Professor Yike Guo
Provost, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng)
Member of Academia Europaea (MAE)
Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (FHKEng)
Professor Guo Yike was appointed as the Provost with effect from 1 December 2022. He is concurrently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.
Professor Guo received his first-class honours degree in Computing Science from Tsinghua University in 1985 and obtained his PhD degree from Imperial College London in 1994. He has been a full Professor in the Department of Computing of Imperial College London since 2002. He was the Founding Director of the Data Science Institute at Imperial College London since 2014. In 2015 – 2020, Professor Guo was appointed as Non-Executive Dean of the School of Computer Engineering and Science in Shanghai University and he is now the Honorary Dean of the School.
Professor Guo is Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng), a Member of Academia Europaea (MAE), Fellow of Hong Kong Academy of Engineering Sciences (FHKEng), Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (FIEEE), Fellow of British Computer Society (FBCS), and Fellow of Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (FCAAI). Professor Guo is the editor-in-chief of Annual Reviews of Data Sciences (World Scientific), and the deputy editor-in-chief of CAAI Transections on Intelligent Systems (the official journal of CAAI), Machine Intelligence Research (Springer).
Professor Guo is a world leading computer scientist with research focuses on machine learning and data mining for large-scale scientific applications including distributed data mining methods, machine learning and informatics systems for biology, chemistry, geophysics, healthcare, environment, economy, finance, social media, creative design and art applications.
