Hong Kong PhD Fellowships 2016/17
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Transcript of Hong Kong PhD Fellowships 2016/17
Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme 2016/17Established by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong in 2009, the Hong Kong PhDFellowship Scheme (HKPFS) aims at attracting the best and brightest students in the world to pursuetheir PhD studies and research in Hong Kong's institutions.
EligibilityCandidates who are seeking admission as new full time PhD students at PolyU, irrespective of theircountry of origin, prior work experience, and ethnic background, are eligible to apply. If you aresuccessful, you may pursue your research under supervision by one of more academic staff in theKnowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre (KMIRC).
The AwardThe Fellowship will provide a 3-year tuition scholarship (i.e. tuition fees are waived), a monthlystipend of HK$20,000 (approx. US$2,500) and a conference and research-related travel allowance ofHK$10,000 (approx. US$1,300) per year for a maximum of three years.
The Knowledge Management and Innovation Research Centre (KMIRC) (Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering) Research StrengthKMIRC has an active team researching into both technology aspects as well as human andorganizational aspects of Knowledge Management (KM). Currently, there are five focuses of researchin the Centre: Knowledge Systems Technologies; Cloud Services and Open Innovation; Intellectual Capital Management and Organizational Learning; Knowledge Management Models, Theories and Practices; and Knowledge Elicitation and Knowledge Audit
In August 2015, KMIRC further delivered PolyU’s first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)
ISE101x Knowledge Management and Big Data in Business on the MIT edX platform. It was hugely
successful with more than 26,000 registrations and today it remains one of key MOOCs on KM.
Ir Professor W.B. LEEChair Professor and Director of the Knowledge Management and Innovation Research CentreIn 2002, Prof. Lee established the Knowledge Solution Laboratory in the PolyU -Microsoft Enterprise Systems Centre, the first of its kind in Hong Kong and haspioneered research and practice of KM in Hong Kong for various industrial sectorswhich include manufacturing, trading, public utilities, various governmentdepartments and health care. He is currently the chief editor of the InternationalJournal of Knowledge and Systems Science, co-Editor of the Journal ofInformation and Knowledge Management Systems, and associate editor of theInternational Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital and Learning. Hisresearch interest includes manufacturing technology and strategy, knowledgemanagement, organizational learning, intellectual capital-based management andopen service innovation.Email: [email protected]
Professor Eric TsuiProfessor and Associate Director, Knowledge Management and Innovation Research CentreProf Tsui joined Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) in 1989 after years ofacademic research in automated knowledge acquisition, natural language processing,case-based reasoning and knowledge engineering tools. He has designed anddelivered numerous public and custom-designed knowledge management andtechnologies workshops. His research strengths include cloud-based businessinnovation and knowledge services. He has also consulted for many governmentdepartments and private organizations in Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore,Malaysia, Thailand and Brunei. Professor Tsui is an honorary advisor of KM to thePolice College, Hong Kong Police Force. He is a recipient of the KM LeadershipAward and KM and Intellectual Capital Excellence Award in 2014 and 2015respectively.Email: [email protected]
Professor Benny Cheung Professor and Associate Director, Knowledge Management and Innovation Research CentreProf Cheung has been conducting research into knowledge and technologymanagement (KTM) since 2004. His research in KTM encompasses a broad rangeof methods and tools built on a basis of Information Processing and ArtificialIntelligence technologies for supporting the management of knowledge andtechnology catered for various industries such as manufacturing, transportation,social service, public utilities, etc. He has also conducted research on knowledgeauditing, intellectual capital management (ICM), technology roadmapping andassessment for enhancing innovation and learning capability in firms andorganizations. Currently, he is the programme leader of the Master of Science inTechnology Management in the Department.Email: [email protected]
Academic Staff ProfileKMIRC has a core group of well regarded practitioners and researchers with established trackrecord in Organizational Learning (OL), Culture and Change, Intellectual Capital Management,Knowledge Audit, Knowledge Systems, and E-Learning. Capabilities and competencies of theKMIRC are further strengthened by the international alliances it has formed with leadingpractitioners worldwide.
Dr Eric See-To
Assistant Professor
Eric See-To is Assistant Professor at Department of Industrial and Systems
Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Prior to the current
appointment, Eric served as Senior Lecturer in the Business School of University
of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in UK, and as Lecturer in Department of Management
Science of Lancaster University Management School in UK. His current projects
include application of text mining techniques to financial valuation of innovation
and intangible assets, and analysis of online opinions and sentiments with social
network and data mining. Eric’s research focuses also on the strategy and
consumer behaviors in mobile and digital environments, and business intelligence
and knowledge mining. He studies the role of information and digital interaction,
empowered by technology, in formulating business model and marketing
strategy, and the practical applications of business intelligence and knowledge
mining. His work has been published in international journals such as Journal of
Management Information Systems (JMIS), Research Policy, Technological
Forecasting and Social Change, Electronic Markets, Information Systems
Frontiers, and Journal of Electronic Commerce Research.Email: [email protected]
Our StudentsPhD Student Muhammad Aamir
Khan from Pakistan
Project Title:
A Study on the
relationship between
Knowledge Management and
Organisation Performance in
service industries
PhD Student Jessica
Yip from Hong Kong
Project Title:
A Design Based
Research to Conduct
Knowledge Audit for
Unstructured Business
Processes
Visit KMIRC:
Application
We encourage you to apply for the Scheme and join our Centre; simply submit application
on-line to Research Grants Council and our University.
Application for the Scheme at Research Grants Council:
https://cerg1.ugc.edu.hk/hkpfs/index.html
Application for the Scheme at PolyU:
www.polyu.edu.hk/ro/hkphd-fellowship
The system will be open for application on 1 September 2015 and it will close by 1 Dec
2015. Please stay tuned on the above websites.
More Information:
General Enquiry: Prof. Eric Tsui [email protected]
KMIRC website: http://kmirc.ise.polyu.edu.hk/
PhD Student Farzad Sabetzadeh
from Iran
Research title: Assessment of
Knowledge Quality in Peer
Review Process for Research
Publications.
Welcome to join us!
PhD Student
Muhammad Saleem
Sumbal, an awardee
of the PhD
Fellowship scheme
in 2014
PhD Student
Nikolina Dragicevic
from Croatia
Research title: Knowledge
navigation quizzics as an intelligent
ICT tool in organizations.
