Three scholars from Faculty of Engineering received awards from the 2024-25 Research Grants Council (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme and RGC Research Fellow Scheme in recognition of their distinguished research achievements. Professor Michael Lyu Rung-tsong, Choh-ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, and Professor Zhao Ni, Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering were named in the RGC Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS). Professor Lyu’s research project is “Evaluation, Exploration, and Application of Large Language Models on Code Intelligence”, while Professor Zhao’s is “Development of Optical Sensing Technologies for Early Detection and Ambulatory Monitoring of Cardiovascular and Cerebral Diseases”. Each SRFS awardee will be given the title “RGC Senior Research Fellow” and CUHK will receive a fellowship grant of about HK$8 million per award to cover salary costs for relief teachers and support for research projects over a period of 60 months. Professor Yu Bei, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering was named in the RGC Research Fellow Scheme (RFS). His research project is “Machine Learning Driven VLSI Mask Optimisation”. Each RFS awardee will be given the title “RGC Research Fellow” and CUHK will receive a fellowship grant of about HK$5.3 million per award to cover salary costs for relief teachers and support for research projects over a period of 60 months. More details: https://www.cpr.cuhk.edu.hk/en/press/four-cuhk-scholars-named-rgc-senior-research-fellows-and-research-fellows/ |
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