Grants & Funding
The Information Engineering Department has long been engaging in forefront research and development activities in information Technologies. Our commitment in research can be reflected by our continued success in securing internal and external research funding. Over the past three years, we received around 96 million HK dollars of the competitive grants spreading across 23 projects. In the same period, other research grants from both internal and external sources for 31 projects exceeded 7.9 million HKD.
Over that period, a number of research projects of excellence were established in response to the growing industrial need and the strategic directions set forth by the Government, Prof. S.-Y. Robert Li and Prof. W. H. Raymond Yeung, co-founders of the field of network coding, established the Institute of Network Coding in CUHK under the an Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme funded by the University Grants Committee. The total budget exceeds $100M.
- Area of Excellence (AoE) Grant
- RGC General Research Fund (GRF) Grant
- Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) Grant
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) Grant
- The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) Grant
- Industrial Grants / Private Fundings
- Other Grants
Area of Excellence (AoE) Grant
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. LI Shou-yen & Prof. YEUNG Wai-ho |
Institute of Network Coding | 84 | 80,270,000 |
| Total | 80,270,000 |
RGC General Research Fund (GRF) Grant
2018-19
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEN Lian-kuan | High-speed Solar-Panel/Image-Sensor based VLC for Smart Cities: Design Challenges and Advanced Signal Processing | 30 | 583,333 |
| Prof. CHOW Sze-ming | Password-Hardening Services --- Key Encapsulation, Anonymous Rate-Limiting, Multiple Servers, and More | 36 | 875,000 |
| Prof. JAGGI Sidharth | Group testing: Non-linear estimation problems | 36 | 304,301 |
| Prof. LIN Dahua | Understanding Visual Stories with a Knowledge Base | 36 | 693,000 |
| Prof. LOK Tat-ming | Multiuser relay networks with simultaneous wireless information and power transfer | 36 | 495,086 |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra | Two new directions for some fundamental problems in multiuser information theory | 36 | 612,950 |
| Prof. Vontobel Pascal O. | Reliable communication over quantum channels with memory | 36 | 495,086 |
| Prof. ZHANG Kehuan | Studies on the Security Implications of Non-Digital Components in Computing Systems | 36 | 490,400 |
| Total | 4,549,156 |
2017-18
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. BAKSHI Mayank * | Confusability, Covertness, and Collusion: Information Theoretic Deniability against Coercing Eavesdroppers | 36 | 634,560 |
| Prof. CHEN Lian-kuan | Spectrally-efficient Multiple Access for Multi-user Visible Light Communications | 30 | 583,333 |
| Prof. CHOW Sze-ming | Sublinear Multi-Writer Searchable Encryption --- Bridging Symmetric-Key to Public-Key Paradigm | 36 | 700,000 |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Wireless Rate-Diverse Broadcast with Side Information: From Theory to Practical Implementations | 36 | 600,000 |
| Prof. LOY Chen-change | Synthesizing Fashion by Semantically-Constrained and Competing Deep Adversarial Networks | 36 | 500,000 |
| Prof. SHUM Wing Ki * | Fast decoding of storage codes | 36 | 600,000 |
| Prof. WONG Wing-shing | Networked Control over Open Communication Networks | 30 | 413,204 |
| Prof. VONTOBEL Pascal O. | Analysis of Low-Density Parity-Check Codes via Double Covers and Beyond | 36 | 600,000 |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun | On Scalable Radio Resource Virtualization in Cloud Radio Access Networks | 36 | 495,846 |
| Total | 5,126,943 | ||
| * The Affiliation of PI is Institute of Network Coding. | |||
2016-17
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEN Lian-kuan | High-speed Mobile Visible Light Communications and Networking for Eco-friendly Underwater and Intelligent Transportation Applications | 24 | 321,737 |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Collaborative Economics of Wireless Networks | 36 | 675,647 |
| Prof. JAGGI Sidharth | Communication in the Presence of Adversaries: Between Shannon and Hamming | 36 | 488,501 |
| Prof. LIN Dahua | Towards a Scalable Framework for Web-scale Semantic Tagging of Images | 36 | 482,605 |
| Prof. LOK Tat-ming | Network Coded Interference Alignment | 36 | 482,605 |
| Prof. LOY Chen-change | Joint Attribute Recognition and Image Hallucination by Deep Global-Local Convolutional Network | 36 | 675,204 |
| Prof. LU Lu * | Wireless Jumbo Message | 36 | 675,647 |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra | Hypercontractive inequalities via information theory | 36 | 548,059 |
| Prof. TANG Xiaoou | Unsupervised Deep Convolutional Network Learning of Discriminative Representation | 36 | 675,204 |
