My research has been generously supported by funding from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, HKUST, WeBank, Ping An Insurance Group, Kaisa Group, and HSBC Hong Kong. Below is a list of grants for which I serve as the Principal Investigator (PI), Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI), or Co-Investigator (Co-I).
PI
| # | Funding Agency | Amount | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) |
HKD $661,494 | From Inquiry to Purchase: Optimizing Large Language Model-Based Conversational AI for Enhanced Customer Conversion | 2025–2028 |
| 13 | Ping An Insurance Group 中国平安财产保险股份有限公司 |
RMB ¥1,000,000 | Generative AI in Asset Management | 2025–2026 |
| 12 | HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chain Institute | HKD $150,000 | GenAI-Powered Market News Summarization for Supply Chain Risk Monitoring | 2025–2026 |
| 11 | HKUST Li & Fung Supply Chain Institute | HKD $150,000 | Developing a Corporate Credit Risk Index for Hong Kong Firms Using Supply Chain Data and Machine Learning | 2025–2026 |
| 10 | HKUST Bridge Gap Fund | HKD $312,300 | Automatic Embedding Adaptation for Enterprise Proprietary Data | 2025–2026 |
| 9 | HKUST–WeBank Joint Laboratory | HKD $500,000 | Key Technologies for Combating GenAI-based Financial Fraud | 2025–2026 |
| 8 | HKUST–WeBank Joint Laboratory | HKD $580,608 | Multimodal Financial Large Language Model for Stock Market Prediction | 2024–2026 |
| 7 | Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) |
HKD $701,494 | How Generative AI Impacts Financial Analysis | 2024–2027 |
| 6 | HSBC Hong Kong | HKD $680,000 | A Safe and Reliable Domain-Specific Model with Reduced Hallucinations in LLM Systems | 2023–2025 |
| 5 | HKUST–WeBank Joint Laboratory | HKD $600,000 | Financial Large Language Model As-A-Service: Development and Applications | 2023–2024 |
| 4 | HKUST–WeBank Joint Laboratory | HKD $497,000 | Pre-training for Tabular Business Data | 2022–2023 |
| 3 | HKUST–Kaisa Group Seed Project on FinTech | HKD $550,000 | Deep Learning in Financial NLP | 2021–2022 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Research Grants Council Early Career Scheme (ECS) |
HKD $458,000 | Beyond Text: The Information Role of Voice in Financial Market | 2019–2022 |
| 1 | HKUST | HKD $100,000 | University Initial Grant | 2017 |
Co-PI or Co-I
| # | Funding Agency | Role | Title | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme |
Co-PI | Strengthening Hong Kong as a Global Financial Center by Enhancing the Overall Regtech Capacity of the Industry and Facilitating the Regulation and Infrastructure Design of CBDC and Digital Assets in Hong Kong | 2024-2025 |
| 2 | Hong Kong Research Grants Council General Research Fund (GRF) |
Co-PI | Product Recommendations in Email Campaigns for Passive Customers | 2022-2024 |
| 1 | Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme |
Co-I | Contributing to the Development of Hong Kong into a Global Fintech Hub | 2018–2022 |