# Huanbo Luan

> Huanbo Luan is the Singapore-based co-founder and CEO of 6Estates, an enterprise AI company founded in 2014. A computer-science PhD and former NExT++ research leader, he connects research in language and information retrieval with business applications, private AI deployment and financial AI evaluation.

- **Role:** Co-founder & CEO at 6Estates
- **Organizations:** 6Estates, NExT++ Research Center, National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering, Shandong University, PhD in Computer Science, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Postdoctoral research in Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University
- **Known for:** Co-founded the NUS-Tsinghua spin-off 6Estates in 2014., Co-authored research published at ACL and AAAI., Led 6Estates at the September 2023 launch of its NVIDIA DGX BasePOD with H100 systems.

## Career timeline

- **2003** — Received a Bachelor of Engineering from Shandong University.
- **2008** — Received a PhD from the Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
- **2014** — Co-founded 6Estates; held research roles at NUS and NExT.
- **2015** — NUS described him as founding CTO of 6Estates and Deputy Executive Director of NExT.
- **2016** — Co-authored ACL work on neural relation extraction and AAAI work on knowledge graphs with entity descriptions.
- **2017** — Co-authored research on unsupervised bilingual lexicon induction at ACL.
- **2023** — As CEO, participated in the launch of 6Estates’ NVIDIA DGX BasePOD with H100 systems.
- **2025** — Co-organised the FinIR workshop and served in sponsorship leadership for ACM ICAIF in Singapore.
- **2026** — Co-authored the January FinDDR competition technical report; continued public advocacy for financial AI evaluation.

## Achievements

- Co-founded the NUS-Tsinghua spin-off 6Estates in 2014.
- Co-authored research published at ACL and AAAI.
- Led 6Estates at the September 2023 launch of its NVIDIA DGX BasePOD with H100 systems.
- Helped organise financial AI research events and co-authored the FinDDR competition technical report.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — 6Estates co-organised the NExT++ Responsible AI workshop at NUS, held 29 April to 1 May; Luan shared the company announcement on LinkedIn.
- **2026-01** — FinDDR competition technical report co-authored by Luan was posted on 9 January as a non-peer-reviewed preprint.
- **2025-11** — Luan served in sponsorship leadership for ACM ICAIF 2025 in Singapore.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://sg.linkedin.com/in/huanbo

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Last updated: 2026-10-14