Extracted from CUHK Focus, dated 21 Aug 2024
Two CSE Professor have received awards from the 2024-25 Research Grants Council (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme and RGC Research Fellow Scheme in recognition of their distinguished research achievements.
The two schemes aim to provide sustained research support integrated with relief from teaching and administrative duties for outstanding mid-career researchers at Associate Professor rank, and senior researchers at full Professor rank at UGC-funded universities, facilitating them to dedicate their career to research and development and nurture the next generation of local research talent.
Professor Michael Lyu Rung-tsong, Choh-ming Li Professor of Computer Science and Engineering was named RGC Senior Research Fellows. He leads a research project titled “language models on code intelligence”. CUHK will receive a fellowship grant of about HK$8 million to cover salary costs for relief teachers and support for research projects over a period of 60 months.
Professor Yu Bei, Associate Professor of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering was named RGC Research Fellows. Professor Yu leads a research project titled “Machine learning driven VLSI mask optimisation”. CUHK will receive a fellowship grant of about HK$5.3 million to cover salary costs for relief teachers and support for research projects over a period of 60 months.
