With great pleasure, we are thrilled to announce that Mr. Xubin REN, currently a Year 3 PhD candidate at HKU IDS supervised by Professor Chao Huang, has been awarded the “Ant InTech Scholarship – Future (Year 2025) (螞蟻InTech科技獎學金（未來）)” for young researchers.

The Ant InTech Award, at its second year of occurrence, aims to recognize the outstanding young Chinese researchers to continuously strive for excellence in exploring and resolving pressing issues in the scientific development of AI and machine learning. This year, the Ant Group focuses on four core areas: general artificial intelligence (AGI) technology, embodied intelligence technology, digital medicine technology, data processing, and security and privacy technology, and the award presentation ceremony for the InTech Awards & InTech Scholarships – Future took place alongside with The 2025 Inclusion · Conference on the Bund, in Shanghai, China, on September 11, 2025.

Xubin, together with 9 other junior researchers pursuing doctoral studies in various esteemed universities such as Tsinghua University, National University of Singapore, and Fudan University, received the honour. 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 their ongoing good works! Learn more about the scholarship here: https://www.antresearch.com/cooperation/InTech