​Registration

Opening Remarks

- 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

Keynote Speech 1: Edge Intelligence: Revolutionizing Whole-Course Management of Chronic Diseases

- Qian Zhang, Chair Professor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences

Keynote Speech 2

- Mengdi Wang, Director and Professor, Center for AI Innovation, Princeton University; Member, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance

Keynote Speech 3: The AI Scientist: Redefining the Future of Scientific Discovery

- 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

Keynote Speech 4

- Le Cong, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine; Member, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance

Panel Discussion

Frontier Convergence of “AI+X” Technologies: Pioneering Interdisciplinary Explorations and Innovations

Moderator:

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

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- 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

- Le Cong, Assistant Professor of Pathology and Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine; 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

- Mengdi Wang, Director and Professor of the Center for AI Innovation, Princeton University; Member, Future Forum Young Scientist Innovation Alliance

- Qian Zhang, Chair Professor of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Fellow of the Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences

Photo Taking

2025 Asian Young Scientist Fellowship General Assembly 

Opening Remarks

HKU Representative

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

AYSF Representative

- Tim Cheng, Chair of 2025 Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; 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)

Life Science Session 

Opening by Committee Representative

- Hee-Sup Shin, Member of Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; Honorary Fellow, Institute for Basic Science (IBS)

Award Ceremony (including acceptance speech and group photo)

Physical Science Session

Opening by Committee Representative

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

Award Ceremony (including acceptance speech and group photo)

Mathematics Session 

Opening by Committee Representative

- Jong Hae Keum, Chair of 2025 Mathematics Sub-Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; Professor, School of Mathematics, Korea Institute for Advanced Study

Award Ceremony (including acceptance speech and group photo)

Computer Science Session 

Opening by Committee Representative

- 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

Award Ceremony (including acceptance speech and group photo)

​Group Photo for all Committee Chairs, Donors and Fellows

Keynote Address, including Q&A Session: Public education and the training of the next generation of scientists

- Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2013; Professor at UC Berkeley, PI at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Panel Discussion: Building the Asian Scientific Research and Innovation Ecosystem

Moderator:

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

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- Tim Cheng, Chair of 2025 Steering Committee, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; 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)

- 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

- Randy Schekman, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 2013; Professor at UC Berkeley, PI at Howard Hughes Medical Institute 

- Jenny Zeng, Founding Donor, Asian Young Scientist Fellowship; Founder and Managing Partner of MSA Capital; Member, Council of the Future Forum

Subject-Based Academic Seminars and Visits hosted by Faculties (By Invitation Only)

Life Science @William MW Mong Block

Physical Science @Main Library

Mathematics @Chow Yei Ching Building

Computer Science @Chow Yei Ching Building

Asian Young Scientist Fellowship Cocktail Reception (By Invitation Only)

Registration

​Welcome Message by Program Committee Co-Chair: 

- 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

Opening Remarks

- Man-Lei Lillian Cheong, Under Secy for Innovation, Technology and Industry, The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

Photo Taking

Keynote Speech: Perspective on The Past and Future of Computational Biology

- 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

Chemistry Session - Chemistry for Sustainable Development

10:15-10:20 Introduction by the Session Chair (Convener):

- 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

10:20-10:50 ASYMMETRIC CARBENE INSERTION INTO N−H Bonds

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

10:50-11:20 Keynote Speech 3: Illuminating Inert Bonds: LMCT Catalysis at the Frontiers of Sustainable Chemistry

- Zhiwei Zuo, Professor, Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences

11:20-11:50 Keynote Speech 3: Cu/Chiral Anionic Ligand-Catalyzed Enantioselective Radical Reactions

- Xinyuan Liu, Chair Professor and Department Head of Chemistry, Southern University of Science and Technology

Panel Discussion and Q&A 

Moderator: 

- Zuowei Xie

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- Xinyuan Liu, Qilin Zhou, Zhiwei Zuo

Life Science Session - Gut Microbiome: The Living Nexus of Human Health & Disease

13:30-13:35 Introduction by the Session Chair (Convener):

