A warm welcome to Dr Zixing Song, who has joined University of Bristol as Lecturer in Financial Technology. Zixing has a PhD (2024) in Computer Science and Engineering, from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, on trustworthy graph-based semi-supervised learning. He has also worked for 12 months as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Machine Learning Group at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he explored generative models for graph data. Zixing’s research interests include the trustworthy applications of Graph Neural Networks in finance.