Meeting (HK$100,000)
    Sponsors: The Croucher Foundation—Sponsorship of Conferences, Workshops and Symposia 2015–2016
    Principal investigator: Prof. Shao Qiman (Department of Statistics)
  10. Changing Urban Climate & the Impact on Urban Thermal Environment and Urban Living: ASI 1: Urban Climate; SAI 2: Urban Comfort (HK$600,000)
    Sponsors: The Croucher Foundation—Croucher Advanced Study Institute 2015–2016
    Principal investigator: Prof. Ng Yan-yung Edward (School of Architecture)
  11. Real-Time Re-optimization for Public Transportation Disruptions Management Using Urban Data (HK$155,000)
    Sponsors: Research Grant from Microsoft Research Asia
    Principal investigator: Prof. Kuo Yong-hong (Stanley Ho Big Data Decision Analytics Research Centre)

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