Prof. TAN Kay Chen, Head of Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence and Chair Professor of Computational Intelligence, has been honoured as Senior Research Fellow under the Research Grants Council (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Scheme (SRFS) 2025/26.
This esteemed fellowship recognises Prof. TAN’s outstanding research achievements and his significant contributions to the field of artificial intelligence. Prof. TAN’s SRFS project, titled “Towards adaptive pretrained vision-language foundation models for medical image analysis,” will develop an integrated intelligent interpretation system to provide personalised and human-centric healthcare, featuring several functionalities such as visual question answering, radiology reports analysis, and computer-aided diagnosis. It aims to improve the quality of healthcare services, ease strain on medical resources, and solidify Hong Kong’s leadership in AI-powered healthcare innovation.
SRFS aims to provide sustained support to exceptionally outstanding researchers at the University Grants Committee-funded universities in Hong Kong. The scheme provides ten grants to scholars from any academic disciplines, with funding support for a period of 60 months. The supporting university will receive a fellowship grant of around HK$8.2 million per award for SRFS projects.
Congratulations to Prof. TAN for this esteemed recognition, and we look forward to the impactful advancements his research will bring to the field of artificial intelligence and healthcare.
