Tim Cheng

• Vice-President, Research and Development, Chair Professor of Departments of Electronic and Computer Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
• Chair of 2025 Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship

Qian Zhang

• Chair Professor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences

Mengdi Wang

• Director and Professor, Center for AI Innovation, Princeton University
• Member, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance

Wei-Ying Ma

• Director of Hong Kong Institute of AI for Science
• Chair Professor of Computer Science Department, City University of Hong Kong
• Huiyan Chair Professor and Chief Scientist of AI Industry Research (AIR) Institute, Tsinghua University
• ACM / IEEE Fellow

Le Cong

• Assistant Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine
• Member, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance

Yang Yang

• Director of Shanghai Industry-Education Integration Center, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Hao Chen

• Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE), the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
• Director of Collaborative Center for Medical-Engineering Innovation
• 2023 AYS Fellow – Mathematics and Computer Science

Bo Peng

• Professor, Fudan University
• 2025 AYS Fellow – Life Science

Jun Liu

• Assistant Professor, School of Life Science at Peking University, Joint Center for Life Science at Peking University and Tsinghua University, Beijing Advanced Center of RNA Biology
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Life Science

Ling Bai

• Assistant Investigator, Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR)
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Life Science

Seongjun Park

• Associate Professor, Seoul National University
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Life Science

Danfeng Li

• Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Physical Science

Kiyoshi Miyata

• Associate Professor, Kyushu University
• 2025 AYS Fellow – Physical Science

Ming Joo Koh

• Dean's Chair Professor, National University of Singapore
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Physical Science

Tingxin Li

• Associate Professor, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• 2025 AYS Fellow – Physical Science

Hsueh-Yung Lin

• Associate Professor of Taiwan University
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Mathematics and Computer Science

In-Jee Jeong

• Associate Professor, Seoul National University
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Mathematics and Computer Science

Wenya Wang

• Assistant Professor, Nanyang Technological University
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Mathematics and Computer Science

Xiangnan He

• Professor, University of Science and Technology of China
• 2025 AYS Fellow - Mathematics and Computer Science

Jay Steven Siegel

• Vice-President and Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Teaching and Learning), The University of Hong Kong

Hee-Sup Shin

• Member of Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Honorary Fellow, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)

Hongming Weng

• Chair of 2025 Physical Science Sub-Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Professor of Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jong Hae Keum

• Chair of 2025 Mathematics Sub-Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Professor, School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Akihiro Nakao

• Chair of 2025 Computer Science Sub-Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Professor, Department of Systems Innovation, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo

Randy Schekman

• Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2013
• Professor at UC Berkeley, PI at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Stephanie Ma

• Associate Vice-President (Research and Innovation), HKU
• Associate Dean, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Hong Kong

George Hara

• Group Chairman and CEO, DEFTA Partners

Wanjin Hong

• Member of 2025 Selection Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Chief Business Development Officer of Biomedical Research Council (BMRC) and Professor and Research Director, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB), A*STAR

Jenny Zeng

• Founding Donor, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship
• Founder and Managing Partner of MSA Capital
• Member, Council of the Future Forum

Yuk-Ming Dennis Lo

• Vice-Chancellor and President, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Li Ka Shing Professor of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• President, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Associate, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Fellow, Royal Society
• 2016 Future Science Prize - Life Science Prize Laureate
• Co-Chair, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

Man-Lei Lillian Cheong

• Under Secy for Innovation, Technology and Industry, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Arieh Warshel

• Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry 2013
• Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Distinguished Professor at Large, School of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen)
• Director, Warshel Institute for Computational Biology, CUHK-Shenzhen

Zuowei Xie

• Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
• Fellow, Chinese Chemical Society
• Fellow, The Royal Society of Chemistry
• Member, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

Qilin Zhou

• Professor, Nankai University
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2018 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate

Zhiwei Zuo

• Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xinyuan Liu

• Chair Professor and Department Head of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology

Jun Yu

• Assistant Dean, Faculty of Medicine, Director, Institute of Digestive Disease, Director, State Key Laboratory of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Member, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
• Foreign Member, European Academy of Sciences
• Member, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

Rob Knight

• Wolfe Family Endowed Chair in Microbiome Research at Rady Children’s
• Director, Center for Microbiome Innovation
• Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Shu Chien-Gene Lay Department of Bioengineering, and Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, University of California, San Diego

Herbert Tilg

• M.D., Professor Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Endocrinology & Metabolism, Medical University Innsbruck, Austria

Shang Cai

• Principle Investigator, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University

Ngaiming Mok

• Chair Edmund and Peggy Tse Professor in Mathematics, Chair of Department of Mathematics, and Director of the Institute of Mathematical Research, The University of Hong Kong
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, Hong Kong Academy of Sciences
• 2022 Future Science Prize - Mathematics and Computer Science Prize Laureate
• Member, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

Chenyang Xu

• Professor of Mathematics, Princeton University
• Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS)
• 2021 Cole Prize in Algebra
• 2017 Future Science Prize - Mathematics and Computer Science Prize Laureate

