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Direct Grant, “A Phase-Based Approach for Software Reliability Engineering,” CUHK/UGC, 1997 -1998, HK$150,000.

Direct Grant, “Structured-Based Software Reliability Modeling Techniques,” CUHK/UGC, 1998-1999, HK$80,000.

Co-Principal Investigator, “A Pilot Scheme on Q-Mark Software for Hong Kong Education,” Quality Education Fund, 1998-1999, HK$1,400K.

Principal Investigator, “Architecture-Based Techniques and Tools for Software Reliability Engineering,” France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, 1999-2000, HK$30K and FF20700.

Co-Principal Investigator, “OCF – Open Component Foundation,” Industrial Support Fund, 1999-2003, HK$7,079K.

Principal Investigator, ”Architecture-Based Software Reliability Engineering Techniques,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 1999-2001, HK$405K.

Principal Investigator, “Architecture-Based Techniques and Tools for Software Reliability Engineering,” France/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme, 2000-2001, HK$31K and FF20700.

Principal Investigator, “The Effect of Diversity in Large-Scale Distributed Systems,” UK/Hong Kong Joint Research Scheme 2000, L5992 (HK$73112).

Principal Investigator, “A Multilingual Digital Video Content Hub,” Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 2000-2003, HK$5,980K. (The largest single-project funding in the CSE department history when funded.)

Principal Investigator, ”Dependability and Security Paradigms for Mobile Agent Systems,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2000-2003, HK$437,817.

Principal Investigator, “Engineering Distributed Objects for Reliability and Interoperability,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2001-2003, HK$387,248.

Principal Investigator, “Design Diversity by Component-Based Software Development,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2002-2004, HK$413,404.

Advisor for the winning team of the Best .NET Application of the Year Award in Hong Kong Microsoft Web Service Xcellence Competition, 2002; Awarded HK$50K research grant.

Inventor, Video2MMS?, a technology to automatically convert news contents to MMS messages; current awarded license fees HK$80K.

Principal Investigator, “Reliable Automatic Multi-Layer Video Content Classification Based on Syntactic and Semantic Features,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2003-2005, HK$377,149.

Principal Investigator, “Augmented Reality Computing Arena for Digital Entertainment (ARCADE),” Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 2004-2006, HK$3,896K.

Principal Investigator, “A Design Paradigm for Fault-Tolerant Wireless Distributed Software Systems,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2004-2006, HK$360,734.

Principal Investigator, “An Automatic Multi-layer Video Content Classification Framework,” Shun Hing Institute of Advanced Engineering Research Grant, 2005-2006, HK$892,000.

Co-Investigator, “Mobile Technologies Centre (MobiTeC),” HK$300,000.

Principal Investigator, “Enabling Face-to-Face Entertainment Computing Technology (EFFECT),” Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 9/2006-7/2007, HK$999,925.

Principal Investigator, ”Software Reliability Modeling Incorporating Testing Time and Coverage Measurements,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2007-2010, HK$532,800.

Principal Investigator, “A Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Service Architecture and Integration Research Center,” Internal Research Grant, 2007-2009, HK$290,000.

Co-Investigator, “Aspect-Oriented Traceability via Lexical, Syntactic, Semantic and Variability Analysis,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2007-2009, HK$638,400.

Principal Investigator, ”Video Processing Toolkit for Visual Perception Technology (VPT2) in Computer Games,” Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 9/2007-7/2008, HK$998,315.

Principal Investigator, ”Software Reliability Engineering with Machine Learning Techniques,” RGC Earmarked Grant, 2008-2010, HK$338,293.

Principal Investigator, ”Video Capture and View Construction for Volume Computing in Digital Entertainment (VC3),” Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 9/2008-6/2009, HK$995,900.

Principal Investigator, “A Collaborative Machine Learning Framework for Multimedia Information Retrieval,” Microsoft Research Asia Research Grant, 2009-2010, HK$98,000.

Principal Investigator, ”Visible and Infrared Video Integrated Marking for Augmented Gesture Extraction (VIVid IMAGE) in Digital Entertainment,” ITSP - Information Technology, 2009-2010, HK$999,660.

Principal Investigator, “A Distributed Evaluation and Selection Paradigm for Fault Tolerant Web Services,” RGC General Research Fund, 2009-2012, HK$759,000.

Principal Investigator, “Service Reliability Engineering: Building Predictably Reliable Service-Oriented Systems,” RGC General Research Fund, 2010-2013, HK$690,000.

Principal Investigator, “Spatial and Appearance Correlation of Multi-view Surveillance Videos for In-Store Customer Trace Discovery and Pro-Active Selling,” Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 2010-2011, HK$996,176.

Principal Investigator, “Mining User Travel Paths For Personalized Point-of-Interest Recommendation,” Google Mobile 2014 Focused Grant Project, 2010-2011, US$70,000. Poster

Principal Investigator, “Core Technology for Multimedia Signal Processing and Productization for Converged 3G Network, Index & Retrieval,” Guangdong-Hong Kong Joint Scheme, Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), 2010-2012, HK$5,458,636.

Principal Investigator, “On the Development of Reliable Cloud Computing: A Framework, Techniques, and Experimentation,” RGC General Research Fund, 2011-2014, HK$1,060,875.

Principal Investigator, “Aggregating Spatial-Temporal-Relational Information for Personalized Location-Based Service Recommendation,”Google Mobile 2014 Focused Grant Project, 2011-2012, US$50,000.

Principal Investigator, “Towards Trustworthy Cloud Computing with Component-based Design, Online Evaluation, and Runtime Optimization Techniques,,” NSFC/RGC Joint Research Scheme, 2012-2014, HK$1,011,425.