Projects as Principal Investigator

• A multimodal simultaneous language processing-modeling system. Large Equipment Fund for Research 2022/23, Areas of Excellence committee, PolyU, (1.3.2023 -- 28.2.2024), HK$1,202,470.

• Enriching the Context of Prosodic Training: A Study of Cantonese Speakers’ Perception and Production of Mandarin Tone Sandhi and Focus Prosody (with Dr. James German, and Dr. Chin-hsi Lin), RGC GRF 2022/23, (1.1.2023 -- 31.12.2025), HK$893,700.

• Does verb bias modulate syntactic processing and thematic role assignment? (with Postdoc fellow Dr. Bernard Jap), PolyU Postdoc Matching Fund Scheme, (7.3.2023 -- 6.3.2025), HK$849,600.

• Emergent Meaning: Unifying the Multifaceted Uses of the Tagalog Prefix ka- (with Postdoc fellow Dr. Henrison Hsieh), PolyU Distinguished Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme, (YWBQ, 30.3.2022 -- 29.3.2025), HK$1,288,513.

• Facial emotion recognition in computer-mediated language-learning spoken corpus, RGC Direct Allocation Grant, (PB1C, 14.6.2021 -- 13.6.2023), HK$200,000.

• Neural Correlates of Thematic Role Assignment and WH-Movement in Standard Indonesian (with Dr. Bernard Jap and Dr. Stephen Politzer-Ahles), PolyU Faculty Reserve, (ZVXM, 1.12.2021 -- 30.4.2023), HK$161,980.

• Empathetic Dialog Systems (with Postdoc fellow Dr. Bo Peng; with Dr. Emmanuele Chersoni, and Prof. Chu-ren Huang), PolyU Postdoc Matching Fund Scheme (W16H, 1.8.2021 -- 31.7.2023), HK$655,200.

• Processing Covert Dependency: An Eye-tracking Study of Scope Interpretations of Embedded Wh-questions in Mandarin, Departmental general research fund, (UALS, 10.5.2021 -- 16.2.2023), HK$96,073.

• An Eye-tracking Study to How Native and Non-native Adult Readers Apply Orthographic Knowledge to Recognize Chinese Phonograms, PolyU Start-up Fund, (BE3F, 1.7.2020 -- 30.6.2023), HK$164,585.

• Lexical repetition and persistence of priming effects in Chinese comprehension, PolyU Dean’s reserve, International collaboration fund. (with Dr. Chien-Jer Charles Lin, Indiana University), HK$300,000.

• Focus and prosodic cues in two varieties of Chinese, (with Dr. James German, Aix-Marseille University, France) PolyU CBS Departmental International Collaboration fund. HK$199,999.

• Effects of Orthographic Consistency on Word Recognition and Comprehension among Readers of Traditional Chinese, PolyU CBS Departmental General Research Fund (4-ZZHN), (2017.8-2018.9), HK$100,000

• Research Method Course Enhancement Funds UGC T&L Project on Information Literacy, PolyU (2016.12-2018.6)   

• Syntactic Features and Comprehension of Doubly Quantified Sentences, PolyU Research Grant for GRF/ECS Proposal Rated 3.5 in 2016/2017 (G-YBR8), (2016.10-2018.10), HK$105,000. 

• Interpreting and Processing Scopes of Double Quantifiers in Chinese, PolyU Research Grant for GRF/ECS Proposal Rated 3.5 in 2015/2016 (G-YBGL), (2016.1-2017.3), HK$105,600.

• Processing Chinese Relative Clauses and Focus within Complex Nominals, PolyU CBS Departmental General Research Fund (G-UAA8), (2016.6-2017.5), HK$100,000

• Distributional Variation of Chinese Relative Clauses and Information Structure, PolyU Dean’s reserve, start-up fund (1-ZVF3), (2015.6-2016.12), HK$85,415.

Projects as Co-Investigator

• Modeling Human Reading Times of Non-Compositional Expressions with Recurrent Neural Networks and Transformers (with Dr. Emmanuele Chersoni), (BD8S, 2021.6 -- 2023. 5), PolyU Start-up Fund, HK$250,000.

• Conversational Brains (CoBra) (with Prof. Chu-ren Huang and colleagues) (ZG9X, 2020.9 -- 2024.8), Horizon 2020, European Commission, HK$509,670.

• Towards a comparative approach to second language learning/teaching through desktop videoconferencing to develop the techno-semio-pedagogical competences of trainee teachers, the Agence Nationale de la Recherche, AAPG ANR 2018, (with Dr. Marco Cappellini, Aix-Marseille University)  

• 中文词素觉识对阅读认知历程的作用:来自眼动的证据, 上海交通大学人文社科学术领域专项, (与杜容玥博士合作)，(2016.9 -- 2018.8), RMB$100,000

• Effect of Working Memory, Expertise and Directionality on Cognitive Effort in English/Chinese Sight Translation – Evidence from Eye-Tracking Experiments, PolyU CBS Departmental General Research Fund (4-ZZGF, 2016.11 -- 2018.11) (with Dr. LI Dechao, PolyU and Dr. TSAI Jie-Li, National Chengchi University), HK$199,750