A Commitment to High Quality Research
The School of Decision Sciences has a commitment to high quality research. Since its inception in 2014, the School has successfully secured a considerable number of external competitive research grants, with funding totalling HK$48.3 million, in the following schemes:
- HKSAR Central Policy Unit – Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR)
- HKSAR Education Bureau – Quality Enhancement Support Scheme (QESS)
- Research Grants Council – Competitive Research Funding Scheme for the Local Self-financing Degree Sector:
(i) Faculty Development Scheme (FDS)
(ii) The Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS)
(iii) Institutional Development Scheme (IDS) Collaborative Research Grant
Year |
No. of External Grant Received |
Total Amount (HK$) |
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FDS |
IIDS | IDS (CRG) | QESS |
PPR |
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2019/20 |
5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
8,169,538 |
2018/19 |
5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
4,414,588 |
2017/18 |
10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
6,890,500 |
2016/17 |
7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
7,791,192 |
2015/16 |
6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
5,410,386 |
2014/15 |
9 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
15,648,369 |
Total |
48,324,573 |
Lists of External Funded Projects
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr CHU Man-ying | Longitudinal Item Response Techniques with Applications to Education and Psychosocial Interventions | 807,400 |
Dr MA Hoi-lam | The Impacts of Heterogeneous Maintenance Actions on Aircraft Routing Problems in regard to Airline Operations Reliability and Profitability | 745,300 |
Prof TANG Man-lai | Model Selection with High Dimensional Incomplete Data | 723,450 |
Dr WANG Yue | Generalised Needs-based Product Configurator Design | 783,250 |
Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | Three-echelon Collaborative Slot Allocation Planning for Liner Shipping Revenue Management Under Uncertain Demand | 869,788 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Ms MO Elaine Yee-lam | Symposium in Reliability Theory and Industrial Statistics | 485,400 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr CHOY Siu-kai | Fuzzy Bit-plane-dependence Multi-domain Region Competition: Mathematical Modelling and Applications | 575,473 |
Dr CHU Man-ying | Statistical disclosure control of confidential data using vine copulas with applications to finance and healthcare management | 506,100 |
Dr HO Man-wai | A Bayesian Semiparametric Approach to the Endogeneity Problem | 463,090 |
Dr LAM Benson Shu-yan | Supervised Dimensionality Reduction with Unsupervised Learning: Theory and Applications | 476,200 |
Dr LIU Hai | Self-adaptive Collective Motion of Swarm Robots | 848,262 |
Dr MO Yiu-wing | Design of Flexible Vehicle Management Systems for Mass Customised and Sustainable Paratransit Services | 776,322 |
Prof TANG Man-lai | Alternative Item Count Techniques for Sensitive Survey Questions: Theories and Methods | 844,200 |
Dr WANG Yue | Configuration-based recommendation for online product customization in e-commerce | 828,100 |
Dr WONG Wai-kit | Optimizing Analytics Processing in Encrypted Database Systems | 557,850 |
Dr YU Kwok-wai | Interior Subgradient Methods for Large-scale Quasi-convex Optimization and Their Applications | 611,153 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr CHU Man-ying | Recent Developments in Business Analytics and New Research Directions | 403,750 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr CHU Man-ying | Statistical Inference of Sensitive Randomized Dichotomous Responses with Applications to Information Management and Healthcare Management | 1,182,250 |
Dr MO Yiu-wing | Adaptive Process Optimization Strategies: Sustaining the Best-in-class Performance of Spare Parts Services | 985,650 |
Dr LEE Wing-yan | Analysis and Application of Bounds in Insolvency Problem | 733,800 |
Prof TANG Man-lai | Advanced Statistical Methods for Complex Longitudinal Data Analysis | 1,114,450 |
Dr WONG Wai-kit | Secure Cloud Database System using Communication-Efficient Multi-Party Computation | 712,209 |
Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | Consumer Carbon Label: Development of Supply Chain Product Carbon Footprint and Consumer Carbon Index for Beverage Merchandise | 967,227 |
Dr YUEN Fei-lung | On the Uncertainty of Value-at-Risk of Individual Risk | 1,152,383 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr MO Yiu-wing | Intelligent Systems Ready for the Digital Future of Supply Chains | 541,198 |
Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | Interactive Case-based Pedagogical Development on Maritime, Aviation and Logistics Law for Supply Chain and Logistics Operations | 402,025 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr CHOY Siu-kai | Fuzzy Generalised Gaussian Density Segmentation Model: Mathematical Analysis and Applications | 870,550 |
Dr MO Yiu-wing | Sustainable Development for Community Dial-a-ride Services: Driving more People without more Vehicles | 692,530 |
Dr WANG Yue | Relative Attribute Based Configurator Design for Mass Customization | 783,150 |
Dr WONG Wai-hung | A Global Network Decision Support System for Air Passenger and Freight Businesses | 236,900 |
Dr YU Marco Chak-yan | Investigation of Spatio-temporal Relationship between the Structure and Function in Glaucoma Using Partial Least Squares Regression (PLS-R) | 1,059,083 |
Dr YU Kwok-wai | Sparse Optimization Models with Application to Portfolio Management | 1,006,183 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr YEUNG Shirley Mo-ching | Sustainable Development in Higher Education – Responsible Management, Innovative Programme Design and Green Learning Environment | 342,815 |
Mr ZEL Stanley Tze-fung | Symposia in Data Science | 419,175 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr CHAN Chi-Kong | On 2-d rectangular packing problem with aspect ratio considerations | 159,850 |
Dr CHOY Siu-kai | Model-based Unsupervised Image Segmentation | 573,620 |
Dr GLOWACKA Karolina Joanna | Integrated modeling approach for increasing Hong Kong Port competitiveness | 721,377 |
Dr Benson LAM | Data Functional Modelling with Outliers | 989,897 |
Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | Supply chain decarbonisation: good industry practices and development of carbon footprint toolkit | 639,055 |
Dr WONG Ricky Siu-kuen | Systematic Biases in Hong Kong’s Mandatory Provident Funds and UK’s Individual Savings Account | 589,260 |
Dr WONG Wai-Kit | Improving selection query processing speed of secure cloud database systems by tuple pruning on desensitized data | 1,053,400 |
Prof TANG Man-lai | New Items Count Techniques for Surveys with Sensitive Questions: Theories and Methods | 618,585 |
Dr YU Kwok-wai | Generalized Multicriteria Programs and Their Application in Portfolio Selection Problems | 667,115 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr LIU Nga-wai | Workshop Series in Applied Statistics | 381,570 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr WONG Eugene Yin-cheung | The Development of Educational and Research Center with Automatic Virtual Reality Platform for 3D Interactive Learning and Big Data Analytics | 2,000,000 |
Dr WONG Wai-hung | A Visual Platform for the Design, Implementation, and Analysis of Collaborative Business Simulation Games | 6,600,140 |
Principal Investigator | Project Title | Amount Awarded (HK$) |
Dr WONG Wai-hung | Preventing Marginalization in Air Passenger and Freight Businesses – a Global Network Decision Support System | 654,500 |