Six Faculty from the School of Data Science Receiving General Research Funds

Six Faculty from the School of Data Science Receiving General Research Funds

The School of Data Science (SDSC) has been awarded HK$4.26M for six research projects as part of the 2022/23 General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) announced by the Research Grants Council (RGC). SDSC continues to succeed in developing a strong research culture which indicates that we have a high quality research capability and environment.

We congratulate our principal investigators, including Professor Minghua CHEN, Professor Junhui WANG, Dr. Matthias TAN, Dr. Xiang ZHOU, Dr. Long FENG and Dr. Xiao QIAO on their remarkable achievements, and look forward to their outstanding research outputs. Details of the funded grants are as follows:

Details of the funded grants are as follows:

Name of PI Project Title Grant Awarded Scheme
Professor Minghua CHEN Developing Deep Neural Network Schemes for Solving Optimal Power Flow Problems: Solution Feasibility and Multiple Load-Solution Mappings 1.1M GRF
Professor Junhui WANG A Statistical Framework for Structure-Preserving Embedding of Signed Networks 1M GRF
Dr. Matthias TAN Bayesian optimization for robust parameter design based on quantiles of the loss distribution 0.4M GRF
Dr. Xiang ZHOU Topics on Dynamics and Algorithms for Saddle Point Calculation 0.6M GRF
Dr. Long FENG A Statistical Approach to High-dimension High-order Spatial-Temporal Data Clustering 0.7M ECS
Dr. Xiao QIAO Understanding Commodity Markets via Return Predictability 0.4M ECS