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Professor Yike GUO  
郭毅可

FHKEng [2021]

Provost, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Professional Qualification
  • Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering, UK
  • Member, Academia European
  • Fellow, British Computer Society, UK
  • Fellow, Chinese Association Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
Appointments & Affiliations
  • 中華人民共和國教育部科技委國際合作學部委員,
  • Advisor, Our Hong Kong Foundation
  • Member, Hong Kong Research Grants Council
  • Honorary Deputy Chairman, Chinese Association of Artificial Intelligence (CAAI)
  • Member, Big Data Expert Committee, China
  • Member, European Cloud Computing Expert Group, EU
  • Member, IEEE Computer Society Big Data Steering Committee
  • Deputy Chairman, Association of British Chinese Professors Steering Committee
Profile

Prof Yike Guo’s main research interests lie in the field of machine learning and large-scale data analysis management and has contributed to numerous major research projects and systems.In 2020, being the Principal Investigator of the research project “Building Platform Technologies for symbiotic Creativity in Hong Kong”, the project received funding of HK$52.8 million from Hong Kong Research Grants Council. Prof Guo currently is also the investigator of several major data science projects in UK and Europe including the €47M project of Idea-Fast in digital biomarker discovery for neurodegenerative diseases. Professor Guo has published over 250 articles. He had won the “Most Innovative Data Intensive Application Award” at the Supercomputing 2002 conference for Discovery Net, the Bio-IT World “Best Practices Award” for U-BIOPRED in 2014 and the “Best Open Source Software Award” from ACM SIGMM in 2017.

Education

PhD
Department of Computing
Best Thesis Award
Imperial College London, UK
1993

BSc
Computer Science
First Class
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
1985

Email

yikeguo@ust.hk