Funding and Awards

My research has been supported by competitive public funding, industry-backed research support, and highly selective fellowship schemes across Hong Kong, Canada, and Australia.

Across grants, fellowships, and industry support, this work has attracted more than half a million US dollars in research funding and related support.

Research Funding

  • Faculty of Science Ignite Program, Co-PI with Jie Zhang, Tomohiro Yasukawa, and Sebastian Thomas, Monash University, AUD 9,500, 2026.
  • SIGSOFT Summer/Winter School Funding 2026–2027, PI with Xi Zheng (Macquarie), Hoa Khanh Dam (Wollongong), Thong Hoang (CSIRO's Data61), Hong Jin Kang (Sydney), Guoxin Su (Wollongong), and Xiao Cheng (Macquarie), ACM SIGSOFT, for the proposal Beyond Prompt and Harness Engineering: Software Engineering Foundations for Trustworthy AI Systems.
  • General Research Fund (RGC Hong Kong), Co-Investigator, HKD 779K.
  • Innovation and Technology Fund, main contributor, HKD 1.7M.
  • National Key R&D Program of China, main contributor, RMB 2M.
  • Cisco Research Grant, CAD 50K.
  • Microsoft Asia Cloud Research Software Fellow Award, USD 5K.
  • UROP Support Grant, PI, HKUST.

Awards and Fellowships

  • Distinguished Reviewer Award, ASE 2025.
  • MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships, 2025, highly competitive European fellowship.
  • Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme, 2017–2020, the most prestigious doctoral fellowship in Hong Kong.
  • GO-Bell Scholarship, University of Waterloo, 2020–2022.

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