Funding

Ongoing

  1. Co-PI. RGC Collaborative Research Fund (CRF) 2025/26.

  2. Co-I. RGC General Research Fund (GRF) 2025/26.

  3. PI. Stellar SDF Academic Research Award 2025 Q3 [Initially awarded in the 2025 Q1 round, withdrawn due to leaving HKUST, then re-applied and re-awarded in 2025 Q3].

  4. PI. CCF-Huawei Populus Grove Fund for Systems 2025.

  5. PI. Lingnan Start-up Grant 2025.

  6. PI. Lingnan Direct Grant 2025.

  7. PI. Lingnan Faculty Research Grant 2025. [two per year]

  8. PI. Lingnan Professional Allowance Fund per year, added with the Staff Publication Reward Scheme (SPRS) per year.

  9. Lingnan PhD Student Fund.

  10. Lingnan Presidential Postdoc Quota.

Completed

  1. PI. UGC-funded HKUST Teaching and Learning Innovation Projects (TLIP) 2024/25.

  2. Proposal Writer. Singapore Cybersecurity Industry Call for Innovation (CyberCall), 2024-25.

  3. Co-PI. UGC Special Grant for Strategic Development of Virtual Teaching and Learning (VTLR05), 2021-23.

  4. PI. UGC-funded CUHK Courseware Development Grant (CDG), 2019-22.

  5. PI. CUHK Direct Grant, 2019-22.

  6. Collaborator. Singapore NRF NSoE – Mobile Systems Security and Cloud Security (NSOE MSS-CS) grant, 2019-22.

  7. Co-I. Huawei Research (Hong Kong)’s HIRP, 2016-17.

  8. Admin Coordinator & Lead Student. ITF Tier-3 Grant ITS/073/12, 2012-14.

Award

Stellar SDF Academic Research Award, 2025.

NDSS Distinguished Paper Award, 2025.

The Best Teaching Award of the MScIE Programme, CUHK, 2021.

Hall of Fame in Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Yandex, Mail.Ru, Baidu, Tencent, Alibaba, etc., 2014 - 2021.

NDSS (Network and Distributed System Security Symposium) Student Travel Grant, 2019.

Secure Mobile Center PhD Scholarship (the sole awardee), Singapore Management University, 2015.

The official acknowledgement letter from the Hong Kong Jockey Club for a serious RCE bug, 2014.

CVEs

To be listed.