Research Projects

General Research Fund

Project Code	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Abstract
16601022	Prof. Laurence DELINA CI: Dr. Ngar-yin Daphne MAH, Prof. Kim-Pong TAM	Energy insecurity in Hong Kong’s vulnerable populations	View
16302220	Prof. Jimmy FUNG CI: Prof. Yuhang WANG	Impact of brown carbon on meteorological factors and ozone concentration	View
16305921	Prof. Jimmy FUNG CI: Prof. David SIMPSON	Estimation and spatiotemporal analysis of wet deposition of long-term non-sea-salt-sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, and calcium in Northern Hemisphere	View
16306224	Prof. Dasa GU	Observational study of short-lived halocarbons in a coastal suburban environment	View
16308722	Prof. Eun-Soon IM CI: Prof. Hyun-Han KWON, Prof. Chi-yung Francis TAM, Prof. Zhongfeng XU	Joint probability of concurrent hot and dry extremes realized by convection-permitting projections based on multi-RCMs and multi-scenarios	View
16302623	Prof. Alexis LAU CI: Dr. Changqing LIN	Rethink ozone management - modification of the EKMA diagram to quantify the overall health effects of NOx and VOCs emission controls and its implication for decarbonization	View
16202120	Prof. Alexis LAU CI: Dr. Changqing LIN	Assessment of decadal NO2 variations over the Greater Bay Area in Southern China	View
16215524	Dr. Kezheng LIAO CI: Prof. Christian GEORGE, Prof. Cheng WU, Prof. Qi YING, Prof. Jianzhen YU	Atmospheric brown carbon: a novel quantifying algorithm with aethalometer data, updated mechanisms for numeric simulation, and assessment of its regional impacts	View
16211924	Prof. Zhi NING	Dynamic k factor prediction from correlogram of PM optical sensor measurement for PM mass prediction using machine learning algorithms	View
16210023	Prof. Zhi NING	Unravelling contraption of particulate matter size and number distribution in urban microenvironments	View
16212022	Prof. Zhi NING	Machine Learning Model Based on Mobile and Fixed Air Monitoring Network to Map Microscale NO2 Pollution in Complex Urban Environments	View
16309025	Prof. Xiaoming SHI	Developing a Scale-Adaptive Cumulus Parameterization for Simulating Tropical Convection Across Scales	View
16307323	Prof. Xiaoming SHI CI: Prof. Johnny CHAN	Estimating Tropical Cyclone Changes due to Global Warming with Smart Dynamical Downscaling and Convection-Permitting Simulations	View
16301721	Prof. Xiaoming SHI	The Representation of Turbulence and Convection in the Gray Zones of Orographic Precipitation	View
16301322	Prof. Xiaoming SHI	Large Eddy Simulation Code in JAX: An Accelerated and Differentiable Atmospheric Model for Turbulence Parameterization Development	View
16211824	Prof. Zhe WANG CI: Prof. Tzung-May FU	Investigating the formation and impact of atmospheric di-carbonyls in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area	View
16201623	Prof. Zhe WANG CI: Prof. Jianzhen YU	Source, formation, and gas-particle partitioning of nitro-phenolic compounds and their environmental impacts in subtropical Hong Kong	View
16209022	Prof. Zhe WANG CI: Prof. Kin-fai HO, Prof. Tao WANG, Prof. Jianzhen YU	Highly oxygenated products from aromatic VOCs oxidation in the urban environment and their impacts on air quality	View
16211421	Prof. King Lun YEUNG	Electrospun Catalytic Nanofibers for Air Disinfection and Purification	View
16306322	Prof. King Lun YEUNG	Metal-organic framework hierarchical metastructures for chemical separation and reaction	View
16307820	Prof. Jianzhen YU CI: Prof. Tzung-May FU	Aerosol Organic Nitrogen: Abundance, Sources, and Environmental Impacts in the Pearl River Delta, China	View
16213222	Prof. Jianzhen YU CI: Dr. Cheng HUANG	Investigating sources of nitrogenous organic aerosols	View
16304924	Prof. Xu YU CI: Prof. Tzung-May FU, Prof. Jianzhen YU	Dry deposition and source apportionment of atmospheric particulate organic nitrogen (ON): towards both water-soluble and water-insoluble ON	View

Early Career Scheme

Project Code	Principal Investigator	Project Title	Abstract
26600521	Prof. Laurence DELINA	Intangible assets and resilient rice farming in indigenous and vulnerable regions of Southeast Asia	View
26304921	Prof. Dasa GU	Study of ambient halocarbons in Hong Kong: temporal variability and implication on source origins	View
26201721	Prof. Zhongming LU	Integrating Agent-based Exploratory Modeling and Spatial Optimization for Sustainable Promotion of Decentralized Water Systems	View
26305720	Prof. Xiaoming SHI	Quantifying and Understanding the Response of Extreme Convective Rainfall to Global Warming	View

Research Projects – 2025