| Prof. ZHANG Kehuan | Study and Development of Key Technologies for Secure Configuration and Authentication in IoT Systems | 36 | 675,647 |
| Total | 5,828,444 | ||
| * The Affiliation of PI is Institute of Network Coding. | |||
2015-16
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEN Lian-kuan | Advanced Modulation Formats using Directly Modulated Lasers and Full-Field Detection Receivers | 24 | 329,377 |
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Delay-Constrained Network Information Flow: Characterizing Timely Routing and Coding Capacities | 36 | 696,029 |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Economic Mechanism Design for Mobile Crowd Sensing | 36 | 696,029 |
| Prof. JAGGI Sidharth | Communication that is Information Theoretically Reliable and Undetectable | 36 | 451,255 |
| Prof. LIN Dahua | Recognizing Events from Web Images: An Integrative Approach | 36 | 776,075 |
| Prof. WONG Wing-shing | Learning in Information-Based Pursuit-Evasion Games | 24 | 462,696 |
| Prof. ZHANG Kehuan | FirmCracker: Tools and Algorithms to Support Dynamic Analysis of Security Critical Code for Embedded System | 24 | 359,408 |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun | Primary Frequency Control by Battery Energy Storage Systems | 36 | 696,029 |
| Total | 4,466,898 |
2014-15
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHAN Chun-kit | Design and Applications of Physical-Layer Network Coding for High-Speed Optical Systems and Networks | 30 | 692,894 |
| Prof. CHAN Chung | Matroidal Network Link Model | 36 | 500,000 |
| Prof. CHEN Lian-kuan | Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Based Coherent Burst-Mode Receivers | 24 | 875,000 |
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Optimizing Energy Cost for Power-Proportional Data Centers by Geographic Load-Balancing: A Holistic Approach | 36 | 500,000 |
| Prof. CHIU Dah-ming | Data Analytics and Operations Research for Large-scale Internet Video Distribution Services | 30 | 500,000 |
| Prof. CHOW Sze-ming | Searchable Encryption: General Framework and Practical Constructions | 36 | 692,894 |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Building Future Mobile Broadband Networks with Cellular Wi-Fi Integrations | 36 | 691,167 |
| Prof. LEE Yiu-bun | Predicting the Unpredictable - A New Approach to Providing Statistical Performance Guarantees in Mobile Video Streaming | 36 | 692,894 |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Physical-Layer Network Coding for Multiple Access | 36 | 875,000 |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra | Hypercontractive inequalities via information theory | 36 | 548,059 |
| Prof. WONG Wing-shing | Control of Adaptive Formations | 36 | 500,000 |
| Prof. ZHANG Yingjun | Towards a Scalable Wireless Cellular Cloud: Collaborative Signal Processing and Resource Management | 36 | 692,894 |
| Total | 7,760,802 |
2013-14
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHOW Sze-ming | Accountable Privacy in Online Communication (Grant for Educational Activities) | 36 | 100,000 |
| Prof. CHOW Sze-ming | Accountable Privacy in Online Communication | 36 | 816,000 |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Coordination and Competition in Shared Spectrum: Market Mechanisms and Protocol Designs | 36 | 836,450 |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Iterative Algorithms for Multiple-Parameter Estimation and Channel Decoding in Physical-Layer Network Coding System | 36 | 768,000 |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra | Additive Gaussian Noise Channels in Network Information Theory: Determining the Ooptimality of Gaussian Inputs and Other Optimizing Distributions | 36 | 500,000 |
| Prof. TANG Xiaoou | Visual Semantic Complex Network | 36 | 645,500 |
| Total | 3,665,950 |
2012-13
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHAN Chun-kit | Novel Optical Techniques to Monitor the Performance of Optical Orthogonal-Frequency-Division-Multiplexing (OFDM) Signals in Flexible Optical Transport Networks | 30 | 700,000 |
| Prof. LEE Tong | A Communication Network Architecture with Virtual Circuit Switching and Deflection Routing for QoS Guarantees | 36 | 700,000 |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Building Blocks of Physical-Layer Network Coding | 36 | 905,425 |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra | Towards Determing Capacity Regions in Network Information Theory: New Directions and Techniques | 36 | 500,000 |
| Prof. TANG Xiaoou | Age Invariant and Pose Robust Face Recognition for Children Faces Recognition on the Internet | 24 | 500,000 |
| Prof. YUAN Xiaojun | Design of Reliable Physical-Layer Network Coding for MIMO Relay Networks | 36 | 905,425 |
| Total | 4,210,850 |
2011-2012
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Characterizing and Optimizing Delay Performance in Peer-to-Peer Systems | 36 | 922,500 |
