Research Projects Supported by
HKU's High Performance Computing Facilities



PREFACE  
   
Faculty of Dentistry  
   

Mr K H Tsoi & Professor B W Darvell

Aspects of Network Statistics in Polymer Fragments 
   
Faculty of Engineering  
   
Department of Civil Engineering
   
Miss Wing-man Cheung   Dynamic Traffic Assignment for Congested Highway Network 
Professor S H Lo  Analysis of Building Structures Using Hybrid Stress Hexahedral Elements

Professor L G Tham &

Three-dimensional Analysis of Brittle Materials 
Professor Chunan Tang  
Dr S C Wong  A Multi-commodity Discrete/Continuous Approach to Traffic Equilibrium Problems 
   
Department of Computer Science and Information Systems
   
Dr Francis C M Lau  China National Grid Project 
Dr Anthony T C Tam  Directed Point High-Speed Communication Interface 
Dr C L Wang  Grid Computing Projects and Systems Research Projects 
   
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
   

Dr Nelson H C Yung & Dr Kwong-keung Leung 

Dr Kwong-keung Leung   
   
Department of Industrial and and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
   
Dr Philip L Y Chan  Computation of Renewal Functions 
   
Department of Mechanical Engineering
 
Dr Dennis Y C Leung 
Dr Chun-ho Liu

Dr C O Ng & Miss Emily W M Ho

A Numerical Study On Turbulent Oscillatory Plane Couette flow 
Dr Alfonso H W Ngan  Atomistic Simulation of 3-D Dislocation Processes 
Professor A K Soh  Mechanics of Ultra-thin Films and Nanolaminates 
Professor S T Tan  Heterogeneous Solid Modeling Using Materially Defined Geometric Entities 
Dr L Q Wang  Multiplicity and Stability in Transport Phenomena
   
Faculty of Science  
   
Department of Chemistry
 
   
Professor K Y Chan 
Miss Pik-ying Chan
Miss Wing-sum Chan  
Professor Chi-ming Che &
Dr Glenna S M Tong
Theoretical Studies of Transition Metal Containing Compounds
Dr GuanHua Chen  Electronic and Tribological Properties of Carbon Nanotube Based Structures 
Dr Allan S C Cheung  &
Dr Glenna S M Tong
Ab initio Quantum Mechanical Calculations of Metal-containing Molecules 
Mr Y H Chui &
Professor K Y Chan
Molecular Simulations of Alloy Nanoparticles 
Dr Ivan K Chu & Mr Corey N W Lam  Formation of Molecular Radical Cations of Oligopeptides 
Ms Lihong Hu  
Professor D L Phillips  Photochemistry, Chemical Dynamics and Molecular Spectroscopy 
Mr Chi-chiu Ma  Optical Properties of Carbon Nanotube 
Dr Yuk-wai Tang 
Dr Xiujun Wang 
Mr Lai-ho Wong 
Mr Chi-yung Yam 
Professor Vivian Wing-wah Yam 
   
Department of Physics
   
Dr Hoi-fung Chau  Numerical Study of Econophysical Systems
Dr Yan Chen 
Mr Ki-hiu Ho  Numerical Study of Econophysical Systems 
Mr King-fung Ho 
Dr John K C Leung 
Dr Jian Wang 
 
Department of Mathematics
 
Dr Michael K P Ng 
   
Faculty of Social Sciences
 
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
   
Dr Wai-sum Chan Some Nonlinear Time-Series Models for Actuarial Use 

Miss K Y Cheung & Dr Stephen M S Lee

Iteration on m out of n Bootstrap in Nonregular Cases 
Dr Pak-wing Fong  Heteroscedastic Models with Random Coefficients
Miss Yvonne Hoi-sheung Ho 
Miss Polly Po-ling Kam  Mixture Autoregression with Heavy-tailed Conditional Distribution 
Dr Kwok-fai Lam  Semiparametric Regression Analysis with Current Status Data &
State-space Modeling of Multivariate Grouped Survival Data
Dr Stephen M S Lee  A Study of m out of n Bootstrap Procedures for General M-estimation 
Professor Wai-keung Li  Modelling of Financial Time Series with Applications to Value-at-Risk (VAR) Problems in Financial Market Risk 
Miss Man-Chi Pun  m out of n Bootstrap for Nonstandard M-Estimation 
Miss On-yee Tang 
Dr Philip L H Yu  Statistical Methods in Finance &
Spatial Models for Multiple Ranking Data and Their Applications &
Statistical Methods for Analyzing Ranking Data and Their Applications in Business and Social Studies
Dr K C Yuen  Comparing k Cumulative Incidence Functions through Resampling Methods