Twenty-Two CEE Projects Secure General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2024/25

Newsletter Dec 2024

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Twenty-Two CEE Projects Secure General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2024/25

We are pleased to share that 22 CEE projects have been awarded a total grant of HK$23.1 million from the Research Grants Council’s General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) 2024/25. It is worth noting that CEE accounts for 20 projects among the 42 funded PolyU projects from GRF under the field of “Civil Engineering, Surveying, Building & Construction”, with a total funding amount reaching HK$21.9 million.

The GRF and the ECS are individual research funding schemes under RGC. The GRF aims to supplement universities' own research support for researchers who have achieved or have the potential to achieve excellence, while the ECS intends to nurture junior academics and prepare them for a career in education and research.

Kudos to all CEE scholars whose unwavering commitment in research excellence have made this achievement possible. Moving forward, CEE will continue to pursue high-calibre research and bring positive impact to the society.

Twenty CEE Projects Receiving General Research Fund (GRF):

Project Title	Principal Investigator (In Alphabetical Order of Surname)	Fund Awarded (HK$)
One-Part Alkali-Activation Approach for Resource Recovery from Steel Industry Byproducts for Carbon Neutrality	Dr Yazan ALREFAEI	865,385
Bayesian Full-waveform Inversion for Leak Localization in Uncertainty-riddled Water Supply Pipes	Dr Tong-chuan CHE	1,134,931
Exponentiated Random Utility Model: From Individual Travel Choices to Network Equilibrium Analysis of Transportation Systems	Prof. Anthony CHEN	942,702
Flow Evolution Characteristics, Dynamic Instability Mechanism, and Aerodynamic Load Rebalancing Method for High-speed Maglev Train Operational Safety in Time-varying Wind Environments: From Numerical Modelling to Model Testing	Dr Zheng-wei CHEN	1,134,931
Catalytically Reconstructed Covalent Organic Framework Membranes for Water Purification	Dr Yi JIANG	1,134,931
How Urbanization Alters Airborne Fungal Communities and Antifungal Resistance as Part of What Humans Breathe	Dr Ling JIN	1,005,833
Empowering a Multifunctional Acoustically Driven TENG-based Particulate Capturing System for a Healthy Living Environment	Dr S.K. LAI	1,134,931
A Novel Thermal Healing System Based on Nano-Carbon Coating of Aggregate towards More Durable Porous Asphalt Road Surfaces: Mechanism Investigation and Performance Optimization	Prof. Zhen LENG	1,134,931
Investigation of Shear Transfer Behaviour of Low-carbon high-performance Materials for Rock-socketed Steel H-piles	Dr Andy Y.F. LEUNG	1,134,931
Network-wide Traffic Flow Estimation with Sparse Volume Detectors and Global Open Multi-Source Data: An Integrated Data-driven and Model-based Method on Computational Graphs	Dr Wei MA	1,134,931
Application of Embossed Cold-Formed Steel Sections for Remedy to Instability Failure and Reuse Design	Dr Sivaganesh SELVARAJ	990,228
Natural and Anthropogenic Influence on the Long-term Morphodynamic Evolution of the Lingdingyang Estuary under Climate Changes	Dr Alessandro STOCCHINO	1,134,931
Unveil the Mystery of Coastal Rogue Waves: Spatiotemporal Evolution Mechanisms and Predictions	Dr Jing-Hua WANG	1,134,931
Intra- and Inter-graph Learning towards Structural Health Monitoring with Edge Computing	Dr Xiaoyou WANG	1,134,931
Multiscale, Multiphysics Modelling of Water Ice-Bearing Lunar Regolith Considering Thermal, Vacuum, and Microgravity Effects	Dr Meng-meng WU	1,134,931
From Air to Human Airway: Colonization of Occupationally Acquired Bacteria in the Upper Respiratory Tract of Workers in Wastewater Treatment Plants	Dr Jia-wen XIE	1,134,931
Multiscale Multiphysics Study of Scour-induced Bearing Capacity Degradation of Suction Anchor Foundation in Sandy Seabed	Prof. Zhen-Yu YIN	1,134,931
Hybrid FRP Tube-Confined Prestressed Wind Turbine Towers	Prof. Tao YU	1,134,931
Behaviour and Design of High-strength U-rib-stiffened Orthotropic Steel Decks under Fatigue Loading	Prof. Xiao Lin ZHAO	1,134,931
Novel Latched Tuned Mass Dampers for Vibration Control of Flexible Structures with Ultra-low Frequencies	Prof. Songye ZHU	1,134,931