Congratulations to Prof. Pengyu Zhu, Associate Professor of the Division of Public Policy at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) who has received the inaugural CLP Research Fellowship Programme Award for 2022-23. This awarded project aims to develop a planning model for an EV charging infrastructure based on trip trajectories and Point of Interest (POI) density, using a combined method of optimization algorithms and spatial econometric models., to develop a year-by-year plan for establishing charging stations (CSs) in Hong Kong in the coming 5 years.
Prof. Zhu received his PhD in Policy, Planning and Development from the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California in 2011. His research focuses on the Transportation--Land Use--Economic Development Policy nexus and has been published in major academic journals such as Landscape and Urban Planning, Urban Studies, Annals of Regional Sciences, Transportation, Transportation Research Part D, Urban Geography, Cities, Regional Science and Urban Economics, and International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, his instrumental work has also been highlighted in an array of major scientific media such as Wall Street Journal, Slate Magazine, CityLab, Per Square Mile, and Reason Foundation. In January and February 2017, Prof. Zhu was ranked the top 5% and 3% of researchers on Academia.edu by 30-day views of his research articles. In the past few years, Prof. Zhu has received over USD $500,000 (equivalent) in research grants. Due to his exceptional work in the field of Regional Science, Prof. Zhu was awarded the 25th Charles M. Tiebout Prize in Regional Science in 2011 and the Regional Science Springer Prize in 2014.
About CLP Research Fellowship Programme Award
CLP Research Fellowship Programme Award is inaugurated in 2022 to support academic R&D projects in the energy-related sector and based at Hong Kong universities. The nature of this programme is to support a variety of energy-related projects, such as pilot or feasibility studies, collection of preliminary data, secondary analysis of existing data, self-contained research projects and development of new research technology/methodology.
Each award gives 100% sponsorship to a single Principal Investigator of up to HK$400K research funding, lasting for a period of 12 months.