Lawrence Ein

• Distinguished LAS Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS)

Song Sun

• Professor, Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics, Zhejiang University
• 2014 Sloan Research Fellow
• 2019 Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry
• 2021 Breakthrough New Horizons in Mathematics Prize

Arnoldo Frigessi

• Professor of Statistics, University of Oslo
• Director, Research Centre TRUST, Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI
• Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
• knighted Cavaliere Ordine al Merito of the Republic of Italy

Harry Shum

• Council Chairman, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Presidential Chair Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (CUHK-Shenzhen)
• Jointly Appointed Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University
• International Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• International Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)
• Council Member, The Future Forum
• Co-Chair, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

Kam-Biu Luk

• IAS Paul C. W. Chu Professor, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Distinguished Professor of Graduate School, University of California, Berkeley
• 2019 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate
• Member, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

David Gross

• Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2004
• Chancellor’s Chair Professor of Theoretical Physics, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), University of California, Santa Barbara

Reinhard Genzel

• Nobel Prize Laureate in Physics 2020
• Director, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching
• Professor of the Graduate School, Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
• Honorary Professor in Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich

Hitoshi Murayama

• MacAdams Professor of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
• Hamamatsu Professor, Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (Kavli IPMU), University of Tokyo

Steven M. Kahn

• Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley

Yifang Wang

• Professor, Institute for High Energy Physics, China
• Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
• 2019 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate

Yi Ma

• Chair Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Inaugural Director of Institute of Data Science (IDS), Inaugural Director of the School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong
• Fellow, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (lEEE)
• Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SlAM)
• Member, Program Committee of the Future Science Prize Week 2025

Jun Zhu

• Bosch AI Professor, Tsinghua University
• IEEE Fellow / AAAI Fellow
• Associate Dean, Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University
• Member, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance

Saining Xie

• Assistant Professor, Courant Institute, New York University

Qing Qu

• Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan

Jiajun Wu

• Assistant Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Psychology at Stanford University

Mau-Chung Frank Chang

• Wintek Chair and Distinguished Professor, UCLA
• Member, U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• Member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Rotating Chairman, Advisory Board of the Future Science Prize

Jenn-Chuan Chern

• Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University
• Academician, International Academy of Engineering
• Chief Executive Officer, Tang Prize Foundation

Nim Kwan Cheung

• Honorary Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• Chair, IEEE Medal of Honor Selection Committee
• Council Member, Hong Kong Academy of Engineering
• Board of Director, IEEE Foundation

Ingrid K. Glad

• Professor of Statistics, University of Oslo
• Director, Research Centre Integreat, Norwegian Centre for Knowledge-driven Machine Learning
• Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
• Fellow, International Statistical Institute (IS)
• Chair of the Board, The Abel Prize

Thors Hans Hansson

• Professor of Theoretical Physics, Stockholm University, Former Chairman of the Nobel Physics Committee

Ehud Keinan

• Benno Gitter Professor of Chemistry, Technion, Israel
• AAAS Fellow, ACS Fellow, Council Member at the Wolf Foundation, ICS President, IUPAC President

Ovid J. L. Tzeng

• Chair Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, National Taiwan Normal University & Taipei Medical University
• Board Member, Tang Prize Foundation

Xing Xu

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Life Science Prize Laureate
• Researcher, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhonghe Zhou

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Life Science Prize Laureate
• Researcher, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xi Dai

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate
• Chair Professor of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ding Hong

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate
• Deputy Director and Chair Professor, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Min Gao

• Olympic Games - Women's 3-metre Springboard Diving Champion

Qiang Ji

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Life Science Prize Laureate
• Professor, Hebei University of Geosciences

Xing Xu

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Life Science Prize Laureate
• Researcher, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhonghe Zhou

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Life Science Prize Laureate
• Researcher, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Zhong Fang

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate
• Researcher and Director of Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xi Dai

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate
• Chair Professor of Physics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Ding Hong

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Physical Science Prize Laureate
• Deputy Director and Chair Professor, Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Chi-Yuan Lu

• 2025 Future Science Prize - Mathematics and Computer Science Prize Laureate
• President/CTO, Macronix International Co. Ltd
• Academician, U.S. National Academy of Inventors
• Academician, The World Academy of Sciences for the Advancement of Science in Developing Countries

Warren Mok

• Music Director, World-renowned Tenor

Bing Bing Wang

• Soprano

Lorenzo Antonio

• Conductor

Siqing Lu

• Violinist

Li-Wei Qin

• Cellist

Xu Hong

• Pianist

Ashley Chui

• Mezzo-soprano

Apollo Wong

• Bass

Alex Tam

• Chorus Director

Anders Hui

• Orchestra Executive

Opera Hong Kong Orchestra

Opera Hong Kong Chorus

St. Paul's Co-educational College Primary School Choir

• St. Paul's Co-educational College Primary School Choir

Major Performing Arts Group

• Concert Partner