Projects

External Research Grants

• PI. “Leveraging Large Language Models for Road Trip Itinerary Recommendation in the Greater Bay Area”, Contract Research - Highyun InfoTech Limited, HK$950,000. 04/2025-03/2026.
• PI. “Generalizable Deep Learning across Cities and Modes for Human Mobility Prediction”. National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Young Scientists Fund (42201502), CNY300,000. 01/2023-12/2025.
• Co-PI. “e-TranStar 2.0: i-Core-enabled Smart Just-in-Time MiC Transportation Planning”. Public Sector Trial Scheme (PSTS)- Innovation and Technology Fund (ITT/004/24LP), HK$3.73m. 05/2024-04/2026.

Internal Research Grants

• PI. “Leveraging Causal and Generative AI for Human-centric Urban Street Design”. HKU Lasting Impact Fund - Young Scholar Scheme (010104001), HK$800,000. 12/2024-11/2028.
• PI. “Modeling the co-evolution of urban metro networks and land use systems”. HKU Seed Fund for PI Research – Basic Research (109001117), HK$77,533. 06/2024-06/2026.
• PI. “Enhancing Multimodal Public Transit System Resilience using Network Science and AI”. HKU Seed Fund for PI Research - Basic Research (109000301), HK$107,000. 06/2023-06/2025.
• PI. “Quantifying the Impact of Street Network Structure on Urban Congestion: A Multi-City Study”. HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research (104006646), HK$95,500. 06/2022-06/2024.
• PI. “A Simulation-based Analytical Framework for the Design of an Integrated Autonomous Vehicle and Public Transit System and Evaluation of its Impact on Urban Form”. HKU Seed Funding for Strategic Interdisciplinary Research Scheme (102010057), HK$1m. 06/2021-06/2024.
• PI. “Urban Embedding: Learning Spatial Representation from Urban Mobility Flows”. HKU Seed Fund for Basic Research for New Staff (104006019), HK$138,780. 03/2021-02/2023.