HKU IDS is very thrilled and proud to announce that Mr. Xubin REN, 2nd Year PhD candidate at HKU IDS, who is supervised by Professor Chao Huang, on being honoured one of the “Qingyuan Scholars「清源學者」” by GAITC 2025! 

The recipients of this honour have been reviewed and shortlisted by the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI中國人工智能大會), at The 2025 Global Artificial Intelligence Technology Conference (GAITC), which was held in Hangzhou between June 6 – 8, 2025. The “Qingyuan Scholar” selection was organized for its first batch to recognize the young talents across the globe to discover the interdisciplinary discoveries of AI and industrial developments. GAITC 2025 delved into critical issues shaping AI’s sustainable development, including AI ethics and governance, data privacy, algorithmic bias, intellectual property, and talent cultivation, fostering a collaborative and responsible AI innovation ecosystem. 

Xubin was among the five awardees titled “Qingyuan Scholar「清源學者」”, and was the only recipient from the Greater Bay Area. Other recipients were senior researchers from esteemed universities such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, and Zhejiang University. The work Xubin presented at GAITC 2025, Representation Learning with Large Language Models for Recommendation (基於大語言模型的推薦演算法表徵學習）[DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15950] , received a remarkable achievement of being recognized as the Rank #1 Most Influential Paper and the Rank #1 Most-Cited Paper among over 400 publications submitted to the ACM Web Conference, WWW’24. 

Xubin is currently supervised by Professor Chao Huang, HKU-100 IDS Scholar, whose research interests lie with Large Language Models, Autonomous Agents and Graph Machine Learning. 

Let’s join us in congratulating Xubin and Professor Huang’s team on the remarkable achievements! Read more about Xubin’s presentation and the news coverage here: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/j5QRUDT-SC3cOU5OP3ipHA