研究與發展
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
62
香港科技大學
2010-2011
年報
HKUST 2010-2011 Annual Report
63
RESEARCH FUNDING
HKUST is recognized by a range of funding organizations,
which assist the University’s researchers through financial
support of their work.
Hong Kong’s Research Grants Council’s annual
competitive General Research Fund program overall also
show the strength of the University’s capabilities and
accomplishments. Via RGC’s GRF program announced on
30 June 2011, HKUST researchers were awarded $106.4
million and HKUST achieved:
•
the highest success rate (45%)
•
the highest funding per eligible faculty ($240,000)
•
the highest participation rate (33.1% of eligible faculty
were funded)
Given that success in this competition is dependent on the
quality of proposals, as perceived by international peers,
and on the track record of the applicants, these funding
results are further testimony to the excellence of research
and scholarship at HKUST.
•
A collaborative research project titled “Protein-
phosphoinositides interactions in neuronal signaling”
was recently renewed and received funding of an
amount of HK$7.866 million from the Hong Kong
Research Grants Council. Prof Mingjie Zhang, Prof Nancy
Ip, Prof Zilong Wen, and Prof Jun Xia of the Division
of Life Science are the principal investigator and co-
investigators for this joint project, respectively.
•
Prof Benzhong Tang, Department of Chemistry, was
awarded HK$5.359M by RGC — Collaborative Research
Fund 2010-2011 on a project entitled “Development of
efficient luminogenic materials in the aggregate state:
fundamental understanding and practical applications”.
•
In the Research Grants Council’s first round of its Theme-
based Research Scheme, research on “Transforming
Hong Kong’s Ocean Container Transport Logistics
Network” by Prof Chung-Yee Lee, Department of
Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management, and
his team of researchers received funding of HK$13.292
million. The research team will holistically study ocean
container transport supply chain networks around the
world, at both the strategic and tactical levels. The team
will also develop decision support systems for Hong
Kong’s ocean container supply chain network.
•
Prof Chung-Yee Lee and Prof Ajay Joneja, Department
of Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management,
have been awarded a research grant of HK$2.906
million from the Innovation and Technology Fund for
their project “Integrated Decision Support System for
Dynamic Vehicle-Dispatching and Scheduling with Real-
time Information under Operation Uncertainty”. The
project seeks to develop an integrated information
technology platform for passenger transport in real-
time operation and information exchange to reduce
operation costs and improve efficiency.
•
Prof Charles Ng, Department of Civil and Environmental
Engineering, was awarded a HK$6.67 million research
grant by the Research Grants Council to study and
develop Green Slope Engineering for Hong Kong. He
leads a group of researchers from HKUST, HKU and
CUHK.
•
Prof James Z Lee, Dean of Humanities and Social
Science, was successful in several funding applications
for different projects. He obtained a grant of
HK$5.954 million from the National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development to work on the project
“The Liaoning Multi-Generational Panel Dataset:
Public Release and User Training”. He has gained a
General Research Fund grant of HK$1.260 million from
the Research Grants Council to work on “Differentiating
Community and Family Contextual Influences on
Socioeconomic Attainment and Demographic Behavior:
Shuangcheng, 1855-1911”. In addition, Prof James
Z Lee also obtained a grant of RMB150,000 from the
National Natural Science Foundation of China to work
on the project “Research Materials on the Population
and Social History of Northeast China since the
mid-Qing”.
•
Prof Jianping Gan, the Division of Environment, and
his research team have successfully conducted monthly
multidisciplinary field surveys in the Pearl River and
Pearl River Estuary to identify the water environment
and its physical and biogeochemical controls. The
year-long survey was the first in the region and has
provided valuable scientific evidence to tackle the water
environment in the region. This data set has contributed
to the developments of a National Basic Research (973)
Project with a funding amount of HK$3.07 million on
Carbon Cycling in China Seas. The team has also secured
a General Research Fund with a funding amount of
HK$883,200 with a project on Dynamics of the Pearl
River Plume and its effect on the coastal circulation over
the shelf off Pearl River Estuary and Hong Kong in the
wet season.
研究資助
科大的研究工作廣受認同，並獲研究資助。
香港研究資助局每年的優配研究基金計劃，整體上顯示出科大的實力及成就。根據研究資助局
2011
年
6
月
30
日宣佈的優配研究金計劃結果，科大的研究人員獲撥款港幣
1.064
億元，而科大則
取得以下成績：
•
成功率最高（
45%
）
•
合資格教學人員個人撥款最高（
24
萬港元）
•
參與率最高（合資格教學人員中有
33.1%
獲資助）
爭取撥款成功與否，乃取決於國際學術界對建議書質素的看法，以及申請人過往的記錄。撥款結
果進一步證明科大的研究及學術達高水平。
•
「蛋白質和磷酸肌醇的相互作用對神經細胞信號傳導的調控」合作研究項目獲香港研究資助局
批出港幣786.6萬元資助。生命科學部的張明傑教授、葉玉如教授、溫子龍教授、夏軍教授分
別為本項目的首席研究人員及合作研究人員。
•
化學系的唐本忠教授以「聚集態高效發光材料的開發：基礎研究和實際應用」項目，獲研究資
助局撥出
2010-2011
年的協作研究金港幣
535.9
萬元。
•
在研究資助局的首輪主題研究計劃中，工業工程及物流管理學系李忠義教授及其
研究團隊進行的「振興香港海洋貨櫃運輸物流網」研究，獲撥款港幣
1,329.2
萬元。
研究團隊將於物流及策略層面上，全面研究全球的海洋貨櫃運輸供應鏈網絡。團隊也將為香
港的海洋貨櫃供應鏈網絡研發決策支援系統。
•
工業工程及物流管理學系的李忠義教授及
Ajay Joneja
教授以「營運不確定性下之動態車輛調度
及編程決策支援與實時資訊整合系統」項目，獲得創新及科技基金撥款港幣
290.6
萬。這個研
究項目旨在發展綜合資訊科技平台，為客運服務提供實時營運及資訊交流以降低營運成本及
提升效益。
•
土木及環境工程學系吳宏偉教授獲研究資助局撥款
667
萬港元，以研究香港的綠化斜坡工程，
帶領科大、港大與中大的研究員進行研究。
•
人文社會科學學院院長李中清教授成功獲得多個項目資助，其中美國國家兒童健康和人
類發育研究院撥款約港幣
595.4
萬元資助他及其研究小組進行「中國遼寧多世代人口數據
庫」研究項目；同時，他以「
Differentiating Community and Family Contextual Influences on
Socioeconomic Attainment and Demographic Behavior: Shuangcheng, 1855-1911
」項目獲得研
究資助局撥款港幣
126
萬元。此外，他在上海交通大學建立的東北研究中心獲中國社會科學
基金撥款人民幣
150,000
元，以進行清朝中期以來中國東北人口及社會歷史文獻的研究工作
「
Research Materials on the Population and Social History of Northeast China since the mid-Qing
」。
•
環境學部的甘劍平教授及其研究團隊成功於珠江及珠江口進行每月的跨學科實地調查，以確
定當地的水質情況及其物理及生物地球化學監控。這個區內首項同類調查為期一年，提供實
用科學證據解決區內水質問題；數據集有助在中國海進行碳循環研究，進行獲得資助港幣
307
萬元的國家重點基礎研究發展計劃（
973
計劃）。研究團隊也獲得優配研究金撥款港幣
88.32
萬
元，研究珠江股流與香港的動態及其於雨季對珠江口及香港沿岸水流的影響。
