Teams · InferenceNet

The people behind InferenceNet.

A global initiative hosted by NTU GIFTS, with partner teams at HKU and SUFE, and open to collaborators worldwide.

01 / About NTU GIFTS

NTU GIFTS

The Global InferenceNet Initiative is hosted by the Global Institute of Finance, Technology, and Society (GIFTS) at Nanyang Technological University.

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Global Institute of Finance, Technology, and Society

Founding Director · Lin William Cong

A university-wide institute jointly anchored by Nanyang Business School and CCDS. GIFTS brings together research in AI, finance and the digital economy, connecting academic work with industry collaboration and policy.

Research clusters

  • AI and Technomics Engines
  • Society and Market Solutions
  • Global ADEFT Network
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Initiatives, centres and labs at GIFTS

  • Global InferenceNet InitiativeShared infrastructure for training, evaluating and deploying AI agents in economics, finance, business and the social sciences.
  • Economic World Models InitiativeAI-powered simulation of economies, markets, organisations and societies.
  • Autonomous Innovation & Research (AIR) InitiativeAI systems that support, accelerate and partly automate research and innovation.
  • Intelligent Economy InitiativeHow AI, autonomous systems and trusted digital infrastructure are transforming production, finance, commerce and governance.
  • Centre of AI for Social Science (AI4S2)AI methods for social science, business research and policy analysis.
  • Investment Intelligence and Innovation Lab (I³ Lab)AI-driven trading, quantimental investing and autonomous financial agents.
  • Digital Economy and Financial Technology Lab (DEFT Lab)Digital payments, blockchain-based systems, decentralised finance and AI for finance.

Anchoring schools

NTU · CCDS

College of Computing and Data Science

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
NTU · NBS

Nanyang Business School

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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02 / Leadership

Global InferenceNet Initiative

Listed alphabetically by surname.

Initiative at NTU GIFTS

03 / Student leaders

Challenge student leaders

Contributors

04 / Collaborating partners

Partner teams

Two partner teams work with the Initiative on subtracks and research: Ye Luo's team at HKU and Liwen Zhang's team at SUFE.

Collaborating partner

The University of Hong Kong · CAMO

HKU AI-Agents Lab

Lab for AI-Agents in Business and Economics

Lab Directors · Ye Luo & Xin Tong

Part of HKU's Centre for AI, Management and Organization (CAMO), the lab develops AI agents for business and economics. Its research spans multi-agent systems, specialist agents with domain expertise, and the effects of AI on people, firms and organizations.

  • Multi-agent systems
  • Domain-specific agents
  • AI & organizations

Related project

Econometric AI develops agents for econometric research and education, including analysis planning, code generation and execution. The lab's project page links to the public Econometrics-Agent code and InferenceNet dataset.

Visit the lab Explore HKU CAMO
Collaborating partner

Shanghai University of Finance and Economics · School of Statistics and Data Science

Liwen Zhang’s team

Financial large language models

Team lead · Liwen Zhang

Liwen Zhang’s research covers large language models for finance, including the Fin-R1 reasoning model and the FinEval evaluation benchmark. He initiated the SUFE-AIFLM-Lab, which brings together researchers from finance, statistics, artificial intelligence and computer science.

  • Financial LLMs
  • Evaluation benchmarks
  • Financial agents

Related subtrack

Subtrack 02 · Professional tasks. The team contributes complex business scenarios, including a finance demo and an HR demo. Release details are to be announced.

SUFE-AIFLM-Lab on GitHub Subtrack 02

05 / Contact

Get in touch

For questions about InferenceNet or collaboration, contact Yichen Guo.