Dr Wei Minchen Tommy Awarded $5.7 Million by the RGC Research Impact Fund Scheme (RIF)

Dr Wei Minchen Tommy was awarded $5.7 million by the RGC Research Impact Fund Scheme.

Dr Wei has been awarded $5.7 million by the RGC Research Impact Fund Scheme for a project titled “Deeper understanding of color matching mechanism for developing high-quality lighting and imaging systems”. The project aims to understand how the human eyes and brains work together to perceive the same color appearance produced by stimuli with different spectral compositions, especially those with highly structured spectra. It can help the development of high quality lighting (e.g., LEDs, OLEDs, and laser diodes) and imaging (e.g., displays, cameras, printers) systems. As the project coordinator, Dr Wei will lead a team including color scientists, vision scientists, and neuroscientists from local and overseas universities, world-leading high-tech companies, US national laboratory, and international standardization bodies.