Funding Awards
External Awards as PC/PI/Co-PI
- RGC CRF Young Collaborative Research Grant (YCRG). A Predictive Personalization Approach to Enhance Foreign Language Learning and Teaching (Ref. No. C4001-23Y). Role: PC. HK$ 4,845,992. 2024-2027. Ongoing.
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Excellent Young Scientists Fund (Hong Kong & Macao) (國家優秀青年科學基金項目（港澳）). Cognitive Neuroscience of Language Learning (Ref. No. 32322090). Role: PI. RMB￥2,000,000. 2024-2026. Ongoing.
- RGC General Research Fund (GRF). Neurophysiological Markers of Successful Normalization and Abstraction in Speech Learning (Ref. No. 14621424). Role: PI. HK$ 708,894. 2025-2027. Ongoing.
- RGC General Research Fund (GRF). Neural Representations Underlying Successful Generalization in Auditory Category Learning (Ref. No. 14612923). Role: PI. HK$ 924,500. 2024-2025. Ongoing.
- RGC General Research Fund (GRF). Neural and Cognitive Fingerprints of General Language Learning Ability (Ref. No. 14614221). Role: PI. HK$ 1,008,840. 2023-2025. Ongoing.
- RGC General Research Fund (GRF). Cortico-striatal Systems Underlying Supervised Speech Learning (Ref. No. 14619518). Role: PI. HK$ 780,085. 2019-2022. Completed.
- RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF). Hyperscanning to Explore the Human Mind in Ensemble (Ref. No. C4001-22EF). Role: Co-PI. HK$ 8,330,150. 2023-2026. Ongoing.
- RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF). A Predict-to-Prescribe Approach to Social Communication Treatment in Chinese Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (Ref. No. C4024-21GF). Role: Co-PI. HK$ 7,974,224. 2022-2025. Ongoing.
- RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF). Using Advanced Neuroimaging to Predict Language and Cognitive Outcomes in Pre-Term Infants (Ref. No. C4055-19G). Role: Co-PI, HK$ 5,559,743. 2020-2023. Completed.
Other External Awards as Co-I
- Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, Guangdong Province Key Areas Research and Development Program Project. Neural Mechanisms and Applications of Multimodal Integration in Language Processing (廣東省重點領域研發計畫專案, 語言加工中多模態整合的腦機制及其應用) (Ref. No. 2023B0303010004). Role: Co-I, RMB￥5,000,000. 2023-2026. Ongoing.
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC). The brain reorganization after hearing loss and rehabilitation: mechanism and prognosis (聽覺障礙與跨模態大腦皮層重組:機制與預後) (NSFC Ref. No. 32171051). Role: Co-I. RMB￥650,000. 2022-2025. Ongoing.
- RGC, General Research Fund (GRF). Using Neuroimaging to Predict Language Outcomes in Chinese-Learning Children with Cochlear Implants (Ref. No. 14605119). Role: Co-I. HK$ 800,020. 2020-2022. Completed.
- Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), Innovation and Technology Support Programme (ITSP). Neural Predictors of Language Development (Ref. No. ITS/067/18). Role: Co-I. HK$ 1,399,563. 2019-2020. Completed.
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Research Project. Neurocognitive Mechanisms of Pitch Perception in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Aged 6-12: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Tracking Study (6-12歲自閉症譜系障礙兒童音調感知的認知神經機制：橫向與縱向追蹤研究) (Ref. No. 31571136). Role: Co-I. RMB￥775,000. 2016-2019. Completed.
- National Social Science Foundation of China (NSSFC), Key Research Project. Research on Chinese Concept Representation and Semantic Integration (漢語概念表徵與語義整合研究) (Ref. No. 15AZD048). (Role: Co-I). RMB￥350,000. 2016-2018. Completed.
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), General Research Project. The Role of the Anterior Temporal Lobe in Semantic Processing (左側顳葉前部在語義加工中的作用) (Ref. No. 31271086). Role: Co-I. RMB￥800,000. 2013-2016. Completed.