PPHD10-Agent Report / 001Sources

P0 Target / 2026-08-04

Professor Chao Huang
& HKUDS.

Public-source diligence on Data Intelligence Lab@HKU, its Agent-native research trajectory, Pengyi fit, application strategy and Greater Bay Area comparison set.

P0Prepare target-specific pitchVerify current opening before outreach

Executive judgment

Application-driven Agent Infrastructure.

The strongest intersection is research on how retrieval, memory, tools, planning and evaluation change reliability and cost in high-constraint Quant workflows. HKU sources identify Professor Huang as an Assistant Professor and PhD supervisor leading Data Intelligence Lab@HKU, with work spanning LLMs, AI agents and graph machine learning.

01

Collector

Identity and supervisor role verified. Current funded opening remains unverified.

02

Analyzer

Very high Agent-system fit; experimental isolation and publication evidence are the main gaps.

03

Future

Trajectory moves from graph/recommendation into RAG, runtimes, ecosystems and domain Agents.

04

Writer

Pitch one controlled research question, not the number of Agent Teams built.

05

Interviewer

Expect attacks on novelty, baselines, leakage, variance and generality beyond Quant.

06

Campus Helper

Plan HKU research rhythm and Shenzhen-Hong Kong mobility only after a verified path exists.

07

Future Development

Strong transfer to Agent Infra, open-source AI systems and AI-native Quant research.

08

Relationship

Reproduce, publish evidence, obtain technical feedback, then request approved outreach.

09

Paper Collector

Map retrieval, runtime, research/coding and domain-application project clusters.

10

Paper Writer

Ablate capabilities against success, leakage, cost and human-intervention metrics.

Candidate RP

Verifiable Quant research as an Agent benchmark.

Deterministic baseline
+ Base LLM Agent
+ PAT-enabled variants
+ Capability ablations
+ Success / leakage / cost / intervention evaluation

The contribution must be a controlled result about which capability improves which failure mode. “An AI Quant platform” is not a sufficient novelty claim.

Similar-group map

HKU first. Greater Bay Area next.

HKU / P0

Data Intelligence Lab

Chao Huang: LLMs, agents, graph learning and open-source systems.

HKU / P1

IoT Lab

Edith Ngai: Edge General Intelligence and LLM multi-agent collaboration.

HKU / P1

AI-Agents in Business

Multi-agent platforms and domain-specific business Agents.

HKU / Adjacent

SAIL / InfoBodied

Multimodal, spatial and embodied Agent research.

HKUST(GZ)

Xuming Hu / Jian Guo

Trustworthy LLM systems and AI-for-Quant research; supervision routes require verification.

CUHK-Shenzhen

Zhongxiang Dai / Mengnan Du

LLM Agents, routing, optimization, reasoning and trustworthy AI.

SLAI

AI Theory & Systems

AI infrastructure, chips, automated benchmarks and Agent optimization.

SLAI

Language Model & HCI

Agentic intelligence and human-AI society; identify exact supervisor and route.

Highest-IG Action

Freeze the RP outline and Benchmark Card by August 6.

Then verify the current recruitment route and opening before asking Pengyi to approve outreach. No autonomous email or admission claim.

Primary sources

HKU profileLab profileHKUDS GitHubHKU IDS studentsHKU IDS RPGSLAI