# Chao Huang

> Chao Huang is director at Data Intelligence Lab at HKU (HKUDS). nanobot and Vibe-Trading on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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- Updated: 2026-10-28

Director, Data Intelligence Lab at HKU (HKUDS).

Chao Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Data Science at the University of Hong Kong, where he directs the Data Intelligence Lab. The lab publishes its open-source work as HKUDS, including nanobot, Vibe-Trading and LightRAG, and researches language models, autonomous agents and graph learning.

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chao-huang-208993177/
- X: https://x.com/huang_chao4969

## What Chao builds

- [nanobot](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/nanobot.md), graded B, 63/100, in Personal assistants. nanobot is an open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent written in Python by HKUDS. It runs as a gateway on the owner's machine and answers in a web UI, a terminal and chat apps, with tools, memory and scheduled automations. Director, Data Intelligence Lab at HKU (HKUDS), researched 2026-10-28.
- [Vibe-Trading](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/vibe-trading.md), graded B, 62.8/100, in Agent harnesses. Vibe-Trading is an open-source, self-hosted finance research agent from HKUDS. It turns plain-English questions into market data pulls, strategy code and backtests, through a CLI, a web UI, chat apps or its MCP server. Director, Data Intelligence Lab at HKU (HKUDS), researched 2026-10-28.

## Questions

### Who is Chao Huang?

Chao Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and the Institute of Data Science at the University of Hong Kong, where he directs the Data Intelligence Lab. The lab publishes its open-source work as HKUDS, including nanobot, Vibe-Trading and LightRAG, and researches language models, autonomous agents and graph learning.

### What does HKUDS make?

Anchor Terminal lists nanobot and Vibe-Trading from HKUDS. nanobot is an open-source, self-hosted personal AI agent written in Python by HKUDS. It runs as a gateway on the owner's machine and answers in a web UI, a terminal and chat apps, with tools, memory and scheduled automations.

### How are Chao's tools graded?

nanobot is graded B, 63 out of 100; Vibe-Trading is graded B, 62.8 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://nanobot.wiki/
- https://github.com/HKUDS
- https://github.com/HKUDS/.github/blob/main/profile/README.md
- https://sites.google.com/view/chaoh/
- https://vibetrading.wiki/
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/HEAD/README.md
- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/HKUDS/Vibe-Trading/HEAD/SECURITY.md

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