The Department of Applied Mathematics (AMA) has achieved a highly successful funding round, securing HKD 14.5 million across 20 research projects in the latest Research Grants Council (RGC) exercise.
Following the announcement of the General Research Fund (GRF) and Early Career Scheme (ECS) results for the 2026/27 academic year, AMA has once again demonstrated its academic strength. As these RGC schemes are highly competitive, our strong showing in this round underscores our department's commitment to research excellence and our continuous contributions to the field of applied mathematics. With this vital support, AMA is well-positioned to drive impactful research that delivers meaningful benefits to society.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our dedicated faculty members, whose hard work, perseverance, and intellectual curiosity have made this accomplishment possible. Warmest congratulations to the following colleagues whose projects have been awarded funding in this round:
| Principal Investigator | Project Title |
| Prof. CAO Xinlin | Mathematical Analysis of Acoustic Wave Propagation by Subwavelength Anisotropic Sheets |
| Prof. CHEN Kexin | Beyond Smoothness: A Stochastic Intertemporal Framework for Lumpy Consumption in Today's Economy |
| Prof. CHEN Xiaojun | Multiple Nonsmooth Optimization Problems in a Dynamic Stochastic System |
| Prof. CUI Jianbo | Structure-preserving Numerical Methods for Stochastic Nonlinear Schrödinger Equations with White Noise Dispersion |
| Prof. HE Daihai | Forecasting the Risk of Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika in China: Investigating the Inner Mechanisms and Heterogeneities of Outbreaks of the Mosquito-borne Viruses, Climate and Socio-economic Thresholds, and Cross-interaction |
| Prof. HU Xianpeng | Quantitative Regularity and Weak Solutions for Isentropic Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations |
| Prof. JIANG Zhaoli | Differential Games and Second-mover Advantage |
| Prof. LI Buyang | Finite Element Methods for Intrinsic Geometric Flow |
| Prof. LI Xun | Optimal Controls of Partially Observed Forward-Backward Stochastic Systems with Input Constraints and Their Financial Applications |
| Prof. LIN Yanping | Numerical Methods and Optimal Convergence Analysis for the Cahn-Hilliard-MHD Model |
| Dr LIU Wei | Oracle Complexity Bounds of First-order Methods for Nonsmooth Optimization with Nonconvex Function Constraints |
| Prof. PONG Ting Kei | Non-Lipschitz Nonsmooth Stochastic Zeroth-order Optimization with Complexity Analysis |
| Prof. QIAO Zhonghua | Efficient and Energy Stable Numerical Methods for Phase Field Modeling of Multicomponent Membranes |
| Prof. SHEN Guohao | Symmetries in Deep Learning with Applications to Optimization and Communication-Efficient Distributed Learning |
| Prof. SUN Defeng | GPU-Accelerated Augmented Lagrangian Methods for Large-Scale Semidefinite Programming |
| Prof. WANG Zhian | Nonlinear Stability of Traveling Wave Solutions of Chemotaxis Models with Logistic Source |
| Prof. WONG Kin Yau, Alex | Statistical Methods in Biomedical Studies with Proxy Variables, Machine Learning Predictions, and Missing Data |
| Prof. ZHANG Zhu | Stability Analysis of Three-dimensional Boundary Layers in the High-Reynolds-Number Limit |
| Prof. ZHAO Xingqiu | Nonparametric Hypothesis Testing Methods for Recurrent Event Processes |
| Prof. ZHOU Zhi | Convergence Analysis of Parareal Algorithms for PDEs with Nonsmooth Data |
