On 7 July 2023, the Research Grant Council (RGC) announced the results of the RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) 2023/24. This year, RGC received a total of 35 nominations for the RFS from the 8 UGC-funded universities. After a rigorous assessment process, Professor Li Buyang, from the Department of Applied Mathematics, was selected as one of the 10 RFS awardees. Professor Li is the only awardee from PolyU in this round of exercise, and he will receive a fellowship grant of approximately HK$5.2 million over a period of 60 months.
Professor Li joined PolyU in 2016 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics. He obtained his MPhil and PhD degrees in Applied Mathematics from City University of Hong Kong in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Professor Li’s research interests focus on numerical analysis. He received numerous awards, including The Hong Kong Mathematical Society Young Scholars Award in 2022, an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship 2015/16, and the First Prize for Young Computational Mathematicians from the China Society for Computational Mathematics in 2013. Professor Li also serves on the editorial boards of prestigious journals, including Mathematics of Computation, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, and IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis.
RGC Research Fellow Scheme
The RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS) (or RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS)) aims to provide sustained support and relief from teaching and administrative duties to exceptionally outstanding researchers at Associate Professor rank (or full Professor rank) at UGC-funded universities in Hong Kong, with a view to facilitating their full dedication to research and development and helping universities attract and retain research talent.
In each round of this yearly exercise, RFS will provide ten places encompassing all academic disciplines. Each awardee will receive support for a period of 60 months in the manner of relief from teaching and administrative duties, and research funding support covering salary costs for relief teachers and support for research project including staff, equipment, travel, subsistence and dissemination costs.
For details, please visit RGC website https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/rrfs/index.html.
