Academic Staff

Prof. Zixing Song is currently an Assistant Professor (Presidential Young Scholar Scheme) in the Department of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (DSAI) at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Before joining PolyU, he was a Lecturer (UK Assistant Professor) at the University of Bristol. Prior to that, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Cambridge. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He also obtained his B.Eng. in Computer Science from Southeast University in China.

His research centers on data-centric graph machine learning and its application to drug design and broader AI4Science domains, driven by a vision of developing data-efficient, agentic and trustworthy models for social good. Currently, he serves as Vice Chair of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Task Force on Data-efficient Agentic Learning. He has also received several international awards, including the AAAI New Faculty Highlight, the Junior Research Fellowship at Wolfson College Cambridge, and the INNS Doctoral Dissertation Award.