[November 2024 issue]
Seven NA-affiliated colleagues received funding support from the Research Grants Council (RGC)’s Early Career Scheme 2024/25. Established in 2012/13, the 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 Chen Hongfan Kevin | Department of Decisions, Operations and Technology | Optimal Growth in Two-Sided Market Networks |
| Professor Fang Guoxin | Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering | Computational Sensor Design and Digital Fabrication for Soft Robots Realizing Perception and Proprioception |
| Professor Hui Xiaoyan Hannah | School of Biomedical Sciences | Deciphering the Role of Adipose Mesothelial Cell in Visceral Adipose Dysfunction Induced by Hyperandrogenism |
| Professor Han Siqi | Department of Sociology | Non-Specialized Skill Sets or Low-Status Credentials? Employer-Perceived Worker Skills and Horizontal Stratification in China and the U.S. |
| Professor Khalikova Venera | Department of Anthropology | Precarious Privilege of Highly Skilled Transnational Migrants: An Ethnography of South Asian Women Expatriates in Hong Kong |
| Professor Li Gen | Department of Statistics | Statistical Foundations of Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning |
| Professor Ying Chao | Department of Finance | Debt Covenants and Maturity Management |
Top row from left: Professor Chen Hongfan Kevin, Professor Fang Guoxin, Professor Hui Xiaoyan Hannah, Professor Han Siqi
Bottom row from left: Professor Khalikova Venera, Professor Li Gen, Professor Ying Chao
