Our Colleagues Received Funding Support from RGC’s Early Career Scheme

[August 2025 issue]

Eight NA-affiliated colleagues received funding support from the Research Grants Council (RGC)’s Early Career Scheme 2025/26. This Scheme aims to nurture emerging scholars and help them prepare for careers in teaching and research. Details are as follows:
(In alphabetical order of surnames)

Principal Investigator	Faculty/Department	Project Title
Professor Chan Ngan-yin Rachel	Department of Psychiatry	Prevent worsening of depressive symptoms using digital cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia and circadian intervention in college students
Professor Choi Pui-tung Gary	Department of Mathematics	Morphometrics and morphogenesis using functional data analysis and quasi-conformal geometry
Professor Li Man-ho Tim	Department of Psychiatry	Leveraging multimodal ecological momentary assessment and artificial intelligence to predict depression recurrence: A prospective cohort study
Professor Liang Xiao	Department of Computer Science and Engineering	On the (Im)possibility of Quantum Multi-Party Computation
Professor Peters Kyle Austin	Department of Japanese Studies	Kyoto School, Print Media, and the “Everyday” Turn in Modern Japanese Philosophy
Professor Wan Qingyun	Department of Chemistry	One-Dimensional Heterometallic Chain Linked by Metal-Metal Open-Shell…Closed-Shell Interaction
Professor Zhang Xiang Jennifer	Department of Medicine and Therapeutics	Exploring the Protective Role of Bacteroides intestinalis against Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Professor Zhang Jingwan	Department of Medicine and Therapeutics	Deciphering the role of Proteus mirabilis in triggering postoperative recurrence of Crohn's disease

Top row from left: Professor Chan Ngan-yin Rachel, Professor Choi Pui-tung Gary, Professor Li Man-ho Tim and Professor Liang Xiao
Bottom row from left: Professor Peters Kyle Austin, Professor Wan Qingyun, Professor Zhang Xiang Jennifer and Professor Zhang Jingwan