Research Grants and Projects

The following research projects in School of Data Science are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2026-27 round.

Principal Investigator(s)
Division
Project Title
Research Grant
Professor DENG Yiqin
DIDS
Building Expandable UAV-enabled Computing Power Networks: Towards Resilient and Adaptive Edge Intelligence
ECS
Professor LIN Zehong
DIDS
3D Gaussian splatting-based wireless channel modeling for future wireless networks
ECS
Professor LIU Zhengzhe
DIDS
Physics-Aware Single-Image 3D Scene Generation for Interactive Simulation
ECS
Professor PAN Xiang
DIDS
Rate-Distortion-Complexity Optimized Latent Coding for Neural Image Compression
ECS
Professor QIN Si Zhao Joe
DAI
Long-term Error Augmented Predictive (LEAP) Learning with Transformers for Smart Building Cooling Load Predictions
GRF
Professor SHEN Jiaxing
DAI
A Comprehensive Framework for Personality-Aware Conversational AI: Data, Recognition, Induction, and Validation
GRF
Professor YAO Xin
DIDS
Co-evolving more generalisable Parallel Algorithm portfolios with Limited training instances (CoPAL)
GRF

The following research projects in School of Data Science are supported by the Research Grants Council in the 2025-26 round.

Principal Investigator(s)
Division
Project Title
Research Grant
Professor CHAN Raymond Hon Fu
DAI
Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Graph Neural Networks
GRF
Professor KWONG Sam Tak Wu
DAI
Advancing Scalable Point Cloud Compression with Hierarchical Representation
GRF
Professor QIN Si Zhao Joe
DAI
Reduced-dimensional predictor learning of co-dynamic data from dynamic systems
GRF
Professor WANG Meng
DAI
Large-Scale Visual Scene Data Compression and Intelligent Representation
ECS