- 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

13:35-14:05 Keynote Speech 1: Understanding the Human Microbiome with Ecology, Machine Learning, and AI

- 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

14:05-14:35 Keynote Speech 2: Liver Inflammation in the Pathogenesis and as Therapeutic Target in MASH

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

14:35-14:55 Keynote Speech 3: Microbiome in GI Cancer: From Scientific Discoveries into Clinical Applications

- 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

14:55-15:15 Keynote Speech 4: The Ins and Outs of Intratumor Bacteria in Breast Cancer Malignancy

- Shang Cai, Principle Investigator, School of Life Sciences, Westlake University

Panel Discussion and Q&A 

Moderator: 

- Jun Yu

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- Shang Cai, Rob Knight, Herbert Tilg

Mathematics Session - Perspectives on Geometry

15:35-15:40 Introduction by the Session Chair (Convener):

- 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

15:40-16:05 Keynote Speech 1: A story of two geometries

- 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

16:05-16:30 Keynote Speech 2: A Brief Introduction to Algebraic Geometry

- Lawrence Ein, Distinguished LAS Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago; Fellow, American Mathematical Society (AMS)

16:30-16:55 Keynote Speech 3: A Journey through the Geometry of Einstein Metrics

- 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

16:55-17:20 Keynote Speech 4: Learning the Differential Equation of Tumour Density in a Breast Cancer Patient Under Treatment

- 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

Panel Discussion and Q&A 

Moderator: 

- Ngaiming Mok

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- Lawrence Ein, Arnoldo Frigessi, Song Sun, Chenyang Xu

Welcome Message by Program Committee Co-Chair:

- 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

Physics Session - Microscopic and Macroscopic World

09:35-09:40 Introduction by the Session Chair (Convener): 

- 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

09:40-10:05 Keynote Speech 2: The Frontiers of Fundamental Physics

- 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

10:05-10:30 Keynote Speech 2: A 40-Year Journey

- 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

10:30-10:55 Keynote Speech 3: Big and Small Meet in Dark Matter

- 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

10:55-11:20 Keynote Speech 4: Surveying the Universe

- Steven M. Kahn, Dean of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley

11:20-11:45 Keynote Speech 5: Neutrinos in the Greater Bay Area

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

Panel Discussion and Q&A 

Moderator: 

- Kam-Biu Luk

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- Reinhard Genzel, David Gross, Steven M. Kahn, Hitoshi Murayama, Yifang Wang

Computer Science Session - Exploring the Principles of Artificial Intelligence

13:30-13:35 Introduction by the Session Chair (Convener): 

- 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

13:35-14:00 Keynote Speech 1: Generative AI: from Virtual to Physical World

- 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

14:00-14:25 Keynote Speech 2: The Multimodal Future: Building Supersensing for Superintelligence

- Saining Xie, Assistant Professor, Courant Institute, New York University

14:25-14:50 Keynote Speech 3: Exploring Parsimony in Learning

- Qing Qu, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan

14:50-15:15 Keynote Speech 4: Understanding Visual Intelligence Through Physical Intrinsics

- Jiajun Wu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and, by courtesy, of Psychology at Stanford University

Panel Discussion and Q&A 

Moderator: 

- Yi Ma

Panelists: (Alphabetized by last name)

- Qing Qu, Jiajun Wu, Saining Xie, Jun Zhu

The Future Science Prize 10th Anniversary Special Session - How to Run a Successful Prize

Panel Discussion Moderator:

- 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

Panelists:

- 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

Registration

Opening Remarks

Science Talk Show – Life Science Prize Laureate Xing XU

Science Talk Show – Life Science Prize Laureate Zhonghe ZHOU

2025 Future Science Prize Laureates’ Dialogue with the Youth

Science Talk Show – Physical Science Prize Laureate Xi DAI

Science Talk Show – Physical Science Prize Laureate Hong DING

2025 Future Science Prize Laureates and Olympic Champion’s Dialogue with the Youth

Host's summary and group photo

Victoria Harbour Red Carpet (Grand Entrance Ceremony)

2025 Future Science Prize Awards Ceremony and Concert

Future Science Prize Science Gala (By Invitation Only)