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Outstanding 2026/27 GRF/ECS Grant Success

July 2026

The Research Grant Council (RGC) released the 2026/27 results of the General Research Fund (GRF)/Early Career Scheme (ECS) recently. Within the Department of Geography, GSIS, a total of 10 Faculty members successfully secured 8 GRF projects and 2 ECS projects. Congratulations to the following colleagues who received the award this year!

GRF Awardees:

Prof. WANG Donggen

Assessing Inequalities in Objective and Perceived Healthcare Accessibility and Environmental Exposure Leveraging Large Language Models (HK$1,092,560)

Prof. GAO Meng

Unveiling hourly NOx and HCHO/CHOCHO emissions in Asia by combining geostationary monitoring, chemical transport modeling and machine learning (HK$825,688)

Prof. HAO Pu

Unbounded Labor: Life on the Digital Frontier of China’s Platform Economy (HK$930,330)

Prof. MAH Ngar-yin, Daphne

Scaling up decarbonisation through voluntary, AI-assisted simplified energy auditing (AI-SEA) in the residential sector in Hong Kong (HK$994,540)

Prof. SAKAI Shoko

From Mills to Markets: Linking Corporate Supply-Chain Commitments to Deforestation and Biodiversity Risk in Southeast Asia (HK$795,367)

Prof. GUO Meiyu

Multi-scale assessment of methane emissions from coal mining operations in China (HK$855,000)

Prof. SONG Jun

Physics-Embedded AI Approach for High-Resolution Urban Air Quality Modeling (HK$616,160)

Dr. WANG Fan

Isotope-constrained modeling of carbonaceous aerosol sources and radiative effects in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) (HK$814,320)

ECS Awardees:

Prof. JIANG Feifeng

Predicting Pedestrian Exposure to Nitrogen Dioxide in Transit Walksheds (HK$950,000)

Prof. LYU Xiaopu

Informing ozone mitigation in Hong Kong through vertical profiling and modeling (HK$571,915)

Congratulations to all our exceptional faculty members!