ENGINEERING FACULTY
| Researcher : Chew WC |
| Project Title: | Design of Broadband RFID Tag Antenna for Complex Environments |
| Investigator(s): | Chew WC, Chen Y, Huang J, Yang P |
| Department: | Engineering Faculty |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Innovation and Technology Support Programme (Tier 3) |
| Start Date: | 10/2009 |
| Project Title: | Design of Ambience Immune RFID Tag Antennas Inspired by Metamaterials |
| Investigator(s): | Chew WC, Jiang L, Yang P, Huang J |
| Department: | Engineering Faculty |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Innovation and Technology Support Programme (Tier 3) |
| Start Date: | 03/2010 |
| Researcher : Kong CT |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Tam V.W.L., Chui C.K., So H.K.H., Khaing N.T., Kong C.T. and Roy S., Urban Farming in Myanmar: An Experiential Learning Project for Engineering and Science Students from Hong Kong and Myanmar, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE 2018). 2018, 1185-1188. |
| Researcher : Lee KH |
| List of Research Outputs |
| DONG Z., GUO Z., Lee K.H., FANG G., Tang W.L., Chang H.C.C., Chan D.T.M. and Kwok K.W., High-performance Continuous Hydraulic Motor for MR Safe Robotic Teleoperation, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. IEEE, 2019, 4(2): 1964-1971. |
| DONG Z., Kwok K.W., GUO Z. and Lee K.H., PCT Patent: Fluid Powered Master-Slave Actuation for MRI-Guided Interventions, PCT/IB2019/051877 , 2019. |
| FANG G., WANG X., WANG K., Lee K.H., HO J.D.-.L., FU H.C., Fu K.C.D. and Kwok K.W., Vision-based Online Learning Control for Soft Robots using Local Gaussian Process Regression, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. IEEE, 2019, 4(2): 1194-1201. |
| GUO Z., Kwok K.W., DONG Z., Lee K.H., FU H.C. and CHEUNG C.L., PCT Patent: Robotic Stereotactic System for MRI-Guided Neurosurgery, PCT/CN2019/072961 , 2019. |
| Kwok K.W., LUN T.L.T., HO J.D.-.L., Lee K.H. and Wong K.K.Y., CN Patent: Real-time Surface Shape Sensing for Flexible Structures Using Fiber Bragg Gratings, CN 201910552110.1, 2019. |
| Kwok K.W., LUN T.L.T., HO J.D.-.L., Lee K.H. and Wong K.K.Y., US Patent: Real-time Surface Shape Sensing for Flexible Structures Using Fiber Bragg Gratings, US 16/449,063, 2019. |
| LI J., Kong T., Yu J., Lee K.H., Tang Y.H., Kwok K.W., Kim J. and Shum H.C., Electrocoiling-guided Printing of Multiscale Architectures at Single-wavelength Resolution, Lab on a Chip. Royal Society of Chemistry, 2019, 19(11): 1953-1960. |
| LUN T.L.T., WANG K., HO J.D.-.L., Lee K.H., Sze K.Y. and Kwok K.W., Real-time Surface Shape Sensing for Soft and Flexible Structures using Fiber Bragg Gratings, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. IEEE, 2019, 4(2): 1454 - 1461. |
| Researcher : Li Y |
| Project Title: | World Renewable Energy Congress VII Analysis and Design of Hybrid Ventilation and Cooling in Buildings |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 06/2002 |
| Project Title: | Full-scale study of air conditioning systems for SARS wards |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Other Funding Scheme |
| Start Date: | 06/2006 |
| Project Title: | Healthy Buildings 2006 - Creating a Healthy Indoor Environment for People How Far Respiratory Droplets Move in Indoor Environments? |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 06/2006 |
| Project Title: | A 3D urban surface heat balance model for a complex high-rise compact urban canopy layer |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2011 |
| Project Title: | Proximity effect - Exploring short-range and long-range airborne routes of expiratory exposure between people in indoor environment |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Cowling BJ |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 10/2012 |
| Project Title: | Formation of droplet nuclei and airborne exposure in hospital wards |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Cowling BJ |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) - General Program |
| Start Date: | 01/2013 |
| Project Title: | SmartComfort - Use of smartphone and cloud technologies for building thermal comfort, and ventilation and health studies in megacities |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) - General Award |
| Start Date: | 01/2014 |
| Project Title: | Outstanding Researcher Award 2013-14 |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Outstanding Researcher Award |
| Start Date: | 12/2014 |
| Project Title: | Effectiveness of building ventilation on reducing multi-route transmission of influenza in a large city |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Wu JTK, Cowling BJ |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2015 |
| Project Title: | Logistic growth of the surface touch/contamination network in the built environment and its roles in disease spread |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Cowling BJ |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 11/2015 |
| Project Title: | Mechanisms of contact particle transfer between skin and fomite in the built environment |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Zhang T, Lin Y, Yen H |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2017 |
