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The OlympusMons Awards, launched by Huawei in 2019, are designed to steer research in foundational data storage theories, overcome key technical challenges, accelerate the industrial application of scientific breakthroughs, and foster collaboration between industry, academia, and research institutions. Since their inception, the OlympusMons Awards have attracted over 320 scholars from 12 countries. To date, 6 OlympusMons Awards and 18 OlympusMons Pioneer Awards have been presented. Indeed, the awards have become a leading and highly regarded accolade in the data storage industry.
As AI technologies continue to advance, traditional applications are evolving into intelligent, agent-based systems. Data is not only expanding rapidly in scale. The ways it is stored, managed, and utilized are also undergoing fundamental change. The OlympusMons Awards 2025 focus on addressing challenges for data processing in the age of AI, including high computational costs, complex protocol stacks, difficulties in building knowledge bases, the tradeoff between inference efficiency and accuracy, and rising data storage costs. The event invites researchers around the world to propose innovative solutions to address these problems.
The development and widespread application of AI is driving data hotter, increasing processing overheads. Research focused on new paradigms that use storage to supplement computing and eliminate repeated computing, ultra-high-density information recording, and innovative technologies of hierarchical large-memory systems are essential to building high-performance, large-capacity, and cost-effective storage systems.
The development of agentic AI requires storage systems to evolve from simple data repositories into AI data platforms for data management and utilization. Research focused on technologies such as high-quality knowledge bases and semantic information condensation are essential to building an agentic AI-native data foundation.
The 2025 contest has two OlympusMons Awards and five OlympusMons Pioneer Awards.
Huawei will establish technical communication channels with winners and provide them with research assistance.
OlympusMons Award
CNY1,000,000 ≈ USD141,979 (before tax)
OlympusMons Pioneer Award
CNY200,000 ≈ USD28,395 (before tax)
Entries will be scored on the technical and commercial value of their scientific research achievements and subsequent research plans proposed for one or more challenges.
Goal achievement: The degree to which the entry addresses the challenge. Innovativeness: Whether the entry applies new theories, methods, or techniques to address the challenge. Maturity: The readiness of the solution for production or real-world application. Applicability: Whether the entry can be commercialized. Extensibility: Whether the entry has the potential to be further developed. Economic benefits: Whether the entry provides social or economic benefits. Advisory Committee
Head of the Efficient Computing and Storage Group
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Dean of the Information Hub, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
ACM/IEEE Fellow
Vice President of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
IEEE Fellow
Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Director of Peng Cheng Laboratory
Peking University
Member of Academia Europaea
IEEE Fellow
Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chief Scientist of the Computing Platform, Huawei
Vice President and Fellow of the China Computer Federation
IEEE Fellow
Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Director of the National Supercomputer Centers in Guangzhou and Shenzhen
ISC Fellow
Sun Yat-sen University
Member of Academia Europaea
ACM/IEEE Fellow
Technical University of Crete
Member of Academia Europaea
ACM/IEEE Fellow
ETH Zurich
President of Minjiang University
IEEE Fellow
Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Tsinghua University
Member of Academia Europaea
ACM/IEEE Fellow
ETH Zurich
Dean of the Wuhan AI Research Institute
Executive Deputy Director of the Zidong.Taichu Large Model Center
Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Wuhan AI Research Institute
Fermat Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University
IEEE/AAIA/CCF Fellow
Deputy Director of the National Supercomputing Center in Guangzhou
Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Science Fund
Sun Yat-sen University
Vice Dean of the School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University
National Leading Talent
Vice President of Beihang University
IEEE Fellow
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering
Tsinghua University
December 26, 2025–April 30, 2026
May, 2026–June, 2026
August, 2026
Applicants/Teams need to fill in OlympusMons Awards application materials using this template
and send them to dataolympus@huawei.com before the filing deadline.
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