Projects Funded by SCRI | Otto Poon Charitable Foundation Smart Cities Research Institute

Date	Funding Scheme	Title	PI/PC
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Resilient Low-Altitude Spatial Intelligence under Extreme Urban Environments	WANG Bing (AAE)
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Inclusivity Assessment of Public Spaces for Older Adults’ Physical Activity in Megacities: A Comparative Study of Hong Kong and Shenzhen	LI Xiao (LSGI)
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Stochastic dynamic optimization methods for integrating assistive technology and embodied intelligent system for the elderly	CHEN Xiaojun (AMA)
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Bottleneck research for smart mobilities: The integrated zero-emission approach to optimally tackle the charging bottleneck of UAVs in high-density cities	CAO Sunliang (BEEE)
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Advanced Cross-domain Spatio-Temporal Analytics for Urban Data	LI Qing (COMP)
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Drone-as-a-Service (DaaS) as an Integrated Truck-Drone-Locker Delivery System: Subscription Business Models, Consumer Valuation, and the Smart Economy	JANG Sunghoon (CEE)
Apr 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Unlocking the Atmospheric Potential of Hong Kong's Geodetic Infrastructure: A Pilot Study for AI-Enhanced Environmental Monitoring in Support of a Major ECF Initiative	AWANGE Joseph (LSGI)
Jan 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Scalable-AI technologies for studying and monitoring travelers’ perceptions of crowding in global urban destinations	XU Yang (LSGI)
Jan 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Urban Smart Digital Services via LLM-based Multi-Agent Collaboration	XIAO Bin (COMP)
Jan 2026	Interdisciplinary Research Fund	Harnessing Brain-Signal Decoding to Empower Individuals with Disabilities	TAN Kay-chen (DSAI)