The School of Computing and Data Science (https://www.cds.hku.hk/) was established by the University of Hong Kong on 1 July 2024, comprising the Department of Computer Science and Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science and Department of AI and Data Science.

22 CDS Professors Receive More Than HKD$19.5M Research Funding from Research Grants Council (RGC) 2025-26 Exercise

Congratulations to the following professors who obtained the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) award in the 2025/2026 grant application exercise! 

In this round, the HKU School of Computing and Data Science (CDS) obtained 19 GRFs and 3 ECSs, securing a total of more than HKD$19.5M.   

The list of awardees, and the titles of their grants are as follows: 

GRF

  • Prof. Yuan CAO, Deep Learning with Fewer Labels: Algorithmic Advances and Theoretical Foundations
  • Prof. Hubert CHAN, Generalized Density Decompositions: A Unified Framework for Advancing Differential Privacy, Market Dynamics, and Online Allocation
  • Prof. Reynold CHENG, Hypothesis Testing for Large Graph Databases
  • Prof. Giulio CHIRIBELLA, Quantum process thermodynamics for the design of resource-efficient quantum technologies
  • Prof. Edwin FONG, Nonparametric Martingale Posteriors for Markov Processes
  • Prof. Shenghua GAO, Stereo Videos for Photorealistic and Geometrically Correct 3D and 4D Generation
  • Prof. Kai HAN, Geometry-aware and physics-grounded dynamic 3D scene modeling, understanding, and interaction
  • Prof. Zhiyi HUANG, Contract Design and Information Design Under an Uncertain Prior
  • Prof. Guodong LI, Interpretable and Efficient Autoregressive Models for High-Dimensional Tensor-Valued Time Series
  • Prof. Ping LUO, Safety-Driven Diffusion Policy for Embodied AI in Elderly Care
  • Prof. Bruno OLIVEIRA, Local Contextual Type Inference
  • Prof. Jia PAN, Resilient Hierarchical Imitation Learning for Long-Horizon General-Purpose Manipulation
  • Prof. Ravishankar RAMANATHAN, Advances in (Semi)-Device-Independent Quantum Cryptography using Generalised Bell and Kochen-Specker Theorems.
  • Prof. Chenshu WU, Transforming Wireless Sensing via Interpretable Deep Learning with White-Box Transformers
  • Prof. Chuan WU, Optimizing Large Multimodal Model Training and Inference
  • Prof. Yuxiang YANG, Towards the ultimate precision of noisy many-body quantum metrology.
  • Prof. Lequan YU, Adapting Pathology Foundation Models with Clinically Relevant Knowledge for Precise Soft Tissue Sarcoma Diagnosis and Prognosis
  • Prof. Hengshuang ZHAO, Holistic 4D Scene Understanding with Point Cloud Vectorization
  • Prof. Difan ZOU, Towards the Foundation of Diffusion Inference and Score Learning in Diffusion Models: Advanced Theories and New Algorithms-


ECS

  • Prof. Weiming FENG, Sampling and Approximate Counting for Undirected Graphical Models via Influence Bounds
  • Prof. Liangqiong QU, Vision Language Foundation Intelligent System for Early CNS Tumor Diagnosis and Interpretation from Presurgical Multi-Modal Data
  • Prof. Zhenqin WU, Foundation Models for Multiplexed Imaging: Methods and Applications

We wish our professors all the best for the start of the exciting research planned in their grants!  

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