| Project Title: | Environmental studies of the spread of respiratory viruses in a large dense urban social network |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Cowling BJ, Huang M, Yen H, Chao YHC |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) - Group Research Project |
| Start Date: | 06/2017 |
| Project Title: | Mobile LiDAR 3D wind profiler for urban boundary layer studies |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Liu CH, Pan W, Ng TST, Webster CJ, Huang J, Tian L |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Small Equipment Grant |
| Start Date: | 06/2017 |
| Project Title: | HeatDome: The effects of ideal city shape and city clusters on urban-like heat island circulation in a calm and stratified environment |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 11/2017 |
| Project Title: | Understanding the mechanisms of mitigating extreme heat events by greening in Hong Kong |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Fund for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2018 |
| Project Title: | Understanding extreme heat events in and around a dense high-rise city |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | European Commission (EC)/Research Grants Council (RGC) Collaboration Scheme |
| Start Date: | 05/2018 |
| Project Title: | Synergistic effects of heat dome and foehn wind on extreme heat events in a dense high-rise city |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Ren C |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 01/2019 |
| Project Title: | Exploratory study of the use of wearable sensors and AI in exploring close contact behavior of people |
| Investigator(s): | Li Y, Yen H |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Fund for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 05/2019 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Zhang N., Zhao P. and Li Y., Increased infection severity in downstream cities in infectious disease transmission and tourists surveillance analysis, Journal of Theoretical Biology. 2019, 470: 20-29. |
| Zhang N., Li Y. and Huang H., Surface touch and its network growth in a graduate student office, Indoor Air. 2018, 28: 963-972. |
| Zhang N. and Li Y., Transmission of Influenza A in a Student Office Based on Realistic Person-to-Person Contact and Surface Touch Behaviour, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2018, 15: 1699. |
| Researcher : Ngan AHW |
| Project Title: | Stress-exponent measurement of nano-grained thin-films by nanoindentation |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 09/2002 |
| Project Title: | Statistical distribution, size and time dependence of initial yield strength in submicron crystals |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 09/2006 |
| Project Title: | Outstanding Researcher Award 2006-2007 |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Outstanding Researcher Award |
| Start Date: | 11/2007 |
| Project Title: | Ultra-high Strength Micro-sized Materials |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 10/2010 |
| Project Title: | Anodized Aluminium Oxide Nano-honeycomb with Selective Spatial Ordering of Pore Channels by Substrate Conditioning - Theory and Experiment |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Incentive Award for RGC GRF Fundable But Not Funded Projects |
| Start Date: | 07/2011 |
| Project Title: | Novel actuating behaviour of nanoporous oxide-on-metal hybrid materials |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | General Research Fund (GRF) |
| Start Date: | 09/2014 |
| Project Title: | Metallurgical fundamentals of metals manufactured by 3D printing involving the SLS process - electron microscopy, nanomechanical characterization and multi-scale/physics modeling |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Fund for Basic Research |
| Start Date: | 03/2017 |
| Completion Date: | 08/2018 |
| Project Title: | A new type of low-cost, high-performance actuating materials based on nickel-hydroxide/oxyhydroxide: establishing the processing, microstructure and performance relation for device design and fabrication |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | Seed Fund for Basic Research for Resubmission of GRF/ECS Proposals |
| Start Date: | 07/2018 |
| Completion Date: | 11/2018 |
| Project Title: | MRS 2019 Spring Meeting; Nano-Chemomechanics at Play—Novel Nickel-Hydroxide Thin-Film Actuating Materials for Micro-Robotics Applications |
| Investigator(s): | Ngan AHW |
| Department: | Mechanical Engg |
| Source(s) of Funding: | URC/CRCG - Conference Support for Teaching Staff |
| Start Date: | 04/2019 |
| Completion Date: | 04/2019 |
| List of Research Outputs |
| Kwan K.W., Xie D., Zhang R., Shan Z. and Ngan A.H.W., Electron-Beam Induced Water Removal, Phase Change, and Crystallization of Anodic-Electrodeposited Turbostratic Nickel Hydroxide-Oxyhydroxide, Physica Status Solidi (a). Weinheim, WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co., 2018, 1800623. |