PAIR Seed Fund Projects

The PAIR Seed Funds for Large Proposal Efforts Programme aims to support PAIR researchers in undertaking interdisciplinary research projects that demonstrate potential for securing funding from external sources, growing and scaling up into larger initiatives. The Programme has awarded seed funding totalling HK$4.5 million to four projects, which published 21 papers and some of them have secured external funds to support further research works.

4 PAIR Seed Fund Projects

Project Information	PAIR Research Units Involved	Key Outcomes in 2023/24
Sustainable and Smart Floating Farms (S²F²) Principal Investigator: Prof. ZHAO Xiaolin Amount Awarded (HK$) in 2022/23: 1.82M Project Period: Sep 2022 - Jun 2024	Research Institute for Land and Space Research Institute for Future Food Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things Photonics Research Institute Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Research Institute for Smart Energy	Published seven papers Submitted proposals to Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) & Research, Academic and Industry Sectors One-plus Scheme (RAISe+) Organised an international workshop and the 4th World Conference on Floating Solutions
Integrated Ferroelectronics for Non-volatile In-memory Computing Principal Investigator: Prof. CHAI Yang Amount Awarded (HK$) in 2022/23: 1.06M Project Period: Sep 2022 - Jun 2024	Research Institute for Research Institute for Intelligent Wearable Systems Photonics Research Institute	Published two papers Secured fundings from: Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Key Research and Development Project (RMB 3.43M); and National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) joint research project (HK$ 3.59M) Established a Joint Research Center for Microelectronics with Peking University Submitted proposals to Research Impact Fund (RIF) & Strategic Topics Grant (STG) under RGC
Screening and Assessment of Ageing-Related Neuromusculoskeletal Diseases Using Ultrasound Imaging Powered by AI and Robotics Principal Investigator: Prof. ZHENG Yongping Amount Awarded (HK$) in 2022/23: 0.81M Project Period: Sep 2022 - Jun 2024	Research Institute for Smart Ageing Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things	Published ten papers Submitted proposals to TRS & STG under RGC Further efforts for commercialisation are currently underway
From Code is Law to Law is Code: Towards Intelligent Regulation of Artificial Intelligence Principal Investigator: Prof. LU Haitian Amount Awarded (HK$) in 2022/23: 0.8M Project Period: Sep 2022 - Jun 2025	Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence of Things	Published two papers Submitted proposals to TRS, RIF & RAISe+ Delivered keynote speeches at two international conferences