| Prof. CHIU Dah-ming | Content Replication Strategies for Large-scale Content Delivery Platforms | 36 | 531,000 |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Economic Viability of Dynamic Spectrum Management | 36 | 937,500 |
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | Asynchronous Physical-Layer Network Coding | 36 | 608,000 |
| Total | 2,999,000 |
2010-2011
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEN Lian-kuan | Novel Electronic Equalizers using Diverse Optical Filtering for the Mitigation of Chromatic Dispersion and Fiber Nonlinearity-Induced Impairments | 30 | 750,000 |
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Stochastic Models and Optimization of Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Systems | 36 | 499,390 |
| Prof. HUANG Jianwei | Revenue Management for Wireless Data Networks | 40 | 1,008,000 |
| Prof. LAU Wing-cheong | Channel-oblivious Counting Algorithms for Large-scale RFID Applications | 30 | 726,000 |
| Prof. NAIR Chandra | Discrete memoryless broadcast channels - a network information theoretic study | 30 | 665,854 |
| Prof. TANG Xiaoou | Efficient Face Clustering Using Statistical Context and Photo Quality Filtering | 36 | 828,000 |
| Total | 4,477,244 |
Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF) Grant
2017-2018
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. WONG Wing-shing | Integrated Networked Control for Massively IoT Devices | 24 | 3,047,000 |
| Total | 3,047,000 |
2016-2017
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. JAGGI Sidharth | A Spare Recovery Approach for High-Throughput Energy – Efficient Wireless Networks (Phase II) | 24 | 2,127,935 |
| Prof. LAU Wing-cheong | Adaptive Model-based Security Testing for Single-Sing-On Services in Mobile Applications | 24 | 1,666,520.8 |
| Total | 3,794,455.8 |
2015-2016
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. LIEW Soung-chang | IoT/Smart City: Communications Networks & Data Analytics for Intelligent Transportation Systems | 24 | 2,432,224 |
| Prof. Prof. TANG Xiaoou (PI) and Prof. CHAN Yuen-yan (CO/I) | Semantic Image-Based Cloud Augmentative & Alternative Communication (Cloud AAC) System | 21 | 1,570,830 |
| Total | 4,003,054 |
2014-2015
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. JAGGI Sidharth | A Spare Recovery Approach for High-Throughput Energy – Efficient Wireless Networks | 24 | 1,854,051.6 |
| Prof. LAU Wing-cheong | Authenticated Paper: Protecting Paper-based Documents//Credentials using High-capacity Authenticated 2D Barcodes | 18 | 1,768,350 |
| Total | 3,622,401.6 |
2013-2014
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEN Minghua | Indoor White Space Communication System | 18 | 1,398,400 |
| Prof. LAU Wing Cheong | Authenticated Paper: Protecting Paper-based Documents//Credentials using High-capacity Authenticated 2D Barcodes | 18 | 1,390,350 |
| Total | 2,788,750 |
2011-2012
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. LEE Yiu-bun | Traffic Accelerator for Mobile Data Network | 21 | 1,477,209.6 |
| Prof. LEE Yiu-bun | Real-Time Application-Layer Performance Analyzer for Mobile Data Networks | 18 | 994,750 |
| Total | 2,471,959.6 |
2009-2010
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. LAU Wing-cheong | An Extensive Distributed Measurement Platform for Analyzing Quality-of-Experience (QoE) of Multimedia Applications over Wireless Networks | 21 | 1,332,520 |
| Total | 1,332,520 |
National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) / Research Grants Council (RGC) Grant
2009-2010
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. CHEUNG Kwok-wai | Next Generation Resilient, Dynamic, Ultra-High Capacity Core Optical Network based on Optical Flow Switching | 24 | 616,220 |
| Total | 616,220 |
The Office of the Telecommunications Authority (OFTA) Grant
2009-2010
| Principal Investigator(s) | Project Title | Duration (months) |
Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prof. LAU Wing-cheong | An Extensible Distributed Measurement Platform on Mobile Devices for Healthcare Monitoring & Personal Wellness | 12 | 399,600 |
| Total | 399,600 |
Other Grants
| Grant | Amount (HK$) |
|---|---|
| Total Internal allocation for 2018-2019 | |
| Total Internal allocation for 2017-2018 | 300,000 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2016-2017 | 300,000 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2015-2016 | 65,360 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2014-2015 | 521,000 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2013-2014 | 565,308 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2012-2013 | 361,550 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2011-2012 | 241,968 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2010-2011 | 300,000 |
| Total Internal allocation for 2009-2010 | 310,000 |
