PolyU received a total funding of HK$7.25 million in the 2023 MTR Research Funding Scheme for six research projects that aim at developing cutting-edge technologies for the future advancement of railways. Among them, five projects are led by PAIR researchers:
In alphabetical order of last name:
| 
             Principal Investigator  | 
            
             PAIR Research Unit  | 
            
             Project Title  | 
        
| 
             Prof. CHUNG Chi-yung  | 
            
             Photonics Research Institute (PRI) 
  | 
            
             Developing an Electromagnetic Energy Harvesting System to Energise Monitoring Systems in the Hong Kong MTR System  | 
        
| 
             Dr HUANG Xinyan  | 
            
             Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD)  | 
            
             Intelligent Emergency Digital Twin System in Metro Station for Fire Evacuation  | 
        
| 
             Dr LAI Siu-kai 
  | 
            
             Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development (RISUD) 
  | 
            
             Development of a New Inerter-based Rail Damper to Mitigate Railway-induced Ground-borne Noise by a Physics-informed Deep Learning Framework  | 
        
| 
             Dr REN Jingzheng  | 
            
             Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing (RIAM) and Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality (RCRE)  | 
            
             Promoting Environmental Social and Governance (ESG) in MTR for Pursuing Sustainable Development Goals and Better Service Quality  | 
        
| 
             Dr YE Hongbo  | 
            
             Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute (SCRI)  | 
            
             Planning and Operation of Future Railway System with Autonomous Modularised Trains and Virtual Coupling Signalling  | 
        
Read more: https://polyu.me/45mTfNr
Online coverage (Chinese only):
Oriental Daily News - https://polyu.me/46jFost
HK01 - https://polyu.me/46pRZdU
| Research Units | Research Institute for Advanced Manufacturing | Photonics Research Institute | Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute | Research Institute for Sustainable Urban Development | Research Centre for Resources Engineering towards Carbon Neutrality | 
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