Dr. HUANG Xin receives RGC’s Early Career Awards in 2020/21

Dr. HUANG Xin, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, recently won Research Grants Council’s (RGC) Early Career Awards in 2020/21 in recognition of his excellent achievements in research.

His funded project is titled “Efficient Community Search on Large Directed Graphs”, for an amount of HK$1.1 million.

Applications for research project grants under the Early Career Scheme (ECS) are assessed independently by international experts, with applicants required to be full-time academic staff members within the first three years of employment at a University Grants Committee (UGC) funded institution. This year, the ECS received 414 applications from all eight UGC-funded universities and 163 projects were funded. Dr. Huang was the only early-career scholar in HKBU received Early Career Awards due to their “excellent” ratings with a full score of 5.0.

Source: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=fac_ach&id=139